The only sounds in the room were running water, heavy breathing and the sound of flesh smacking against flesh.
Dean felt the start of Mack’s orgasm rippling along his shaft. He moved his mouth from her lips and clamped down onto one of her breasts. She was in so much ecstasy, as she squeezed his penis so hard that she took him with her into the realms of unadulterated pleasure.
They rested forehead to forehead, still breathing heavily. “I love you, Mack.”
She looked up into Dean’s eyes, and with a smile, said, “I love you too.”
Chapter 35
“Good morning.” Mack started to stroke his erection.
Dean roared with laughter. “Morning. Have I told you lately how much I love you?” He rolled her onto her back.
“Yes, but feel free to tell me again.”
Dean became serious and rested his elbows at each side of Mack’s face, between his hands. “I love you, Mack, so much.”
She ran her fingers along Dean’s lips. “I love you too, always.” Smiling, she pulled him down on top of her, wrapped her legs around his waist, as he slipped inside her, and made very slow, passionate love to her.
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Mack was sitting outside with a cup of coffee, waiting for Thomas to bring Lucas home, and for Dean to shave and change clothes.
Seeing a car pull into the drive, Mack put her cup down on the step. She didn’t recognize the vehicle, but no sooner had she stood up to check it out, her sister was running towards her for a hug.
“Mack!” She threw her arms around Mack’s neck.
She hugged Mack back. “Melinda, what are you doing here? You said you would text me if you got an earlier flight.”
“Sorry, Mack, but it was a standby flight, and we just had time to get on board. Where’s my little Lucas?”
Mack was still a bit stunned. “He’s with Thomas, but he’ll be back soon. Wow, I can’t believe you’re here.”
Melinda held Mack at arm’s length. “You’re at home here,” she stated.
Mack grinned at her sister. “Yes, I am… Wait until you meet Dean later. He’s the hot guy who’s renting next door.” She laughed and headed inside, leaving her sister to follow.
As Melinda followed Mack inside, she couldn’t work out whether Mack was teasing, or being truthful. “Are you sure there’s a hot guy named Dean living next door?”
“Positive. You’ll like him, but he’s mine, so no flirting, sis!” Mack pointed a finger towards Melinda.
Melinda was the biggest flirt going, and Mack always wondered how Daniel managed to get her to behave. They’d been married seven years, and still seemed to be in love. Daniel was older than her sister by five years, but acted much older, which was probably what Melinda needed to calm her down.
“Sis, where’s Daniel?” Mack asked as she suddenly realized her brother-in-law was missing.
“Finishing a call on his cell, in the hire car,” Melinda replied, going to have a look around the cottage.
Mack headed towards the backdoor. “I’ll be back in a minute, Mel.”
“Okay.”
Mack walked out into the yard and spotted Daniel still sitting in the car.
As he climbed out, Daniel spotted Mack walking in his direction. “Hey, sis!”
“Hey, Dr Daniel!” Mack laughed and ran around to the driver’s side of the car to give him a big hug and a quick kiss on the lips.
As far as Mack was concerned Daniel wasn’t her brother-in-law, but her brother, the one she had always wanted. He also treated her like his sister.
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Unbeknown to Mack, Dean had seen their little interlude at the car and was pissed, wondering what the hell she was playing at, because an hour ago, she’d been naked in bed with him. So who the hell was that guy?
Trying to decide whether to go around to Mack’s, or stay there and fume, he picked up his keys and stormed next door to make a claim on his woman, because she belonged to him.
Dean walked straight into Rose Cottage without even knocking. He spotted Mack standing near the coffee pot, walked straight over to her, took her face in his hands and kissed the very life out of her. He lifted his head, grinning down at Mack, who appeared to be having a little trouble focusing.
“Wow, do you greet everyone like that?” Melinda asked, wiggling her eyebrows.
Dean had just noticed the woman in the kitchen, starting to realize perhaps he’d misunderstood the hug and kiss outside.
“Err...” He looked slightly sheepish.
“I think someone saw something outside and got the wrong idea!” Daniel stated, trying not to laugh.
