Chapter 14
HENRY
It was a long day at work and I’m just happy to be home and finally wash the sweat and dirt off of me. It’s nice coming home and feeling accomplished after we finish a project.
The lobby was the first thing we tackled and it really brought Miles’ vision to life. While he worked on small jobs around the Inn, he put me in charge of fixing up the small room that we’re making into a tiny gift shop.
It's nice having some sense of stability even though my future is up in the air after this summer. There are so many unknowns when I leave Ruby Lake that I find myself reveling in the safety of knowing that, for now, I'm on steady ground with a clear path before it forks off.
Thinking of Ruby Lake and the unknowns, my mind drifts to Maisie and our time together.
The feeling I had around her is something I can’t explain.
Being near her felt comfortable, like this wasn’t the first one on one time we had.
I think that’s why I asked her to dance in the rain with me; my mind wasn’t thinking straight and mistook the situation for something I hoped it would be.
Just friends.
I have to remind myself that every time I think of being more than friends with Maisie. We could be so good together in an alternate universe where I’m not leaving.
She invades my mind twenty-four seven. The rosiness of her cheeks when she served me child pancakes. The way her hair curled when it got soaked from the rain. The way I know she’s talked about me to Wren just from the fact that Wren helped in setting up the Fuck It List.
Long distance could work… we could work.
Shaking away the thoughts of the what-could-be’s, I finally grab my towel in hopes that my mind will wander somewhere else that isn’t all blonde hair and sparkling smiles in the shower.
Turning on the water, I step in. For a brief second I think about work and what the plans are for the rest of the week but that doesn’t last long.
The water pouring down on me from the shower head immediately puts me back into the rain with Maisie. But this time it goes to the way the rain soaked her clothes to her body, how the fabric molded to her waist. The way she unintentionally bit her rain coated bottom lip.
I want to mold myself against her body and find out what she tastes like.
I really shouldn’t be thinking about her while I’m in the shower, but I can’t help myself.
Her nipples that peaked through her shirt and those bright blue eyes rimmed with thick lashes looking at me like I’m her savior.
Her pouty lips that stay cemented in my brain, along with other things.
Her creamy skin that I want to sink my teeth into.
An ass that I have tried looking away from but still find myself wanting to spank.
Thighs that I want suffocating me as she—
Fuck.
I look down and my dick is rock hard, just at the thought of her. More than just a thought, who am I kidding? I could probably come without touching myself if I let my mind get carried away.
I shouldn’t touch myself, let alone think about touching myself over this girl I barely know. I shouldn’t have these thoughts at all.
If she could see into my head, she would never speak a word to me again.
She doesn’t have to know though. Right?
That thought alone has me reaching down and gently stroking my cock. Pre-cum already leaking out the tip.
I know this isn’t going to last long.
I lean my other arm on the tile wall of the shower, supporting myself while I grip my cock tighter to thoughts of a blonde woman I have no business thinking about in the way I am.
What I would do to fuck my dick in between her breasts while she sucks on my fingers.
Those lips sucking around my pointer finger the same way she would suck my dick.
When I’m close to coming all over her tits, I’d pull her and those shapely thighs around my face as I lie down and get suffocated by her pussy.
She would be soaked for me, eating her out until she’s shaking around me, hands gripped in my hair, while she praises me for being a good boy and getting her off.
I can’t tell if I want her to slap me or praise me, or both.
“God,” I whimper as if He above can help me right now.
Staying in my lust filled daydream about freckled pale skin, blue eyes, and pumping myself in between her plump breasts, I grip myself harder, stroking faster.
I wish it was Maisie on her knees in the shower in front of me, pumping me instead. That image alone is enough to have me coming all over the shower wall.
“Fuck,” I huff out. That was the fastest I’ve ever gotten myself off and I don’t feel good about it but I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t the best release I’ve had in a while.
A secret between myself and whatever God is above me.
“So, you’ve been silent about your date with Maisie,” Miles says sitting at the dinner table across from me. “I’m shocked you haven’t gone to the newspaper and made it national news.”
“We’re actually going to the fair tomorrow.
” I take a bite of my dinner so I don’t have to elaborate but he doesn’t say anything, just looks at me in response.
“It’s a part of her bucket list she wants to complete,” I continue.
“She’s afraid of heights and wants to ride the ferris wheel to help get over that fear. ”
“Look at you being her knight in shining armor.” A genuine smile comes out of him and even if it’s a joke at my expense, I huff out a laugh. I like this Miles, the happy yet grumpy guy I knew before his parents ruined it with their lack of love for one another.
“We had a good time the other day.” I smile down at my plate, remembering the smile on her face as we flipped through her journal. “I really like being around her.”
“Don’t forget you’re not here forever,” he tells me in his father figure tone. “I don’t want anyone getting hurt, especially you.”
With a sigh, I agree.
“You have so much love to give and you jump into new situations so generously. I don’t want what’s happening now to blindside what’s going to inevitably happen in the end.”
An ending that I want to put on pause.
An ending that includes my heart breaking as I go back home to Seattle, leaving the one person that’s starting to make me feel something.
But what if there was a way to stay?
Before I go to sleep, I send a message to the girl my mind won’t stop thinking about.
I can’t wait to see you tomorrow.
Maisie: 1 Ferris Wheel: 0