“So? I’ve hardly talked to her. I mean, we’ve gotten a bit closer these last few weeks, but before that, I barely said two words to her, except for hello and see ya around.”
Whitley looked back out on the dance floor. I looked over my shoulder, praying to God they had stopped dancing. The music had changed to a slower song, and Layton was still dancing with Wesley.
Stupid ass. What in the hell is wrong with him?
“What in the hell does he think he’s doing? He’s danced with her for three songs now,” Whitley said.
“Three?” I said with almost a gasp.
Whitley looked pissed and started to make her way out to the dance floor.
I grabbed her arm and said, “Whitley, calm the hell down and just think about this, okay? You’re married to him and about to have his baby. He’s known Wesley for…how long? She is his best friend’s sister. I’m sure it is all innocent.”
“Oh, hell no! What is she doing here?”
Shit! Shit! Shit! I was hoping we could have one event where Olivia wouldn’t try to come between Layton and Whitley. I let out a breath as I turned around, and immediately, I saw her…talking to Reed.
“Anna,” I whispered. The panicked feeling hit me so hard that I had to hold on to Whitley to keep my balance. “What’s she doing here?”
“That’s what I just asked. I’m going to have to talk with Kevin about who he invites to these things. Everyone in the damn county is here!” Whitley shook her head and turned toward the truck.
“Wait, where in the hell do you think you’re going?” I asked.
She stopped and turned around with a smile. “I’m going to put on my bikini. I might be pregnant, but my ass still looks good in a two-piece.”
I let out a giggle and directed her to Reed’s truck. “Please. Bitch, have you already forgotten? When I pack, I come prepared. I have two itty-bitty bikinis in Reed’s truck.”
Whitley gave me that evil, crooked little smile of hers as we made our way over to Reed’s truck.
Fifteen minutes later, we were walking out from behind a group of trees where we had changed, and we were strutting our New York City–girl asses, dressed in bikini tops, short-ass shorts, and our cowboy boots.
As we walked up, Layton was leaning against a table, talking to Wesley.
“Houston, we may have us a serious problem,” I said.
“And Houston knows just how to fix it,” Whitley said as she walked toward Layton.
The moment he laid his eyes on her, anyone could see how in love with her he was. Whitley walked right up to him and pushed her body into his, and then she kissed the living shit out of him.
Oh yeah, I taught her that shit. I let out a giggle as I watched Layton practically melt in Whitley’s arms.
One quick look at Wesley, and my suspicions were confirmed. She was glaring at Whitley.
Time to have some fun.
I walked toward Wesley and bumped her on the arm. “Hey, future sister-in-law.”
She quickly looked at me and plastered on a fake-ass smile. “Hey, Courtney. Congratulations again. Anyone can see how much you and Reed love each other.”
I smiled and said, “Thank you, Wesley.” I peeked over at Layton and Whitley, who were still pawing each other all up. “I’ve never before seen a couple so madly in love like Layton and Whit. They light up a room with their love.”
I slowly looked back at Wesley. I was pretty sure she had steam coming from her ears.
“To be honest, I never really thought Layton was the settling-down-and-marrying kind with his player ways,” she said.
Interest piqued. “Player ways?” I asked.
She started to make her way over to where everyone was playing horseshoes. “Between you and me, of course, Layton was always a bit of a player. I mean, he never cheated on Olivia, but after they broke up, he must have hooked up with a dozen girls, each one hoping to capture his heart.”
“Really? Were you one of them?” I asked.
“Excuse me?” she asked, trying to seem offended.
“Were you one of those hookups?”
“God, no! I mean, I’ve always liked Layton, but no, we’ve never been anything more than friends.”
I glanced up and saw Anna walking toward Reed. I’d totally forgotten about Anna talking to Reed earlier.
“I just wish Layton would have seen me as more than just his best friend’s sister.”
I snapped my head back at Wesley. What in the hell is she talking about?