Mack put her arm around his waist. “Dean, I’d like you to meet my sister, Melinda, and her husband, Daniel.”
Dean leaned in to shake their hands. “I think I did get the wrong idea.”
“Thought so.”
“Guys, this is Dean,” she looked at her sister, “he’s the guy I’m in love with.”
Well, that was probably the first time ever Melinda had been left speechless.
Dean noticed Daniel looking oddly at him. “Is anything wrong?”
Daniel sat down beside his wife. “What are your intentions towards Mack?”
Melinda looked towards her husband in surprise. “Daniel, you’re not her father.” Melinda swatted him on the shoulder.
“Her father isn’t here right now, so as her brother I think I should act in his place.”
Mack tried not to laugh at the look on Daniel’s face. Dean put a hand on her arm. “I’m in love with Mack, and my intentions are no one’s business but ours, but I’ll tell you that I don’t plan on letting her go.”
“Okay, now that’s settled, let’s have coffee and cake and wait for Thomas and Lucas to appear,” Mack said, relieved. Least said, soonest mended, she thought to herself.
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Thomas entered the kitchen first, with a bunch of carnations in his hand for Mack. “To the lady of my heart,” he said with a wink.
“Mommy!” Lucas shouted as he walked in behind Thomas. “I didn’t know you were coming. Where’s Daddy? I need to tell him I went playing poker in the Irish Pub in town.” He launched himself into his mother’s arms for a big hug and kiss.
“Daddy is out with Dean, but he’ll be back soon.” She put him down and Lucas ran into the sitting room, shouting for his mother to join him. “Calm down, Lucas. I’ll be there shortly.”
Melinda walked over to Mack, laughing. “Wow, it seems like you have been busy, Mackenzie Louise Harper. Just how many more guys are going to be coming knocking on the door, proclaiming their love for you?”
She nudged her sister with her hip. “That would be telling!” Mack teased.
Mack walked over to Thomas and took the flowers from him, giving him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Thomas blushed.
She suddenly remembered it was the first time Thomas and Melinda had met. “Thomas, this is my sister, Melinda.”
“I gathered that, Mack.” Then he moved over towards Melinda and held his hand out to her. “Nice to meet you. You have a good boy there. I’m going to miss him.” Thomas turned away and walked into the front room to join Lucas on the Wii, wiping his eyes secretly as he went.
Mack followed Thomas with her eyes and turned to her sister. “I think they’ll both really miss each other, Melinda.”
“Perhaps he could come and visit us in Boston, it isn’t too far away.” Melinda suggested.
“I’ve thought about that, and was wondering if perhaps I could have Lucas every, maybe, third weekend, and bring him up here? I think they would both love that. Plus, it will give you and Daniel some free time.”
“Mack, that would be great. But what about Dean?”
“I love him, Mel, and he says he loves me and I believe him. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but we both live in Boston, and I believe we’ll be together, so we both can bring him up here.”
“Just be careful, Mack, you haven’t known him for long, and I don
’t want to see you get hurt.”
“Says she, who met, fell in love, and married Daniel, all within ten days. Without telling anyone until the deed was done, I might add.”
“Okay, okay, not the best person to give advice, but… that was seven years ago, and I still love him, Mack.” Melinda took hold of Mack’s hand.
“I know, Mel, thank you. Let Thomas take Lucas fishing this afternoon before he leaves, if he’ll go that is, now that you guys are here, he may not want to. We can hang out at the beach with the guys. Besides, I want to tell you a love story.”
“Oh, this sounds… interesting.”
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Mack was walking hand in hand with Dean to the beach behind her sister and brother-in-law, and it filled Mack with so much love that she stopped walking and looked into Dean’s eyes. “Kiss me, Dean.”
“Anytime, babe.” Then his lips came down onto hers with a possessiveness she’d only ever experienced with him.
She moved in close to him, put her hands into his hair and massaged his scalp as the kiss deepened. Dean growled and grabbed hold of Mack’s hips, pulling her in close enough to feel what she did to him.
