Chapter 29
twenty-nine
. . .
Finn
I’d been on set for hours, as our schedule was brutal. I had ten more days until I was home. Until I could finally kiss my girl and tell her I was all in. I’d kept up with texting her all day, every day. Sending photos of us together over the years that were saved on my phone.
Years of memories.
Years of loving this girl.
I’d just made it back to the hotel, and I opened my phone to see that she’d responded to my last text and photo, which was pretty hilarious, if I do say so myself.
This photo makes me laugh every time. Senior year, prom. You went with
Dr. Pretentious, and I took Lucy Baker. But I did all I could to photobomb every picture you two posed for.
The photo I’d sent was Carl looking like an uptight asshole, Reese laughing because she knew I was behind them, and me making a face and crossing my eyes in the background.
I’d texted her several other texts throughout the day, and I was thrilled to see that she’d responded to this last one.
Miney
Can I FaceTime you?
I wasn’t even going to respond. I was dying to see her face.
This was the first time she’d asked to speak on the phone, and FaceTime would make it even better.
I dialed the phone and dropped down onto the bed, leaning my back against the headboard.
It was almost one o’clock in the morning here, which meant it was almost nine in the morning there.
The phone connected, and I waited for her face to come into view, and there she was.
The prettiest girl I’d ever laid eyes on.
My heart raced at the sight of her, and for whatever reason, I found it difficult to speak at first.
She was sitting in a stall out in the barn, hay beneath her fine ass and a braid hanging over one shoulder.
She didn’t speak either.
She just smiled, and then the tears started falling down her gorgeous face, and she just waved.
I pushed away the lump in my throat. “Hey, Miney.”
She nodded and swiped at her cheeks and then started laughing. “I don’t know why I’m crying. I’m just really happy to see you.”
“Yeah? I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s been tortured by this crazy plan of yours.”
She smiled and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear. “You’re not the only one.”
“Did you just go for a ride?” I asked, feeling an unexplainable peace come over me now that I was looking at her.
“Not yet. I was waiting to see if you called first.”
“You call, I come, right? Works the same way with the phone. You ask, I’ll call. Every fucking time. I’ll always show up, Reese.”
“I know you will. I was wrong to worry that you didn’t know what you wanted.
I’m far from a relationship expert. I just had all these fears that you would feel obligated to me because this all started off not being real.
So, I worried that once you left, you’d realize this wasn’t for you.
” Pops of gold and honey danced in her green eyes as the sun shone in through the barn doors.
“I think it was always real for me, if I’m being honest. From that first time I kissed you, something shifted in me.”
“What shifted?” She smiled.
“I actually think that you insisting we take this time to figure things out was not the worst idea. It gave me a lot of time to think. And I realized that I’ve never enjoyed being with any woman the way I enjoy being with you.
I’m pretty sure that the reason I never dated anyone seriously is because my heart already belonged to you.
I just didn’t know it at the time. So, you dated Carl for years, and I did what I did during that time.
But from the minute my lips crashed into yours, I knew I was done for, Miney.
You own me. I don’t want anyone else. I don’t think about anyone else.
And it doesn’t matter if I’m thousands of miles away or in bed beside you. You are all that I want.”
She nodded as the tears fell, running down her cheeks.
“You are all that I want, too.”
“Are you sure about that? Do you want to tell me why you didn’t mention that you were meeting with Carl? Is there something going on there that I should know about?”
She shook her head. “There is nothing going on there. I wouldn’t lie to you, Chewy, you know that. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, and I promise to tell you why I met him when I see you. Can you trust me on that?”
“Of course, I can. If you tell me there’s nothing to worry about there, then that’s all I need to hear. But that goes both ways. I’m telling you that you have nothing to worry about, so you need to trust that.”
“I’m not a Hollywood movie star,” she said, and her voice was all tease.
“You’re everything, Miney.”
Her eyes widened, and she tilted her head to the side. “So are you, Finn Reynolds.”
“Well, it looks like we’re finally on the same page. And now we’ve got to wait ten more days until I get to see you.”
“Ten days. We’ve got this. You probably need to get some sleep. You must be exhausted.”
“How about you do me a favor?” I asked, my voice heavy in desperate need of sleep, yet I wasn’t ready to hang up with her.
“Anything.”
“Take me on a ride down to the water.”
She chuckled and pushed to her feet. “That’s easy enough. I’ve missed our rides.”
“I’ve missed them, too.”
“Take me to the last place I was buried inside you, and you rode me with that white cowboy hat on your head and nothing else. Tits bouncing, lips parted,” I said, and she gasped before holding her finger to her lips. “Good morning, Silas. I’m just chatting with Finn in Tokyo.”
“I can see that,” the man said as he barked out a laugh. “Your girl is three shades of red, Reynolds.”
“Didn’t know we had an audience,” I said as I waggled my brows at Reese through the phone.
“Okay, give me a minute to get saddled up,” she said, and I was fairly certain she tucked the phone into her cleavage, and I groaned. The phone moved, and she faced it out as she started trotting through the grassy field toward the pines and the water.
“Sorry about that,” I said over my laughter when she turned the phone to face her.
“That’s okay, you big perv. We’re alone now. Tell me all the things you miss.”
And that was exactly what I did.
We laughed, and we talked, and she sat on the beach with me until my eyes grew heavy, then we said our goodbyes.