She was staring at Layton again. I needed to be sure to share this with Whit. Wesley clearly had a thing for Layton, and the fact that he was married and getting ready to have a baby didn’t seem to matter to her.
“Wesley, you do realize that he is married to the love of his life. He’s about to be a father. My advice to you is to move on. Layton doesn’t want anyone but Whitley.”
She looked at me and gave me a weak smile. “Of course I know that.” She looked around and waved to someone. “Excuse me, Courtney. I see someone I haven’t seen in a while. We really need to go out to lunch and get to know each other more.”
I nodded and smiled as I watched her turn and walk up to some built guy who picked her up and spun her around. I shook my head and looked back at Reed. Anna was still standing there, talking to him. He glanced over and smiled at me. The look in his eyes caused me to suck in a breath of air.
I can’t believe he is finally mine. I slowly smiled and started to make my way over to him.
I walked up, and Anna finally looked to see who Reed was staring at. Her smile instantly fell.
She looked me up and down and smirked. “Courtney, don’t you look…like you’re ready to go for a swim?”
I smiled and looked up at Reed. “Oh, I’m ready for something, but I don’t think it’s swimming.”
Reed laughed as he pulled me closer to him.
Anna cleared her throat and said, “Well, I see now is not a good time to talk, Reed. Maybe later. Lunch or something?”
Oh. No. She. Didn’t.
Reed pulled me tighter against him, and I instantly felt calmer.
“I think now is as good of a time as any, Anna. I don’t keep secrets from Courtney, so what you have to say, you can say in front of her.”
Anna shot me a dirty look and stood up straighter. “Fine. I just didn’t like the way we ended things. I mean, I think we both overreacted. I thought maybe this thing you have going on with Courtney would have played out by now, but I see it hasn’t.”
“You bitch,” I blurted out. I tried to make my way over to her, but Reed was holding me back.
She rolled her eyes at me and let out a small laugh. “Nice, Courtney. Really classy. Are we in high school?”
I balled up my fists. I was ready to knock the shit out of her. “What? You just—”
Reed pulled me back and stepped in front of me. “Anna, I broke up with you because I love Courtney. I’ve loved her from the moment I first saw her, and I’ll love her until I take my last breath. I don’t appreciate you talking to my fiancée like that, so please, I think it would be best if you just left.”
My stomach did a little dip when Reed said his reason for breaking up with her had been because he loved me. Then, I took great pleasure in watching Anna’s jaw drop to the ground when she found out we were engaged.
“Wait, you’re engaged? When?” Anna asked as she stumbled on her words.
“That’s what this party is for, Anna—to celebrate Court and me getting engaged and Layton and Whitley expecting their first child.”
Anna shook her head and looked around. She looked back at me and then at Reed. She finally came to her senses and gave him a smirk. “You just made the biggest mistake of your life.”
Reed let out a small chuckle. “No. The biggest mistake of my life was not admitting my feelings for Courtney from the very beginning.”
Anna let out a huff as she turned and stomped away toward all the cars and trucks. I watched as she stormed
off, and I prayed that would be the last time she would try to cause problems.
Brett Eldredge’s “Mean to Me” began playing, and Reed grabbed my hand and brought me out to the dance floor.
As we began dancing, he leaned down and brushed his lips against my neck before whispering in my ear, “I love this song. I think of you every time I hear it.”
I was silently cursing that I couldn’t remember how the song had started, but as we were dancing, I listened to the words. I buried my head into his chest and just took it all in. I’d never felt so loved in my entire life.
I’m engaged to my Prince Charming.
“You’re so beautiful, Courtney. I have to control my temper right now, and let me tell you, I’m being tested big time.”
I pulled back and looked up at him. “What do you mean, you’re being tested? Why do you have to control your temper?”
Reed looked around and then back down at me. “All these cowboys are drooling over you. The moment I saw you walking up, dressed like that, I wanted nothing more than to leave and have my wicked way with you.”
