by Alison Mello
Three waiters come over, two bringing our meals, and one carrying a bottle of wine. They fill our glasses and place our meals on the table then disappear to give us privacy. While the food looks delicious, I’m so nervous I can hardly eat. I force down as much as I can so as not to give anything away.
“This is delicious,” Skyler says. “Everything has been perfect this week. Thank you again, Logan. I couldn’t have asked for a better vacation.”
“It was my pleasure. I wanted you to be able to relax and enjoy yourself. This vacation has allowed us to do that and for me to spoil you a little too.”
She raises her eyebrows. “Spoil me a little? How about spoil me a lot. You have treated me to so many surprises, made love to me daily as promised, and now you’re finishing it off with this beautiful dinner on the beach. Logan, I couldn’t think of anything that would have made this trip better.”
He gives me a sideways grin. “I can think of one more thing that would make this trip absolutely perfect.”
“Oh yeah? What is that?”
I pull out the ring and get down on one knee. Skyler knows what I’m doing because her hands have already covered her mouth in shock.
“Skyler Jones, I love you so much and want to spend the rest of my life making you happy and spoiling you the way I have this week. I want you to live your life never having to worry about a single thing again. Will you please end this trip perfectly by making me the happiest man on this Earth and be my wife?”
She’s sobbing, but she nods. I slip the ring on her shaking left finger, and when I stand so does she, embracing me. We kiss and I’m thinking thank god she said yes. I ask her to turn around because there’s a photographer standing there that has been taking pictures of our entire dinner and proposal. The picture he’s taking right now is us on the beach with the sun practically set behind us and I’m sure it will be a gorgeous memory.
We sit back down when the waiters are removing our dinner plates and bringing our desserts.
“Logan, I can’t believe you planned all of this. It’s so magical. Thank you.”
“Skyler, I mean it. I want to marry you, and sooner rather than later. I don’t mind if we wait until after Sadie and Jonah so we don’t steal their thunder, but I want to be married soon.”
“I don’t care if we get married in the club with our friends. It’s not like I have family here. You and our club friends are my family, so it won’t take a ton of planning as far as I’m concerned.”
“Good. We’ll start planning as soon as we get back. Since we’re not planning a big elaborate wedding, it won’t matter if we marry before Jonah and Sadie, because their wedding will be quite different from ours.”
When we finished dessert, I take her by the hand to dance with her on the beach.
“You have changed my life forever and I’m so thankful.” I brush her hair from her face, place my hand at her nape, and pull her in for a kiss. She opens to me and deepens the kiss, and that’s when I notice the music is fading because the musicians are walking down the beach playing to give us our privacy. I pull her into our cabana and the lawn chair is laid flat with rose petals sprinkled all over it. I slip her dress down her body. She’s standing before me in a white thong and matching bra. I grin and for the sake of ritual I rip the panties off of her and she cracks up laughing.
I remove her bra. “Lie down, my love.”
She walks the few steps to the lawn chair and lies down. Luckily for me these lawn chairs are huge and we both fit on one. I kiss her slowly and passionately because I want her to truly feel the love I have for her tonight. I kiss my way up her jaw to her ear. I use the tip of my tongue to lick down the vein in her neck to her collarbone. I take her breast in my hand and massage it for a minute. My hand glides slowly up and down her body. “You have the softest skin. It’s flawless.” I take her nipple in my mouth, sucking it. I gently run the tips of my fingers down her stomach and to her folds. Her hips grind against my hand as I gently start rubbing her clit. I can feel it has hardened when I pinch it lightly between my thumb and forefinger.
She moans quietly. “Fuck, Logan.”
I laugh. “We will, love, I promise.” I dip my head to take her nipple again. This time I bite it and her hips jolt up to grind against my hand. I slide two fingers deep inside her and that’s all it takes to send her over the edge. Her muscles tighten around my fingers while I curl them deep inside her. I can’t wait for my cock to feel the same thing. I quickly pull my fingers out of her and stand to remove my shorts.