Melinda and Daniel turned around. “Get a room!” Melinda shouted.
Out of the blue, Melinda suddenly turned and engaged her husband in a very hot lip lock.
Mack and Dean pulled apart, laughing, and when they saw Melinda and Daniel, Dean let out a wolf whistle. Dean took hold of Mack’s hand pulling her forward. “Come on, let’s go down to the beach and make out.”
“Oh my God, please tell me you aren’t going to be…. well, you know.” Melinda trailed off, waving her arms around.
Dean replied, laughing, “We just might!”
As they carried on walking to the beach, they were still holding hands. Mack was excited being here with Dean, along with her sister and Daniel. She certainly couldn’t wait to see how Dean reacted, once she removed her shorts and top.
She watched her sister and husband as they stopped a bit in front of them. They seemed to be having a ‘discussion’, but about what, Mack couldn’t make out, as they were whispering.
Sometimes she found it hard to believe Melinda and Daniel were a couple. Her sister was the flighty one, and Daniel the straitlaced doctor.
Once, when both Mack and Melinda were having a night on the town, they’d gotten rather drunk and Mack had asked her sister what Daniel was like in the sack. Instead of censoring her reply, she had given Mack more details than she actually needed, or wanted to know. Luckily her sister hadn’t remembered, but unfortunately Mack had.
Dean let go of Mack’s hand, having arrived at the beach. He then started to strip, first his t-shirt came off, showing his tight abs, then his jeans, to reveal a pair of swimming shorts, which he wore low on his hips. Both Mack and Melinda stood frozen to the spot.
Mack came back to her senses, licked her lips, then nudged her sister. “Hey, he’s mine. Eyes off, Mel.” Just as she said that, Daniel also started to strip. Mack was dazzled. “Wow, Daniel, when did you get that body and tattoo? You do realize I won’t be able to look at you as a conservative doctor anymore.”
Dean laughed and walked over to put his arm around Mack’s neck. “Stop ogling your brother-in-law.”
“Jealous?”
He gave Mack a hard kiss. “Yes!”
“Then I don’t suppose you want to know that I was ogling you first as you stripped.”
“I can carry on if you like?” Dean teased.
“Don’t you dare. Later, in private. I’ll take you up on the offer.”
“You want to go for a swim?”
“Maybe later. I’ve told Melinda I want to tell her a love story, so I’m going to tell her about Rose and Jacob.”
“Okay. I spoke to my grandfather before I came back to the cottage this morning, and he’ll make sure they’re both home tomorrow morning. He said that they both can’t wait to meet the woman who has finally won my heart.”
She reached up and kissed him briefly on the lips. “That is so sweet.”
As she finished talking, she unbuttoned her shorts, slid them down her legs and kicked them to one side. Seeing the look on Dean’s face, she slowly continued to take her t-shirt off and tossed it over to him. He was standing in front of her, looking at her from the tips of her toes to the top of her head, then he met her eyes.
“You like?” Mack asked with a saucy grin and hands on her hips.
He groaned. “You little minx. I’m going for a swim to cool off.” Then he ran to the ocean, with Daniel following.
Mack lay down next to her sister, while Melinda watched the retreating backs of both guys. “He is one hot guy, Mack. God, when he took his shirt off, I nearly fainted.”
“Melinda!”
“What!”
“You’re drooling over my guy. Stop it, anyway what about Dr Daniel? You’ve been hiding the real guy from me.”
Melinda changed the subject. “Tell me this love story? I’m intrigued.”
“Hmm, I know what you’re doing and I’ll let you off the hook for now.” She took a deep breath. “It all started when I found a diary written in 1947 by Rose, Thomas’ sister. It’s her love for a man named Jacob Evans, who just happens to be Dean’s grandfather.”
Mack then spent over an hour telling her sister all about Rose and Jacob, and that she’d hopefully be able to rest, once Jacob knew the whole story, even though it was heart breaking.
Chapter 36
Mack was all worked up while she waited for Thomas and Lucas to appear. She was really worried about Thomas. She knew he would be upset with Lucas leaving after dinner with his parents.
