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“I fear no such thing,” Rhett muttered, but his scowl remained.
“Then keep an open mind,” I urged, running my hands over his back. “Please.”
The displeasure in Rhett’s gaze faded the longer the silence stretched between us. I’d have given a million dollars to know his feelings.
“She is sunshine,” I promised, believing he just had to meet her and his mind would be set at rest. “Bright and energizing.”
“How flighty is she, Ash?” Rhett asked, his tone stern.
A smile broke over my face as I imagined her in my mind, flitting around Nora’s kitchen and chattering like a tweety bird.
“Shit,” Rhett muttered and exhaled loudly, finally relaxing against me. “You’re already half in love, aren’t you?”
“She’s a kind, generous creature.” I grinned, recognizing the signs of his relenting. “And you’re going to love her too.”
“You mentioned coconuts.”
Leave it to Rhett to latch onto the one redeeming quality he’d heard and would approve of.
“She claims to make a mean coconut cream pie too,” I told him, my smile fixed firmly in place as excitement replaced the concern I’d felt moments earlier.
Rhett groaned and tugged me closer, his nose finding my neck. “If she’s half as tasty as you, I promise to keep an open mind.”
I slung my leg over Rhett’s hip and pressed our groins together, my heart lighter than it had been in…years even though my stomach continued with its unhappiness from the dry wine.
“I’m sorry I didn’t talk to you first before offering to be her knight in shining armor, but she’s going to fit perfectly between us in every way. I’m just sure of it.”
“And if I want you all to myself some days?” he asked, the question telling me he trusted me and had resigned himself to the possibility of a future with Sky.
“She fantasizes about watching.”
“Fuck.” Life stirred in Rhett’s dick. “How kinky is this woman?”
“That remains to be seen, but I can’t wait to find out.” The thought of Sky in our bed in any way, shape, or form swelled my dick.
“I want your ass,” Rhett said and grazed his teeth over my neck.
Flipping over without another word, I offered my body to him, knowing he would take me along with him. Thoughts of Skylar being there with us in the flesh played out in my head, but everything beyond Rhett faded away once he sank deep into my body, stretching me with stinging, delicious pain/pleasure.
His loving strokes quickly led to jolting thrusts until three days’ worth of cum began to coat the sheet beneath me.
“Love. You.” Two deep plunges and Rhett groaned against my shoulder blade, releasing inside me as my hole spasmed around his cock.
“Love you too,” I gasped with one last shudder.
We both panted for breath, his chest sticky with sweat against my back.
Lax and grinning, I could help but think of Skylar. “You’re going to love me even more when you see how perfect she is.”
Rhett brushed his lips over my neck and pulled out, leaving me empty and chilled. “We’ll see.”
His words didn’t hold an ounce of hope, but I clung to it, sure she was meant to be in our lives.
I just prayed she would help him see the light and that her happiness wouldn’t make him retreat further into himself.
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