My heart started to pound in my chest, echoing in my ears, and I was pretty sure Reed could hear it. He ran his knuckles down my face, and I wanted him to take me right there, to hell with all the people.
“I love you,” I whispered.
He reached down and brushed his lips against mine, causing me to let out a soft, low moan. I pushed my hand through his hair and grabbed a handful, and he let out a moan of his own. It moved over my body like a warm blanket, and I needed him more than ever before.
“Courtney…” he whispered in such a seductive voice that I trembled. “I need to make love to you…right now.”
I pulled on his hair more, and before I knew what was happening, he picked me up and started walking toward his truck. It took a few seconds for it to sink in that everyone was whooping and hollering. I buried my face into Reed’s shoulders and started giggling.
“Reed, everyone knows why we are leaving.” I peeked over his shoulder and saw Layton and Whitley watching us with the goofiest smiles ever on their faces.
I waved good-bye to Whit, and she threw her head back and started laughing. Layton pulled her to him and whispered something into her ear. If I knew those two, it wouldn’t be long before they left as well.
By the time we got to Reed’s truck, I almost wanted to put my hand down into my panties and ease the intense pressure between my legs. He set me down, grabbed the seat belt, and buckled me in.
I laughed and pushed him away. “I can buckle my own seat belt, cowboy.”
He smiled, and when I felt his hand touch the inside of my thigh, I jumped.
Jesus, the way he makes me feel is unreal.
I looked him up and down. He was dressed in jeans that fit his ass so damn good. The light blue T-shirt he had on made his eyes look stunningly blue.
I could totally lose myself in this man’s eyes.
“Tell me what you want, baby.” He moved his fingertips up and down my thigh oh-so lightly.
I closed my eyes and pushed his hand up to ease my need. “I want you to make love to me—now.”
When I opened my eyes, I looked into his, and they were on fire.
“I can get us to my place in ten minutes,” he whispered as he looked down at my lips.
I purposely licked them and sucked my bottom lip in between my teeth. He let out a moan before he quickly shut my door and ran around the front of his truck.
As he jumped in, I glanced back at the party. “Reed, what about all these people? Y’all invited them, and now, we’re leaving.”
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Layton and Whitley walking. When I looked at them, they were heading to Layton’s truck, and Whitley was smiling from ear to ear.
“Oh. My. God. They’re leaving their own party!” I said as I shook my head.
He started laughing as he put his truck in drive and hit the gas pedal. “So are we, baby, and I’m pretty sure all these people couldn’t care less. Besides, Kevin is here. He loves this shit more than Layton and I do. He can handle it.”
I looked over at Reed and chuckled. “I guess that’s true. I feel bad for leaving though.”
He shook his head and said, “I don’t. I want to be inside you much more than I want to stand around, drinking beer and talking to everyone.”
I squeezed my legs together and dropped my head to the back of the seat. Oh God. Nothing was more like heaven than having Reed buried deep inside me. I closed my eyes and started to daydream about Reed making love to me. The things that began running through my mind were driving me insane.
“Courtney, if you keep making noises like that, I’m not going to be able to make it home without pulling over and fucking you on the side of the road.”
Oh my. The idea of getting Reed so worked up turned me on even more. I wonder how far I can push him.
We were about five minutes from his house when I decided to kick it up a notch.
I reached up and began playing with my nipple through the light fabric of my bikini top. “Oh…oh God…I’m so horny,” I whispered.
I tried not to smile when I heard Reed’s sharp intake of air. A little more, Courtney, and you’ve got him. I was hugging myself internally. I slowly moved my hand down and unbuttoned my shorts before sliding my hand inside. The moment I touched my overly sensitive clit, I let out a gasp. Oh God…I just need to come. It feels so good.
I closed my eyes and let out a moan as Reed made a sharp turn and slammed on the brakes. I opened my eyes, and we were pulled off to the side of his driveway. I quickly looked to see how close we were to the road, but I couldn’t even see the road from where we were parked.