Just as she decided to keep busy and clean the kitchen, Dean walked in wearing a pair of well-worn jeans and pale blue shirt. Wow! What a distraction.
He noticed Mack looking upset and walked around the table taking her face in his hands. “You want to get naked?” He kissed her.
“What is it with you two? Two seconds later and you would have had her on the table,” Melinda interrupted, walking into the kitchen.
She winked at Dean. “No, we already did that,” Mack told her sister, laughing.
“Oh my God, did I need to know that?”
“Need to know what?” Daniel came up to his wife, putting his arms around her.
“Nothing. Let’s set the table, the food will be here soon, hopefully at the same time as Thomas and Lucas.”
Mack whispered. “You look hot. I’m going to show you later just how hot!” Mack walked past Dean and rubbed against the straining erection he was trying his best to hide.
He shuddered. All he wanted to do was grab hold of her and go some place quiet. She drove him crazy with her sassy mouth and sexy body.
Not long after, both Thomas and Lucas arrived, and shortly afterwards, the food finally arrived as well.
Dinner was eaten with everyone slightly squashed up. The table was made for four people, but had six seated around. It was cozy.
“Lucas, did you catch anything this afternoon?” Daniel asked his son.
Lucas had a mouth full of food and grinned. “We caught three more yellow perch. Thomas is going to clean them, and freeze them, to eat when I come to visit.”
Everyone went quiet. “That’s great, Lucas, and I hope I get to eat some with you when I bring you to visit.” Mack wanted to reassure Thomas that Lucas would be back.
“Of course you can. Will you make a cake for us? Thomas said it would be the blind something, when I asked him to bake you a cake.”
Thomas laughed. “I said it would be a bit like the blind leading the blind, if Lucas and I baked a cake.”
“Oh, Lucas, leave the cake baking to Auntie Mack, okay?”
“Okay, Mommy.” Then he grinned. “Granny said…” before he could finish Mack shoved the ice cream in front of him and his mother shoved a piece of chocolate in to his mouth. Mack glanced at Dean, his face alight with mirth, trying not to laugh aloud.
Lucas not wantin
g to be outdone, swallowed the chocolate, grinned at Thomas, then said, “Mommy, all Granny said, was that she gets some herbs from the Jamaicans at the market, and puts them in her cakes. Mrs Green was there one day and she said they were the best cakes this side of Boston, but grandma never lets me eat them. I don’t know why, but she said I’m not old enough to take an aphrodizzyache, no that’s not right. It sounded something like that though,” he finished with a puzzled expression.
“Aphrodisiac,” Daniel supplied, which broke the silence that had followed Lucas’ little speech.
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Once all the dishes were clean, Melinda, Daniel, and Lucas were ready to leave. Mack walked over to stand beside Thomas and leaned in close to him. “You’ll see him again real soon, Thomas. That I can promise you.”
He took hold of Mack’s hand. “Thank you. You’re a kind young woman, and if you were my daughter, I would be proud with how you turned out.”
Mack had watery eyes. “Thomas, that is so sweet. Thank you. You’ve brought tears to my eyes, again.” She tried to wipe them away before anyone else noticed.
“Auntie Mack.” Lucas threw himself into her open arms.
“Bye, Lucas. I’ll see you soon, okay? Will you say hello to Mickey Mouse for me?” Mack didn’t want to let him go.
“Will do,” he replied, and moved onto Thomas. Lucas wrapped his little arms around his waist as Thomas bent to hold him, kissing him on the head. “I’ll miss you.”
“I’ll miss you too, kid,” Thomas replied in a rough voice.
Dean walked over to Mack and wrapped her up tight in his embrace. “You okay?”
Mack just nodded her head, moving out of Dean’s embrace, but still felt him close, as she hugged her sister and brother-in-law. Then she watched them leave with Lucas.
Chapter 37
Mack and Dean called to check on Thomas first thing the following morning, before driving into Boston. Thomas hadn’t showed up for breakfast, but they discovered he was well, although a bit down, with Lucas having departed last night.
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