The Worst Best Man
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“Well, we don’t need to move too fast,” she began, feeling hesitation rush up.
“You got down on both your knees—”
“I can’t get down on one knee in this dress! You’d have been looking at my hooha during my very sweet and inspiring speech!”
He was laughing now and lifting her off the ground. She felt him hard against her hip and went quiet. Her brain shifted gears into sexy time.
“I love you, Franchesca,” he whispered against her jaw.
“I love you, Aiden, you stubborn son of a—”
He covered her mouth with his, shutting her up with a kiss. She struggled for half a second, determined to make her point, and then lost her damn mind when his tongue stroked into her mouth. She shoved her fingers into his hair, gripping the silky strands she had missed so much. Breathing him in, she told him again and again as his mouth slanted over hers just how much she loved him.
“How are we going to celebrate?” he asked, breaking free for a second.
“You’re going to bend me over that desk and remind me of everything that I’ve been missing.”
“I’m the luckiest man on the planet.” He nipped at her neck, fisting a hand in her hair.
“Damn right you are.”
Epilogue
(One month later)
“Cannonball!”
Franchesca rolled to her side to watch Aiden at the open terrace door. Sheer white curtains billowed in on the tropical breeze. He was naked, as he had been for most of the twelve hours since they’d been pronounced husband and wife. Her ring finger bore the weight and sparkle of their commitment to each other. A commitment they’d made on the white sand beaches where it had all begun and continued in the same bed where she’d first discovered Aiden Kilbourn’s potency.
“Mmm,” she sighed, stretching her arms over her head. “I could get used to this view for the rest of my life.”
Aiden shot her a cocky grin over his shoulder. His muscled back, and gorgeous ass, showed evidence of the tracks her teeth and nails had taken throughout the night.
“I’m not sure if I’d want this view every day,” he commented. “Your dad just did a cannonball over Marco and Gio and splashed Rachel.”
Frankie snorted. “You did not have to bring them all along, you know.”
“They’re family.”
Marco and Gio shouted something, and there was another loud splash.
“Antonio! Stop splashing. Don’t you idiots encourage him, or they’ll throw us all out of here,” May Baranski screeched at Frankie’s favorite underage cab driver and her brothers.
Frankie flopped back on the pillow. “You can’t take the Brooklyn out of the Baranskis. When are they leaving again?” she asked.
“Tomorrow with Chip and Pru and my parents.”
“I still can’t believe your dad came to the wedding,” Frankie said. She rolled out of bed and padded across the room to the small refrigerator where she found a bottle of water.
“He’s getting used to the idea of letting me make my own decisions. In another five years, he might even like you.”
Frankie laughed. “I’ll hold my breath for that possibility. Did you tell him about Elliot?”
Aiden shook his head and met her where she stood, his hand stroking over her breast and down to the curve of her hip. He circled her body as if he were taking stock of it. “Some things are best left between brothers. But I did tell him I bought Elliot out of the company.”
“A clean slate,” Frankie sighed.
She felt his erection stir as it brushed her ass cheeks. “You’re insatiable.” She reached for him, gripping him at the base.
“The same could be said of you, my wife.”
“Oh look! We can see in Frankie’s room from here! Yoo hoo, Frankie!” May stood up on her chaise lounge and waved.
“Oh my God.” Frankie shoved Aiden out of the line of sight and onto the floor. “I can’t take these people anywhere!”
“I guess we can go be social until tomorrow,” he sighed with disappointment.
But she was already sprawled on top of him. And he was already hard and pulsing between her thighs.
“Maybe we can spare a few minutes,” she suggested, moving to straddle his hips.
He was laying on top of her discarded veil and the skirt of her crumpled wedding dress. Both of which he’d stripped from her last night.
He’d refused to tell her just how much the dress had cost, but she’d caught the estimate in the gossip blogs. Leave it to Aiden to spend that much on a piece of clothing worn for a few hours.
Aiden’s blue eyes hooded with desire. He was a beautiful sight, and he was all hers. He hinged forward, bringing his mouth to her closest breast, his abs rippling with the motion.
As he sucked and teased, Frankie took him inside her in one languorous slide.
“God, you’re so beautiful,” he murmured against her flesh, teasing the nipple with his lips.
“You’re everything I didn’t know I wanted, Aide,” she breathed.
His hips thrust up to meet hers, rocking into her in a slow, steady rhythm.
She moaned, and he clamped a hand over her mouth. “Quiet now, sweetheart. We have an audience outside.”
Frankie tasted the metal of his wedding band, felt the drag of him inside her against her trembling walls.
“It’s never going to be enough,” he whispered. “I’m never going to have enough of this with you, Franchesca.”
His words, sweet and strained, echoed in her head, her heart. She dug her toes into the floor, rolling her hips against him.
He hissed out a breath, and she swore she felt him throb inside her.
“You’d better be with me,” he growled, and with that, he rolled, trapping her between the skirt of her wedding dress and his unyielding body.
He drove into her powerfully, his hand still covering her mouth. But they didn’t need words. Not when their gazes held, not when their souls locked into place and their bodies came apart at the seams. She felt the first hot burst of his release as she clamped down on his cock as her own climax bloomed like a flower.
“Yes, Franchesca. Yes.” He chanted sweet and dirty vows as they came together.
All in. Forever.
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Author’s Note to the Reader
Dear Reader,
Where do I start? As always, I started the book with an idea of where it would go. I thought this was going to be just a light, funny, rom-com set in paradise. And then Frankie and Aiden got deeper, their conflict got more intense, their families got more complicated. Basically, I fell head over freaking heels for these two and their hot mess of a non-relationship.
I was so sure Frankie would get her heart broken and then she ended up doing the breaking. It’s like I have no control over these people! I hope you loved them as much as I did!
I set the wedding in Barbados because it’s one of my favorite places to go with Mr. Lucy. We went specifically so I could soak up the research for this book... also some sun. And all the rum. The white sandy beaches, the turquoise water, the insane minivan public transportation. It’s ah-mazing.
Anyway, if you loved Frankie and Aiden, please feel free to hop over to Amazon and leave a gushing review. If you hated them and you’re still reading this note, I admire your commitment.
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About the Author
Lucy Score is the author of the Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestseller Pretend You’re Mine. She grew up in a literary family who insisted that t
he dinner table was for reading and earned a degree in journalism. She writes full-time from the Pennsylvania home she and Mr. Lucy share with their obnoxious cat, Cleo. When not spending hours crafting heartbreaker heroes and kick-ass heroines, Lucy can be found on the couch, in the kitchen, or at the gym. She hopes to someday write from a sailboat, or oceanfront condo, or tropical island with reliable Wi-Fi.
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Acknowledgements
Jaycee at Sweet ‘n Spicy Designs for this hella hot cover
Dawn and Amanda for your editorial eyeballs of awesomeness
Mr. Lucy for ignoring my Christmas request for knock-off Uggs and buying me my first real pair… and then not yelling at me when I immediately got a grease stain on them (can Uggs be dry-cleaned??)
Jodi for once again turning my mangled chunk of a blurb into something exciting and one-click worthy
Joyce and Tammy for being amazing in Binge Readers and in real life
Sushi
The Will & Grace reboot
Tacos. Always tacos.
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