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Thirty-Eight

Henry

“Ferris wheel!” Bodhi shouts, but I’m still processing the fact that Jade is in front of me.

When I woke up this morning, all I wanted to do was roll over and find her next to me. To climb on top of her and use my thighs to spread her legs open, making room for my hips to fall between them. Then kiss her and slowly peel her clothes away. Suck on her perfect tits, feel her hand on my dick. Shit, this morning was a rough one.

“Hi,” I say.

“Hi, Henry!” Eloise leans her head between us.

“Eloise.” I nod, but keep my gaze set on Jade.

“I don’t think we’ve met,” Eloise says to someone, stepping away and leaving us alone.

“Hey,” Jade says.

“Daddy!” Bodhi tugs on my arm. “Can we go on the Ferris wheel?”

Jade looks down at Bodhi. He’s the only one I’m okay with stealing her attention away.

“Sure.”

“Come on, Bodhi,” Kyleigh says from somewhere behind me.

We all walk back down the pier, and I purposely allow everyone else to go in front us.

I place my hand on the small of Jade’s back and lean in close. “You look beautiful.”

A blush paints her cheeks, and I don’t think it’s my imagination that she inches a little closer to me. Our decision to keep us a secret really sucks ass right now.

We head to the Ferris wheel, and Rowan and I offer to go buy everyone’s tickets.

“Your ability to play it cool sucks,” Rowan says.

I scowl at him. “What are you talking about?”

“You were practically drooling when you saw her.”

“Isn’t that a good thing?” I ask, pulling out my wallet.

“I don’t know. Is it? You tell me.” He leans his arm on the counter of the stand and waits for me to answer.

I glance at the group. Eloise and Kyleigh are talking with Tweetie while Jade is sitting behind them on the brick wall, staring up at the Ferris wheel with Bodhi doing the same. She’s pointing at it and telling him something.

“Why aren’t you taking your own advice?” Rowan asks.

Last year when Rowan had his head up his ass about Kyleigh, I talked him into taking a chance on love. He doesn’t know I’ve already taken my own advice. I could tell Rowan. He’d keep his mouth shut. But for some reason, I feel as if Bodhi should be the first to know. Although I know he’ll be more than happy, I guess I’m still guarded about involving him.

“My situation is different.” I swipe the tickets off the counter, thank the cashier, and walk back to the group.

“Can’t ignore it forever,” Rowan says.

“I’m not ignoring it,” I mumble. We reach the group, and I hold up the tickets. “Let’s go.”

Bodhi jumps off the small brick wall, and I hold out my hand, but he turns back around and holds his hand out to Jade.

“Even your kid knows what you should do,” Rowan murmurs and walks over to Kyleigh.

I give everyone their tickets. Bodhi is at the front of the line, and as we inch closer to the ride, I’m trying to figure out how to work it so I go on with Jade.

As everyone hands in their tickets, I tug Jade by the back of her jacket. “Ky, you got Bodhi?”

She turns around right before she steps inside the gondola. Her smile confirms she’d do about anything to make sure I get some alone time with Jade. “Of course.”

“Henry,” Jade whispers.

My hand falls to her back again as we watch them all get in before we can get into the next one.

Thankfully, it’s not super busy, so we get our own gondola. Once we’re inside, I wait until we’re halfway up before moving to her side and capturing her lips. She doesn’t deny me, opening her mouth the minute my tongue slips along the seam of her lips. I hate that I can’t kiss her the entire time we make the three passes around.

She ends the kiss first, pushing lightly on my chest. “My lips are going to swell, and they’ll know.”

“I can’t seem to care right now.” I lean in for another kiss, but she presses her hand to my lips, pushing me back.

She laughs. “I love this can’t get enough of me thing. Makes me think I should keep myself unattainable.”

“Jade, I’ve never been able to get enough of you. Especially after eight years, I want you more than ever.”

“You’ve got me… just in secret.”

Fuck, I hate the hitch in her voice. That little joke she made on Tuesday floats back into my conscience. Dirty little secret.

“Do you want to tell people?” I want Bodhi to know first, but then again, we could tell the others and keep Bodhi out of it.

“No. I was just joking.”

But I’m not sure she was, and I think I’d better figure this out between us sooner rather than later before I lose her again.

“Can we change the subject? That’s one pass already.” She puts up her finger as we pass by the attendants.

“I was surprised to see you on the pier,” I say.

She laughs. “I think they set us up.”

I link my hand with hers, but I feel like when we were teenagers, and I just want to make out with her the entire ride. “I meant more that I figured you’d be in the emergency room with a giant dildo stuck in your pussy.”

Her laughter rings through the small space.

“I mean, you’re kind of giving me a complex here.” I wink at her.

She inches closer to me, unlinks our fingers, and places her hand over my dick. “Oh, are you feeling self-conscious?”

I wrap my hand around her wrist and my dick twitches. Fuck, I want her so badly, but I don’t want her to think that’s the only thing I want her for. “I never did until you sent me that picture. Do women really?”

She nods.

“Fuck, that’s crazy.”

“Don’t worry, I’m more of a vibrator girl.” My dick twitches again, and she looks down at her hand now gripping my bulge. “Oh, he likes that.”

“I think he’s trying to say he’d like to see me use a vibrator on you.”

She shrugs. “I could get down with that.”

When you get with someone when you’re a teenager, and all your hormones are haywire, and you can barely contain yourself when messing around, you get comfortable trying new things. Most of my sexual experience—outside of the realm of different positions—was with Jade. With hockey taking all my time up until I got together with her, she was my first everything in the sex department.

We pass the attendants another time.

“Can I have one last kiss?” I ask.

“Yeah.” Her breathy voice says she’s as turned on as I am.

It’s taking every ounce of my willpower not to drag her out of here and rent the first hotel room I find. Instead, I spend the rest of the short time searing my lips to hers. It’s the best surprise of my day, having this short time alone with her. But I need to figure out how long to keep this from the others before I lose her again.