Reed threw open my door and unbuckled my seat belt. He reached in and took me out of the truck. I was still reeling from touching myself and being so close to coming that everything was happening so fast. He set me down against his truck and pulled my shorts and bikini bottoms off in one quick movement. How in the hell he’d gotten them both over my boots, I had no idea. I was standing there in nothing but my bikini top and cowboy boots. Reed’s eyes moved up and down my body as he licked his lips hungrily.
“You drive me so insane, Courtney, so fucking insane.” He reached down and pushed two fingers inside me as he closed his eyes and whispered, “Court, you’re so wet.”
“Ah…Reed…please. I need to feel you inside me right now.”
Before I could even wrap my legs around him, he was picking me up and pushing into me.
“Motherfucker,” he said, moving in slowly and pulling out just as slowly.
“Reed…I need more,” I said.
He pulled out and then slammed into me before he began moving harder and faster. I placed my hands on his shoulders as I tried to contain the moans of pleasure he was bringing out of me. The feeling of Reed moving in and out of my body in such a frantic way was beyond amazing. It was so intense that I could barely breathe. I never wanted it to stop.
Then, I felt it starting. “Reed…oh God…I’m about to come.”
He dug his fingers into my hips as he pulled almost all the way out and then drove back into me.
I let out a scream and dropped my head back. “Yes! Reed…harder…”
He gave me just what I’d asked for, and I began calling out his name. The idea of being outside, knowing someone could come up on us as Reed was fucking me against his truck, caused my orgasm to hit me faster and stronger. I’d never in my life had such a powerful orgasm.
I couldn’t help but scream out, “Oh God…Reed, I’m coming. Oh God! Feels. Amazing. Yes…oh God, yes!” I wasn’t even sure what I was hollering out at this point. All I knew was that I was having the most intense orgasm of my life, and I couldn’t believe how long it was lasting. It was taking my breath away as my body trembled from head to toe.
Reed held on to me even tighter as he called out, “Courtney, I’m comin’, baby. Ah…fuck…it feels so good.”
I swore I could feel ev
ery single ounce of him as he poured his hot come into my body. I held on to him as he slowly stopped moving his body. I wrapped my legs around him tighter as he put one hand against his truck and attempted to catch his breath. I’d read about hot sex like this in all those damn books, but never had I ever dreamed that I would be fucked outside against my fiancé’s truck. Just the idea of it made me start grinding against Reed.
He pulled his head back and looked at me with a smile. “Not satisfied, baby?”
I smiled and said, “Oh, believe me, I’m very satisfied. That was the most incredible orgasm I’ve ever had. You just make me want you every damn second of the day. I feel you moving inside me, and just the thought of what we just did…well, it turned me on again.”
He gave me that panty-melting smile of his. “Let me take care of that for you then.”
I let out a whimper at what he could possibly have in mind. “What are you thinking of?” I asked with an innocent smile.
He laughed. “I know my girl, and I know how well she packs. I bet there is something other than your Kindle in that bag of yours. Perhaps a toy?”
My heart dropped to my stomach. Oh Lord…does he want to play with me and a…vibrator?
The thought had me pushing him out of me, and he put me down.
I’d never moved so fast in my life. I opened the back door, and then I reached for my bag and stuck my hand inside, looking for the vibrator. The moment I felt the rubber, I smiled. “Yes!” I instantly felt the heat move into my cheeks as I realized that I’d said that out loud.
I looked down at the vibrator in my hand and smiled. Whitley had told me how turned-on Layton had gotten when he watched Whitley use the vibrator on herself, and I was betting Reed would be the same way. I turned around and held it up. When I looked down and saw Reed’s dick getting harder, I let out a giggle.
“Why, Mr. Moore, look at you…my very own ready-on-command. Do you get this excited when you play with your plants or feed the cows?” I used my hand holding the vibrator to exaggerate my words.
Reed’s eyes were glued to it as he shook his head. “Baby, no plant could ever have my dick coming up this soon after having sex with your—”
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