I straddle the chair with her legs wrapped around my waist, lean forward, and place one hand on each side of her. I slip my cock inside of her, picking my hips up slightly, I start sliding my entire length in and out of her.
“Yes, Logan. This feels so good.”
I continue hammering into her, fighting to maintain control until she releases, but I truly won’t last much longer. “Come on, Sky, let me have it.” And just like that she does. I hammer her a few more times as her tight little pussy milks me for all I’ve got. “Yes, Sky!” I scream and then collapse on top of her.
We lay on the lawn chair in silence for a few moments, enjoying our time together. Once we’ve caught our breath, I lean up on one arm.
“Do you like the ring I picked for you?”
She picks up her left hand and looks at it. “It’s beautiful.”
I bought her a one carat diamond with pink diamonds wrapped around it so it would match the promise ring she wears on her right hand.
“I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting all of this when you said you had one last surprise for me. I can’t wait to get home and tell our friends.”
“You can show them all at our Monday night dinner.”
“We’re still having it? I thought we were going to skip this week?”
“Nah, I just said that. I was hoping you would have said yes and then you would want to get together with them to show off your ring and talk about it, so I confirmed with them before we left.”
“You’re the best, Logan Michaels, and I’ll love you forever.”
“And I’ll love you forever, Skyler Jones.”
Epilogue
Skyler
This has been the most incredible year of my life, and for the first time ever I can say I’m truly happy. I came to LA in pursuit of a singing career and somewhere along the way realized my dreams had changed. I was offered the opportunity to record an album multiple times, but after spending time in Hawaii with Logan, everything changed. If I took a recording deal, that would mean tours and time away from Logan, and I can’t imagine my life without him.
As soon as we got back from Hawaii we told our friends of our engagement and we asked Jonah and Sadie if they would be mad if we married before them. Being the great friends they are, they had no problem with it.
We planned our wedding to be in the club the weekend before it reopened so we wouldn’t interfere with business. Mikey was Logan’s best man and Sadie was my maid of honor. We spent the day surrounded by great friends that we both consider our family. Mikey made a speech about saving Logan’s ass, and it was the hit of the night. Logan hired a wedding planner that had covered everything from decorations, to food and flowers, to making sure the club was cleaned up the day after the wedding. We danced, ate, and drank the night away. I even had a slow dance with Mikey without Logan losing it. We decided to hold off on a honeymoon since we had just gone on vacation. We needed to get Thrive back open, and we were going to have to finish the build on the new club and then start the hiring process.
The best wedding present ever was when the district attorney called us to let us know that both Billy and Troy pleaded guilty to attempted murder, arson, and bribery. They were going to jail for quite a while, and the DA promised to make sure that once they are released there will be a restraining order in place as part of their parole. Nick also pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe, but he only had to pay a fine and is on probation. He actually sent a letter to Logan and m
e apologizing for getting involved and explaining that he didn’t know they were planning to set off a bomb in the club. I’m not sure we believe him, but since it was a simple apology we just threw it out and forgot about it.
Sadie and Jonah got married a few months after us in a delightful ceremony. I was her matron of honor, and I wore the coral dress she wanted me to wear even though I wasn’t fond of it. Logan gave Jonah a huge bonus for helping him get the club up and running while we were in Hawaii, and he used the money to take Sadie there for their honeymoon. We talked to them about some of the great things we saw and did and showed them pictures we took. Logan even called the hotel and paid the upgrade fee for them to get the same room we did as a surprise. He’s a wonderful person with a kind heart, and every time he does something sweet like that I fall in love with him even more.
This summer we opened Club Heat, the latest strip club in LA, and it’s doing brisk business even though it has only been open a few months. I interviewed tons of choreographers looking for the perfect one to give our guests the best show possible. We wanted the show to be hot but have a classy feel to it as well, and it took a little while to find the right person. So far Clay is working out well. The funny thing about Clay is he’s gay, though somehow he manages to know what’s hot and classy with our female dancers. It’s beyond me how he does it, but I like that I don’t have to worry about him fooling around with my showgirls. I did tell him that if I caught him flirting with my husband even once he was out the door before he could spit out an apology. I winked and told him I was teasing him, but that part was only half true since I caught him checking out Logan’s ass a few times. I still chuckle about it when I think about his reaction. I know it’s probably mean but hey whatever, it worked and he’s no longer looking at Logan’s ass.