And I fell asleep dreaming of home.
Dreaming of Reese.
One month away had felt like an eternity. But I’d continued sending texts all day long, finding photos that I knew she would love and sending her gifts that would make her smile at least once a day.
But we’d spent the last ten days FaceTiming when I’d get off work. It had helped to see her beautiful face those last days we’d been apart, but nothing would compare to holding her in my arms.
Hell, I hadn’t had sex in a month, and I was horny as all get-out, but I didn’t even care about that at the moment. I just wanted her with me. Near me.
My world had been off-kilter these last few weeks, and Reese had a way of making everything better.
I landed in San Francisco, and my brother-in-law, Maddox, had a helicopter waiting for me to fly me home so I could get there quicker.
When I landed on the rooftop of Lancaster Press, I pushed the door open to see Reese running toward me.
Arms pumping, hair flying in the wind as she crashed into me on a whoosh, and I wrapped my arms around her. We just stood there, with the wind whipping around us, the pilot strolling past us with a chuckle as he moved toward the door to the building—and I just held my girl.
She pulled back and looked up at me. “I’m so happy you’re home.”
“Me, too,” I said, leaning down and kissing her hard. “Let’s get out of here.”
With my hand on the small of her back and my huge duffle slung over my shoulder, I guided her toward the door. We went down the back stairs and out to her car. She tossed me her keys because she knew I always preferred to drive.
All the way home, she asked endless questions about Tokyo and the cast that I’d been working with. I asked about the new client she’d taken on yesterday.
“They are such a cute family. It’s a second home for them, so they are pretty much giving me creative freedom.
” She leaned her cheek against the seat and smiled at me.
“I’m super excited that I get to do their kids’ rooms. Their son, Stephen, wants a superhero bedroom, and their daughter, Alicia, wants a rainbow room. ”
“Man, I would have loved to have you decorate my bedroom as a kid.”
“Your mom is so talented. You guys all had the cutest bedrooms growing up. She’s the reason I wanted to be a designer. Remember how I’d go hang out with her when she was redoing rooms or decorating for the holidays?”
“Oh. I thought you were there for me?”
Her smile lit up her entire face, and she nodded. “I was always there for you.”
I pulled down the long driveway and parked in front of the barn before stepping out of the car and coming around to open her door. It wasn’t snowing any longer, and we probably had a few hours of sunlight left before it tucked behind the clouds.
“What do you want to do first?” she asked, tipping her head back as my arms came around her.
“I want to do you first. And then I want to take the horses down to the beach and sit with you before the sun sets.”
“I can work with that,” she said, and I grabbed her behind the knees and flipped her over my shoulder. I jogged toward the house as her laughter filled the air around us.
It was my favorite sound.
And she was my favorite girl.
My only girl.
Always had been. Even before I knew it myself.
I didn’t stop until we were in the bedroom, and I dropped her down onto the bed, her hair spilling all around her.
Her green eyes blazed as I unzipped her coat, and she lifted enough for me to pull it off.
Next, I bent down and pulled off her cowboy boots before removing every last stitch of clothing from her gorgeous body.
“Get naked,” she said, her voice husky as the corners of her lips turned up.
“Yes, ma’am.” I was stripped down in no time, and I pushed her back on the bed before hovering above her. “How do you want me first?”
“Any way I can have you.”
“Yeah? Well, I want you in every way there is. But right now, I just need to be inside you. I need it like I need my next breath.”
“Me, too,” she whispered, raising her hips and teasing me.
That was all I needed to hear. My mouth crashed into hers, and my cock throbbed at her entrance. My heart was beating so fast, I was certain it would rip from my body.
This need.
This urgency.
I’d never felt it before, and I fucking loved it.
I pushed forward, and her head fell back, and my lips sealed over her nipple.
Fuck me. I’d memorized every inch of these tits, fantasizing about them every single day since I’d been gone. They were a little fuller than I’d remembered, and I couldn’t get enough. I licked and sucked, groaning when she bucked against me, urging me to push all the way in.
I just wanted to savor every fucking second as she clenched around me.
I was buried inside her, and I didn’t move. I pulled back to look at her, pushing her silky hair away from her face. Her cheeks were flushed, her lips parted, and her eyes filled with need.
“I love you. I mean it, Reese. I fucking love you.” My breaths labored as I fought the urge to fuck her senseless and make sure she knew just how much she meant to me.
“I know you do. I see it. I feel it. And I love you just as fiercely.” She gasped when I shifted the slightest bit. “Now, stop talking and have your way with me, Cowboy.”
“Music to my fucking ears.”
I pulled out and drove back into her, over and over. She met me thrust for thrust as we found our rhythm. She tugged my head down so my mouth was sealed over hers. And nothing had ever felt better.
This overwhelming feeling moved through my body, coursing through my veins.
She groaned into my mouth, and I pulled away to look at her. Her back arched off the bed, and I gripped her hips as we moved faster.
Our breaths were the only audible sounds flooding the room.
My hand moved between us, knowing exactly what she needed.
Where she needed me.
My thumb found her clit and applied the slightest bit of pressure, making little circles and watching as her eyes fell closed.
She bucked up against me with a need that I understood, because I felt it deep in my soul.
“Finn,” she cried out as she shattered around me. Just seeing her body shake and tremble had me driving into her one more time before I exploded and followed her right over the edge.
Just like I always would.