Total pages in book: 105
Estimated words: 102781 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 514(@200wpm)___ 411(@250wpm)___ 343(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 102781 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 514(@200wpm)___ 411(@250wpm)___ 343(@300wpm)
I clicked the muted TV off. “Why don’t you come with us?”
She looked as surprised as I was that I’d invited her. “To Disney? With you and Lucas?”
“Yeah. Why not? You can get your dork on at the new Star Wars ride, and Lucas will have someone to go on spinny shit with.”
“You don’t go on spinning rides?”
“Nope. In eighth grade, I was dying to make out with Katie Lanzelli. I took her to the town fair and had planned to suck her face on the Ferris wheel. Right before we went on, I went on the Gravitron. Puked my guts out after I got off. Couldn’t very well subject her to kissing me after that. So I quit spinning rides that day.”
Annalise chuckled. “Your perversion knows no limits. It even affects your trips to Disney.”
“What do you say? Wanna come?” I let my hand on her leg travel higher and stroked the sensitive skin on the inside of her thigh, right next to her lips. “I’d have to get you a separate room because of Lucas, but maybe I could get one next door so I could slip out after he falls asleep and slip inside of you.”
“See? Pervert. All roads lead to and from sex.” She smiled. “I’d love to go. But are you sure? I don’t want to interrupt your time with Lucas.”
The more we talked about it, the more I liked the idea of her coming. “Positive. He’ll be glad to have someone other than me to talk to. Trust me.” I looked at her. “Plus, I want you to come.”
Annalise lit up, practically glowed, as she nodded her head. Then she climbed on top of me, and I lit up, too.
***
“What composer scored the songs in the movies?”
“Easy. John Williams.” Annalise wiped sprinkles off her lip with a napkin.
Lucas looked down at his phone and swiped again. He’d been quizzing her with all the online trivia he could find since we’d gotten in the car this morning.
“What color was Luke Skywalker’s light saber in the first two movies?”
“Blue.”
“What about in Return of the Jedi?”
“Green.”
I shook my head. “Why would they change the color of the light saber? And, a better question, why do you know the answers to all this crap?”
Annalise licked a drip from her ice cream cone, and my dick twitched—in the middle of fucking Disney.
“He lost the blue one in a duel with Darth Vader in Cloud City. There was a big uproar over the reason his light saber was green in Return of the Jedi. The original movie posters had him holding a blue saber. Some people say they changed the color because the fight scene background was a blue sky, while others think there’s a deeper meaning—like the filmmakers trying to show Luke had become his own man.”
I chuckled. “Ah, got it. So they wanted to sucker parents into buying more light sabers by changing the color.”
Lucas was fascinated with Annalise’s Star Wars trivia capability. Me, I didn’t mind sitting around just watching the two of them—as long as she kept licking that ice cream cone. I was damn happy we’d gotten those adjoining rooms now.
After we finished our dessert, we hit a few more rides before calling it quits for the night. It had been one long-ass day—sex twice this morning, a long run, driving up to L.A., then going on a shitload of rides when we got here. But while I was wiped, Lucas and Annalise seemed to still have plenty of energy.
“Can we go in the pool?” Lucas asked as we got off the tram at our hotel stop.
I looked at my watch. “It’s almost 9:30.”
“So?” He frowned.
“Annalise probably didn’t even bring a suit.”
She grinned. “Actually, I did.”
“Please?” Lucas shot me puppy-dog eyes.
“I can take him if you’re too tired.”
“No. It’s fine.” I pointed at Lucas. “A half hour. That’s it.”
“Okay!”
I grumbled to Annalise as Lucas ran ahead to the hotel’s front door. “It better at least be a bikini if I have to go into a Disney piss bucket.”
Her smile sparkled. “Complain all you want, but I see the truth in your eyes. You’d do anything that kid asked you to, and you love every minute of watching him enjoy himself.”
She wasn’t exactly wrong. Without thinking, I slid my hand into hers and finished the walk to the hotel lobby hand in hand. The screwed-up thing was, I had no idea I’d even done it. It just felt…right. Annalise didn’t seem to notice either, or if she did, she didn’t say anything.
Just the same, I let go to open the door and shoved my hands into my pockets after that.
***
“He’s a great kid.”
Annalise and I sat across from each other in the bubbling hot tub, twenty feet away from the pool. A bunch of kids had been organizing a water volleyball game when we came outside, and they’d asked Lucas to join in. So we’d gotten a reprieve from getting into the cold piss bucket and came to soak in the designated over-eighteen hot tub. Lights lit up the pool area, so we could still keep an eye out from a distance, yet we were far enough away to not look like we were babysitting him.