Picking dancers and staff we could trust was probably the hardest part of opening the club. We held two days of initial auditions and then narrowed it down and held one more round before we chose what we needed. It was impressive to see the looks on Logan, Mikey, Jonah, and Shane’s faces when I asked them to sit in with me and rate the girls. They were surprised but tried to play it cool, and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one to have kick ass sex those three nights. Those boys were so worked up watching the girls dance I think they all ran home to fuck their girlfriends or wives. All but us, of course. Logan took me into our soundproof office where he fucked me twice; once bent over his desk, and I rode him once while he sat in his office chair. I think the only male not affected by the auditions was Clay. He sat there like he was bored, but since he has to work with them he needs to be equally as happy with who we pick.
I’m quite confident that day led to me being pregnant, though how I don’t know. I never stopped taking the pill, and we have been having sex for almost a year and a half with no other protection. Apparently it was my time, because now I walk around the strip club with a small belly that’s starting to show. Although I’m so glad I didn’t get morning sickness, I’m tired as hell and I’m only four months in. I have no idea how I’m going survive the rest of this pregnancy.
Logan is ecstatic about the baby and can’t wait for it to be born. He has been handling me with kid gloves. I have to keep reminding him I’m not going to break. At this point I just want to find out the sex. I need to start planning. We’re going to turn the second bedroom upstairs into a nursery, and I want to know if I’m painting it pink or blue.
The best part of being pregnant right now is Sadie is pregnant too, so we’ll have our babies about the same time and they’ll grow up to be best friends, like their parents. She’s having a girl, and I kind of hope I do too, although I’ll be happy to have a healthy baby. I thank her all the time for pulling me out of the house that night, and of course she eats it up. She knows if it wasn’t for her I may not have met Logan, and although my dreams have changed since that night, they may never have become a reality.
The End
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Acknowledgments
I would like to first thank Mr. Mello for all of his love and support. He’s constantly there for me, talking me through scenes or different chapters of the book to help me come up with the best story possible. He deals with my constant obsessing about my characters, plots, the process we go through to get a book published, and he listens to me without complaint. I also want to say thank you for all of your hard work. You do an amazing job of supporting our family so I can be home with our son and embark on this journey. I’m so proud of you and the work you do, so thank you and I love you!
My buddy DJ is amazing. Although he’s only nine, he’s constantly asking me about which book I’m working on or if I’m writing or editing. I love when he tells me that he wants to write a kids’ book so he can be like his mama. DJ, I love you to the moon and back, bud, and I thank you for your patience with Mama while I’m editing and am focused on getting something done.
About the Author
Alison Mello is a wife and stay at home mom to a wonderful little boy. She lives with her amazing family in Massachusetts. She loves playing soccer, basketball and football with her son.
After having her son, Alison started reading again and fell in love with Contemporary Romance. Reading made her happy and gave her something to do when she had downtime. As she started to read more, she started to noticed things she really enjoyed in a book and things she didn’t. She began to have ideas for writing one of her own. One day she literally woke up and started writing. She realized that if there was ever a time for her to write, it was now. She had a part time job to give her something to do. The hours at work were slow and she was bored with what she was doing, so while her son was off enjoying his friends over summer vacation she got started.
Alison finished the first book in two weeks and decided that she really enjoyed writing, so she kept going. She already had ideas in mind for books two and three, so she kept writing. That is how the Learning to Love Series was born. Somewhere along the line, one of my Beta readers convinced me that Michael, a character from Finding Love, needed his own story. That is when Alison added the fourth and final book. Alison hopes you enjoy her books as much as she enjoyed writing them.
She’s so glad she started this writing journey and hopes you will stay with her for the ride. Chasing Dreams is scheduled to release in April and the first two books of the Love Conquers Life series will be out this summer!
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