it wasn’t him telling her to stop.
He groaned. “Please, don’t. I’m going to have nightmares about stopping for a long time to come.”
“So you’re waiting until we’re married?” she asked.
“Yes, and if my memory serves me well, I don’t have long to wait.”
She tilted her head to the side. “Huh?”
“Have you forgotten already?” He leaned forward and kissed her head. “You promised me you’d married me when you became eighteen. I’m going to hold it to you.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, really. You and me, and we’re going to have a whole lot of fun.” He ran his hand down to the curve of her ass.
She giggled when he stopped. Since this morning, she’d noticed her dad had been keeping a closer eye on Simon. If only he knew she’d offered herself up to him and Simon wanted to wait. She doubted he’d be proud of the reasons he wanted to wait.
Lexie came across the room and seeing as the relationship with his parents was tense, she took a step back and went to the edge of the dancefloor.
“How are you?” Daisy asked, handing her a soda.
“I’m good. You?”
“Yeah, I’m good. Are you happy?”
Tabitha chuckled. “Can’t you tell that I am?”
“I can tell but, you know, with you I can’t always tell. You laugh in the face of your enemies, remember?”
Tabitha nudged her friend’s shoulder. “I love having him here.”
“You do.”
“Yeah, but, I’ve made my decision.” She turned to Daisy. “I’m going to be with him.”
“You’re going to become a Chaos?” Daisy asked.
Tabitha nodded. “Yeah, I think I am. Don’t get me wrong, I love being here. I love being a Skull, but I know my life is with him. This has only proven it even more so. I love him. My life is with him.”
She glanced back at the dance floor. Lexie’s head was tilted back as she laughed at something he said. She smiled, more pleased than anything to see the two finally getting along. She ran fingers through her hair. “Did you know I was going to have sex with him today?”
“You were? Wait, you still haven’t?”
She shoved her friend’s shoulder. “Get your head out of the gutter.”
Daisy chuckled. “Sorry. Just the two of you alone in a room, you’d expect fireworks.”
“There are fireworks, but he wants to wait until we’re married. How can I not go with him? He’s right for me on so many levels.”
Daisy wrapped an arm around her waist. “Well, I hope nothing bad ever happens between the two clubs.”
“Me neither. I don’t think I’d ever want to give you or anyone else up.”
She held on to her best friend, watching as Simon then took Angel onto the dance floor and started to dance with her.
It wasn’t long before he came back for her.
She went right into his arms.
“Please, tell me this isn’t me,” he said. “You can feel it too?”
She pressed her head against his chest, breathing him in. His arms were around her, and she felt safe and loved. “It’s not you. I can feel it too.”
For as long as she could remember, when it came to Simon, he’d made her feel this way. Loved, protected, safe, and it was a feeling she was going to take with her. Grandpa Ned had once said to her if you can find someone who makes your heart race and each time they step into the room, you just want to go and be with them, they’re the kind of person you want to keep around for a lifetime.
Simon was that person.
He was hers, just as she was his.
Nothing was ever going to take him away from her. Nothing.
Chapter Seventeen
Simon never went back home to live, he only ever went to visit. Each time he left on a Friday, he was back by the Monday, and Tabitha would wake up to him in her bed. Time went by as it did. The days turning to weeks, the weeks to months. His graduation was nearing as they all got closer to their end of the term. She didn’t know what he was going to do while she had one year to go at school.
Daisy had already decided on a local college and Tabitha had picked the one closest to Piston County. She’d already told her dad and Lash of her intentions after next summer, to leave Fort Wills and go with Simon. Of course, her parents were upset, but that was to be expected.
Time passed. School came and went. Simon was part of her life, but he did spend