Chapter 15
chapter
fifteen
Carter
The soft opening of Little Spoon is pressure enough on Summer, who hasn’t been feeling well.
Then there’s the added pressure of meeting Owen, who doesn’t seem to like Cooper and me very much.
“Where y’all from?” he asks, giving me a once-over.
“Gold Hill Investments,” says Cooper.
“Did y’all run out of room to build more parking lots up there or what?” Owen asks.
We can take whatever he dishes out. I’d be more worried if Summer’s older brother wasn’t skeptical of a pair of newcomers.
Summer and Harmony, however, are giving their brother the death glare.
Cooper keeps himself busy by bringing samples to everyone. I feel stuck, awkwardly babbling to Owen and his date, Daisy.
“We’ve been interested in investing in Fate for a while now. We see a lot of growth potential here,” I lie. Well, it’s not a total lie. We’ve been spending a lot of time in Fate helping the girls open the shop and discovering that we’ve been sleeping on Fate for too long. There’s much more room to grow here than in Gold Hill, which is almost built out.
He can tell I’m exaggerating and about to sweat through my clothes.
Harmony, thankfully, grabs Owen by the arm and pulls him away. “Hey, I need some heavy lifting in the back.”
If this is what Owen is like, I shudder to think what awaits me when we finally meet Mills.
After the soft launch ends, and the girls close the store, Cooper offers to walk Harmony home, leaving Summer and me to clean up.
I don’t mind it. Harmony and Cooper have things to talk about.
Summer and I clean tables and mop the floor in the dining room, then tackle the mess in the back.
“How do you think things went?” Summer asks, starting the dishwasher.
“Good. I didn’t get any samples, but the feedback was all positive.”
She looks disappointed.
“Baby, I’m sorry!”
I laugh. “Don’t worry, I’ve sampled almost everything in the store. I think I’ve gained ten pounds in the last month.”
Summer frowns over her shoulder at me from where she’s busy cleaning out the sink. “Me too, actually. I’m busting out of this bra.”
That shouldn’t turn me on, especially with how Summer’s been feeling lately, but it does.
I move behind her, lifting her top, running my hands over her ribs, careful not to touch her where she’s been complaining about soreness. “Then you should take it off.”
Summer pushes back against me with a sexy whimper. “Maybe you should help me with that.”
She hasn’t been in the mood for sex in the last few days, which is fine with me. I’m a grown man, after all.
But if my girl wants help with her bra, what choice do I have?
I carefully undo the clasp at the center of her back, and Summer works the straps off under her shirt, pulling the bra off through her sleeve. I fucking love that trick. Especially when she turns around, and I can see her nipples pushing out through her top.
“Better?” I ask, circling my arms around her waist. Her soapy hands go around my neck.
“Since you didn’t get to try anything, I’ve been saving something new for you,” she says.
“What’s that?”
Summer gives me a soft peck on the lips and backs away, going to the freezer.
I watch as she scoops a serving of frozen pink stuff into a paper cup. “Babe, can you grab the sprinkles? Not the regular jimmies, the fancy flavored ones I just ordered.”
“Aye-aye, Captain.”
I retrieve the bucket of gold, silver, and pink heart-shaped sprinkles, then watch as she spoons some of them over the pink frozen stuff.
“What’s this called?”
“It’s berry-flavored frozen yogurt with white chocolate sprinkles. I call it Date Night.”
She holds out a spoon, and I taste it. The flavor bursts on my tongue. I can think of a million ways to eat her sprinkles, and none of them involve a spoon.
“Awesome,” I tell her.
Summer lights up. “Really?”
“Are you surprised? You’re a friggin’ genius, baby. I don’t know where you come up with your ideas.”
Her slow blink is something I haven’t seen in a few days. “I have lots more ideas where that came from.”
I get her meaning. “Are you feeling better?”
She lifts one shoulder. “Still a little sore, but I’m weirdly excited tonight. I think the soft launch made me a little aroused.”
Carefully, I slide my hand over her stomach. “Just a little?”
Her nostrils flare at my touch. “Okay, a lot.”
“Are you sure?”
She sighs in exasperation. “Baby, all I’ve been thinking about is you eating ice-cold fro-yo off me all night. You’d better take that before the mood passes.”
Well, how can I say no to that?
I drag my hand downward and hitch up the hem of her skirt. With one quick move, I tug aside the thong and sink one finger into her heat.
“Here?”
Summer sucks in a breath. “Right there!”
I lift her up and lower her down on the clean metal counter adjacent to the sink, her back propped against the tile wall. I tug her skirt up around her waist and roll her thong down to her knees.
With the frozen treat in one hand, I kiss my way up the inside of Summer’s thigh, working my way up to her center.
Her soft lips are damp and sticky but smooth when I spread her open with my face and lick her there.
Summer gasps. “Carter.”
I kiss and lick her wet folds, fruity and sweet, lost in her wetness.
“Carter, I’m gonna come too quickly!” Her fingers thread through my hair, tugging me off of her.
I look up between her legs. Harmony’s flushed face is so beautiful to me, her expressive eyes peeking down at me over the swells of her breasts.
Deftly, I spoon some of the sprinkles with the icy, berry-flavored dessert over her lower belly. We both watch it melt and spread, running between her legs.
I lick the sticky sweetness off her folds, the fruitiness mixing with the white chocolate sprinkles and the sweetness of her essence.
She takes the cup in her hand, and with a wicked look in her eye, she turns the cup over. The frozen yogurt and sprinkles spill down the front of her, going everywhere that frozen yogurt and sprinkles were never meant to go.
My Summer is un-fucking-believable.
I lick her hole, spearing my tongue into her core, finding her most sensitive spot.
“Yes, Carter!”
I leave no part of her untasted. I devour every inch of her, cleaning off every delicious morsel.
I circle my lips around her taut clit and give a gentle suck, working my tongue over the hood until her sweet berry trembles.
Summer shrieks and comes hard, squirting over my chin.
I take all of it, drinking in every drop of her sweet essence.
When I take her in my arms again, I know I’ll never leave her side.