Chapter 27 #3
“You and Luke were made for each other. We have known it since you were young, and you’ve just been spending too much time apart, and it felt like it was never going to happen.
You are both too stubborn and so scared of being honest with each other about your true feelings.
So, we thought this was the perfect opportunity. ”
“For you to scheme?” Mia interjects and the two ladies just laugh.
“We thought this was the perfect opportunity for you both to spend quality time together and and get closer.” Bitsy adds.
“We had a feeling the notes would make you both act rashly and decide to go together. Though, we never would have predicted you’d lie and pretend to have been dating for a year.
That was even better than we’d hoped. What a fabulous idea. ”
“Grandma—” I say. I can’t help laughing.
“So, you guys wrote the rude notes on the invitations?” Mia says, demanding more information. “Every single word? None of it was from Rex? I just want to make sure I’m understanding this fully.”
“Yes, darling. I’m sorry. We didn’t really mean them. We just wanted you both to be so infuriated that you would take some sort of action—and we hoped that action would lead you two to being together.” Her grandma’s voice is sweet. “We hope you both understand.”
“That’s all we wanted because we knew that you were made for each other, and we just needed you both to realize that,” my grandma adds. “We knew if we tried to play matchmaker you’d both run from the idea, but we figured if you guys played matchmaker together, it would lead to something.”
“Dang. We were set up,” Mia says, shaking her head as she laughs. “So, what is at the end of the treasure hunt, Grandma, if it’s not real gold? And please do not tell me it’s candy. If the gold is chocolate coins, I’m going to be mad cos you know they’ll likely have melted by now.”
“It’s something far greater than that,” Lucille says softly.
“The gold we have for you is the most valuable thing in the world,” my grandma adds. “Gold everyone wishes they had.”
“What’s that?” Mia asks and looks at me. “Are there million dollar bills?” She asks and I just laugh as she wrinkles her nose.
“Please do tell us what awaits us.” I add.
“True love,” Lucille answers in a breathy sigh. “True love is rarer than any precious metal or jewel. It is the one thing money can’t buy.”
“You found each other, haven’t you?” my grandma asks and there’s hope in her voice. “You realize now that the special connection you both have is more than just friendship now, right? It’s destiny.”
Mia and I stare at each other, and I squeeze her hand before reaching up and touching the side of her face. My heart flows with love for her. It should feel weird feeling this strongly about her, but it doesn’t. It just feels right.
Oh, so right.
“We have realized we were made for each other and I think I speak for both of us when I say we are desperately in love. Mia is my greatest treasure and you’re right, she is more precious than anything else on this earth.
” I kiss the top of her head, then the tip of her cute little nose, and then her soft trembling lips. “I love you, Mia.”
“I love you too, Luke.” She lets out a dreamy little breath. “Oh, Grandma,” Mia’s voice softens. “Thank you.”
“You can thank me when you get married and give me plenty of great-grandbabies.”
“Grandma!” Mia says, laughing.
“What? A woman can wish, can’t she?” Her grandma starts laughing and I lean over and whisper into Mia’s ear.
“Do you think your grandma would still be laughing if I told her I very much wanted to impregnate you.” I tug on her earlobe.
“The thought of making you pregnant fills me with joy. We can even practice right now.”
“Luke.” Mia blushes and grabs my bicep. “What if they hear you?”
“What?” I smile at her innocently. “Shall I tell them I want us to go and practice right now.”
“Luke.”
“Excuse me everyone, but I need to get Mia naked so she can ride my cock and have the best orgasm of her life…again.”
“What did you say, Luke?” Bitsy says. “We didn’t hear you.”
“Nothing grandma,” I laugh as Mia glares at me. I bring her into me and thrust into her ass as I wrap my arm around her waist. She shimmies her ass on my crotch and I groan under my breath.
“Oh are you sure.”
“Yes.” I bite down on my lip as I slip my fingers across Mia’s stomach. “Please do not go and tell all the bees what is going on just yet, okay,” I say as my fingers play with Mia’s bellybutton.
“As if we would do that,” my grandma says, and we all start laughing at the irony of her comment. She was most probably already texting them.
“So, remember, a storm is coming. You guys should get back to the hotel. Don’t go to Hidden Cove. At least not until the storm passes,” Lucille says.
“Okay, we won’t,” I say. The real truth is all I want right now is Mia naked, sitting on top of me.
“Oh, and if you would both do me a favor and just call your friends and tell them that the wedding is off. We’re still going to have a large party, and everyone can celebrate because it’s already been paid for.
But it will just be a celebration of love in general.
However, if you both…well, if you two decide you want to get married—”
“No, Grandma.” I cut her off, as much as I would love to marry Mia, I’m not doing it at Rex’s cursed event.
“Fine, fine, fine. We’ll just have fun. So, Mia, you’ll let your friends know that they’re still to come, but we’ll be celebrating something else.”
“Okay, I will let them all know. I’m sure they won’t be shocked.”
“Great. Well, we’ll see you two lovebirds, later.” We hang up the phone and just stare at each other in mirth and shock. Though, I know neither one of us are mad. I know that I for one am extremely grateful.
“Can you believe that?” she says in awe. “Our grandparents set us up.”
“I actually don’t know how I feel about this. I’m absolutely ecstatic, but I am in shock. I feel kind of bad now that I talked shit about Rex and his notes seeing as he never wrote them.”
“No, it was deserved,” she says, giggling. “He must’ve thought I was absolutely crazy because he had no idea what I was talking about when it came to the notes, but he was a jerk in so many other ways.”
“But wasn’t he so self-centered that he didn’t even really bring it up to you again?” I say. “You would have thought he would have questioned you to get to the bottom of it all.”
“You’re right. He didn’t say, I have no idea what you’re talking about, and try to get to the bottom of it.”
She touches the side of my face. “I love you, but your brother really needs some work.”
“I know. And maybe one day, he’ll get the help that he needs, and he and I will have the relationship that I want. But right now, you’re all I need and want.”
I smile at her and kiss her. “Should we go back to the hotel?”
“What do you want to do?” she says, a teasing tone in her voice.
“I don’t know. There are a couple of things I could think of.”
“And what are those?”
“Let me see … you.”
“What do you mean me?”
“I’d love to do you one time, two times, three times—”
“What about the fourth and the fifth?” she says.
“If I have energy left.” I wink at her.
She laughs. “I love you, Luke Haverbrook. You are the perfect man for me.”
“And you, Mia Bishop, are my beautiful angel—the love of my life, the key to my heart, the future of my being. You, Mia, are my everything. And please never forget that.”
“So, I’m not just another summer romance then?”
“No, my darling. You are the rest of my life.”