Chapter 46
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
Gage
I curse under my breath. I don’t know what the fuck I was thinking when I agreed to host this bachelor party.
Katie is waiting for me at her apartment.
We made love early this morning after I told her that I wasn’t Kristin’s biological father.
It was Katie who urged me back into bed.
She dropped my shirt on the floor and wrapped her body around mine.
I was hard instantly.
After taking me in her mouth, she took me inside of her.
I was sheathed and wanting. I fucked her slowly, but the need to hear her come drove me to up the pace.
With wild, frantic fucks I took her over the edge before I emptied myself into the condom with long, heavy breaths.
She kissed me goodbye before she left for work and made me promise that once Myles’s bachelor party was over, I’d be in her bed.
It’s after midnight.
Cases of beer have been emptied. Money has exchanged hands at the pool table and the ball game that was blaring from the television was over hours ago.
I shut down Tin Anchor for this.
I won’t lose more time with Katie for it.
“You’re itching to leave.” Zeke elbows me. “Isn’t the best man supposed to have more fun than the groom at a party like this?”
“I don’t have a rule book.” I pat the empty back pocket of my jeans. “I’m winging it.”
“You’ve done good.” He points a finger at Myles who is barely managing to keep himself upright on a chair. “He won’t remember a thing tomorrow.”
I laugh. “I wouldn’t bet against you on that.”
“What’s his bride’s name again?” Zeke runs the bar towel in his hand over a wineglass.
“Annalise.”
“That’s a far cry from Karen.”
I know where this is headed. I heard Myles mention his ex once or twice tonight. I tried to get him back on track by talking about how excited Annalise is for the big day.
We’re three weeks out from the wedding.
“If you did have that rule book,” Zeke starts before he turns to face me. “On page nine, paragraph three you’d find that it’s the best man’s duty to have a talk with the groom about the ex he’s still in love with before he takes a vow to honor another woman for eternity.”
My brows pop up. “Is that so?”
“Would you want your sister marrying a guy who is hung up on someone else?”
“I don’t have a sister,” I point out a fact that Zeke knows all too well.
“I do,” he counters. “I have two and I can tell you that I would step into the middle of it before any shit hit the fan.”
“It’s already hit, wouldn’t you say?” I jerk a thumb in Myles’s direction.
Zeke looks over to catch the groom-to-be sobbing over his empty beer glass.
I tug my phone out of my pocket so I can send Katie a text telling her I’m on my way soon. “I’ll have a sit-down with Myles in a day or two. I can’t stand next to him when he marries Annalise if Karen is still carting his heart around town.”
Zeke pats my shoulder. “Myles knew what he was doing when he picked you to be his best man.”
“Get him an Uber and a coffee to go.” I pull up Katie’s contact information even though I’ve got her number saved to memory. “Let’s clear this place out. There’s somewhere I need to be.”
The beauty in this vision could drop me to my knees and keep me there for eternity.
Katie in a white tank top and white lace panties with a just woken glow about her is angelic.
I storm past her and slam the door to her apartment shut.
I take her in my arms. The warmth radiating from her body permeates my skin. The scent of her is intoxicating.
Jesus, I love this woman with every part of my soul.
“I fell asleep after you texted me,” she whispers into my neck. “I was dreaming about you.”
I walk backward down her hallway, tugging her along with me. “Tell me about that dream.”
“We were on the sailboat.” She sighs. “It was windy. Not crazy windy but just the right kind of windy. You know what I mean.”
I know exactly what she means.
It’s the warm wind that she always loved.
It would bathe her skin after we fucked on my parents’ boat. She’d lie naked on her back while she floated down from the high of her orgasm.
I’ll never forget those moments.
The world didn’t exist. It was just the water, the sky and the two of us.
“What else do you remember about the dream?”
“He was there,” she murmurs.
I stop dead in place. “Who?”
Her heavy-lidded eyes drift up to my face. “Who what?”
“You said he was there, Katie.”
Her brows pinch together. “I did?”
There was only ever one he other than me in our relationship. Teddy, the cranky cat that Katie adopted from a woman in our building.
The cat couldn’t fucking stand me, but it loved Katie.
She loved him just as fiercely.
When he died, she was inconsolable.
“You’re talking about old Teddy, aren’t you?” I stop when the back of my knees hit her bed. “You were dreaming about him being on the boat with us?”
“Teddy,” she says his name on a sigh. “I miss him.”
“I’ll help you forget about him for tonight.” I brush my lips over hers. “I’ll give you something new to dream about.”
Her gaze drops to my hands. “I think I’ll like that dream if it involves you without any pants on.”
My jeans slide to the floor, followed by my boxer briefs. My cock is painfully hard. “In that case, you’re going to love that dream.”