Five houses down
The grit of the
sand between my toes told me exactly where I was even if I couldn’t see a thing
because Slade’s hands were over my eyes.
When he said
surprise he really meant it. And I was dying to know what it was. I had never
seen him so enthused about anything before.
“Can I look?” I
asked again letting him steer me over the sand. I held on to his shirt afraid I
was going to fall. I could hear the sea doos behind us and planes flying
overhead.
“A few more
feet,” he said.
“What is this?”
“It’s a secret,
and you’re starting to ruin it. Just shut up and go with it or I’ll never do
this again,” he said laughing at me.
I shut my mouth .
He was even sexier when he was ordering me around. The sand was beginning to
burn a hole in my feet so I hoped he would hurry.
“Okay,” he said.
“Take a look.”
I blinked a few
times my eyes settling on a beach house. It wasn’t the best, it was in bad
shape like ours when we first moved to Cherry. I looked at Slade. He moved in,
throwing an arm around me. “What do you think?”
“I think I can
see my house from here,” I said looking at my own house. “What is this?”
He led me by the
hand to the gate, the yard was overrun with weeds and debris. “This is my new
place.”
I raised an
eyebrow. “You’re joking.”
Slade shook his
head letting me go in first. “I kid you not. I signed the papers today. No more
Rv. No more Henry Park.”
I could see it in
his eyes the last part bothered him. “There’s always Henry Park.” I wrapped my
arms around him. “And this is great.”
He kissed my
forehead taking it in with me. “It’s a piece of shit. But Kidd and Oz promised
they would help me fix it up. And Henry Park is being shut down.”
“What?” I pulled
away to get a good look at him to make sure he wasn’t pulling my leg. “How
could that even be possible?”
He shrugged.
“Thank the church for that one.”
My heart ached
for him and his dreams. He loved singing there. Henry Park was just as much a
part of Slade as his tattoos and bad boy attitude.
“No worries. We
have a few ideas to keep on singing,” he told me. He worked the lock carefully
with his key while I stayed very still so I didn’t plunge through the porch.
The place was a mess.
After a few
shoves to the door with his shoulder we were inside staring at old furniture
and outdated kitchen appliances.
“This has a lot
of potential,” I said with a smile. “I really mean it.”
Slade smirked.
“You and I have a lot of potential.”
Talk about weak
in the knees. I did my best to hide what I really wanted to do at that moment
and settled for kissing him on the lips. Even now he still made me feel like a
groupie.
I didn’t know
what to say so I settled on enjoying the moment.
“I can help,” I
said, twirling around to face him. He was blowing dust off of one of the lamps
the previous owners left behind.
“Are you good at
pulling weeds?” Slade asked his brows knitted together as he looked at me.
“I’m from
Georgia, of course I am.”
“I knew there was
a reason I saved you that night instead of letting the crowd trample you,” he
said grinning.
I rolled my eyes.
We spent the next
hour washing down walls and sweeping the floors. Slade removed every dust cover
and old curtain. He fixed the only ceiling fan in his house and swept out the
windows before opening them to let some fresh air into the place.
“Looks better
already,” he said pulling his shirt over his head. He was sweaty and a bit
filthy but still hot.
I agreed giving
him a peck on the lips. I brushed some hair from my eyes and dropped the sponge
in the bucket of dirty water. “I’m hot.”
He nodded. “You
are. But be careful throwing that around all the time someone might think you’re
conceited.” He walked across the room and took my hands in his. “I might have
another surprise.”
I searched his
eyes. “What now?”
“Lift up your
shirt,” he said.
I laughed staring
down at my black bathing suit top. Before I could check out my bottoms he slid
a hand along the waist of my shorts and worked them down. They were black too.
“I like it,” I
said.
“Remember the
first time we got in the water together?” His arms wrapped around me. I had
literally a million butterflies swarming my stomach all at once.
“Yes I do,” I
said, stroking his arm. I touched his face. “That was the first time we were
together. And you were incredible.”
“You weren’t so
bad yourself,” he said making my heart skip a few beats. God, he still knew how
to make me feel like the best thing in the entire world just by looking at me.
I dusted off my
hands on the seat of my shorts. “I have to run home. But I will be back.” I
lifted my mouth to his and we kissed. His hand found my waist just like they
always did and he backed me up until we were pressed against the wall.
I wasn’t fighting
any of it because I would rather be doing what we were doing than taking my dog
for a walk at that moment. I turned pushing him against the wall. The space got
me excited at all the possibilities, we weren’t in the small Rv anymore.
Slade let me push
him up against the wall. I unbuckled his belt and tore his pants down. “I want
you.” I kissed him hard, taking my time to enjoy the feel of his mouth against
mine.
His hands moved
down to my ass, and I kissed him harder when his fingers grabbed a hold of me
pulling me into him. I loved the familiar feel of him against me.
We moved against
each other until I couldn’t take it anymore. I started pulling my shirt over my
head and Slade stopped me. “You said you were going home.”
I looked at him
breathless. “Are you kidding?”
He shook his
head. “We have all the time in the world. Go home, we can finish this later.”
He yanked me back to him when I tried backing away. “Fuck. What the hell am I
saying? I want inside you right now. Fuck time, fuck the world, I just want to
get you out of that swimsuit.”
I squealed when
he lifted me up, pulling away long enough to ask him something I had been
wanting to know. “Were you wanting to go for a swim?” Slade shook his head
pulling the strings to my bikini top.
“Not anymore,” he
said.
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Great chapter! Slade is hot as ever :)
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