Total pages in book: 65
Estimated words: 62314 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 312(@200wpm)___ 249(@250wpm)___ 208(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 62314 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 312(@200wpm)___ 249(@250wpm)___ 208(@300wpm)
There were cute guys everywhere. I might have been young, but I wasn’t stupid. I knew who flirted with me. But none of them were Colton. Sure, some guys were closer to my age than him, but they just seemed like boys. Just like the guys back at college. I wondered if they would spank me or tie me up. I wondered if they’d make me call them sir when naked. I didn’t think so. I didn’t think I’d get wet for them either. None of them would compare to Colton. None of them did.
That was why, when the song was over, it was Colton my nipples got hard for as he cut through the crowd to get to me. Ever since I woke up from my nap, I’d gotten mixed signals from him. He’d barely touched me, but he couldn’t stop looking at me. He’d been watching me like a hawk since we got to the bar, and now he was heading my way. I licked my lips, wishing he’d carry me off like he had earlier in his kitchen.
But this was Audrey’s bachelorette party. No matter how many orgasms I craved, they’d have to wait.
“Hey,” I said. He stood so close our bodies almost touched, his hot from… from him being hot. His gaze was almost penetrating, reminding me of when he’d lifted me down from the sign by the swollen creek. As if I was the only person in the world. He sniffed, then growled. Or I thought it was a growl over the music.
“Let’s get a drink.”
I nodded. He reached for my elbow, but like earlier, seemed to rethink it and just held out an ushering hand to indicate the path to the end of the bar. I looked back, and Audrey and Boyd were right behind us. Boyd talked a guy off a stool and set it before Audrey, so she could sit. I hadn’t gotten used to the idea that Audrey was pregnant.
The kind of family I’d always wanted—two people who loved each other obsessively having a baby that would be the center of their world—was right in front of me. Growing. I was crazily jealous of what she had, but she deserved it. After my dad being a dick and ditching her mom and Audrey having to pretty much raise herself and take care of her depressed mom… Yeah, the tiara she wore should have been made of diamonds.
I leaned my side against the bar, and Colton loomed beside me, his foot resting on the brass rail as he flagged down the bartender.
“Where are the others?” I asked.
Audrey tilted her head, the tiara teetering a bit as she did so, and looked around. Raising her arm, she pointed toward the back. I had no idea how I missed Becky on top of the mechanical bull. It was whipping her back and forth, but she was holding on, her free hand swinging over her head. I couldn’t see Leigh or Anna in the crowd, but I assumed they were with her.
“She’s a riot,” I told Audrey.
She nodded, pushing her glasses up. “Amazing nurse, too. She’s much better at riding that bull than I am.”
“You rode it?” I asked, staring at my staid sister and back at Becky who was whooping it up. “Why have I never heard about this?”
“She was pretty good, too,” Boyd said, kissing Audrey’s temple.
Audrey grinned but rolled her eyes. “One time,” she clarified. “Well, my days of bull riding are like Boyd’s. Over.”
The bartender came by with bottles of water and set them before us. Colton screwed off a cap and handed one to me. I frowned at it. “I wanted another lemon drop,” I said. I wasn’t planning on getting drunk, but it wasn’t a bachelorette party without a little alcohol. “I’m drinking for Audrey.”
Just then, the waiter came back with my preferred drink—which showed Colton had been watching me closely—and a Shirley Temple, which Audrey grabbed right up and pulled a cherry from the glass and popped it in her mouth.
“You’ll have your drink, but the water, too.”
Well. I guess he did have a Daddy streak in him. Bossy, but sweet.
I took my drink and looked up at him through my lashes. I had no idea how to respond to that other than, okay or yes, please, so I stayed quiet.
“So, Colton, when do you have to be back to base?” Audrey asked.
I stilled, and I felt oddly deflated. I hadn’t forgotten this was temporarily, but I wanted to. He was going back to North Carolina. I only had a few weeks until fall semester started… in a different time zone. On the opposite side of the country from him. In no fantasy world could I imagine that what we started this week could become anything. At least not right now.