the back.
“So, your brother didn’t want to crash my party?” The thought is a little funny.
Keaton is starting to understand me. If he’d shown up here with his brothers, the place I’d told him I was going for a girls night, I probably would have been pissed. But while I’m glad he’s given me my space, I also kind of want him here. We haven’t done the group hang thing, and with all of the Nash men here, who look so much alike, it makes me want to see his face.
So I whip out my phone to text him. After I shoot off the message, I see Bowen’s phone ding.
“Damn, you really did summon his ass. He told me he’ll be here in two. Asshole was probably waiting around to be invited.”
Forrest and Fletcher laugh at Bowen’s mocking of their brother, but I’m too busy trying to calm my fluttering heart.
It seems to happen every time I know I am about to see Keaton. My whole system goes haywire, and I can’t keep my hands still. Even now, the anticipatory tremor that moves through me feels like an electric current that could only be channeled when he walked into this bar.
“So much for girl’s night,” Penelope mumbles.
Forrest sidles up to her. “Fuck girl’s night. I can do you one better.”
She almost spits her drink out. “Forrest Nash, you’re a boy. I’m a grown woman with children and a mortgage. In your dreams. Plus, I saw you get pantsed in elementary school, or did you forget that?”
The group cracks up at her scathing rejection, and Forrest pretends to have been shot.
But all the air leaves the room, at least for me, when he walks in. Maybe it’s the two glasses of wine I’ve had, or that we’ve been talking about him for the last fifteen minutes and it’s made me antsy. But as soon as Keaton’s eyes meet mine, I don’t want to be here at all.
I want to be alone with him, undressed, learning all of the things he can do with those capable hands.
“Hey,” he breathes, coming directly toward me.
His hands go around my waist as he presses his lips to mine, in front of everyone. The worry about PDA goes right out the window though, when my mouth registers his warm one bearing down on it. I’m lost, my brain fuzzing over with desire.
There is a turning point in every relationship, that moment you know you’re going to have sex. It’s not a flowery way of putting it, but you know the minute you want to fuck someone, that the animal attraction is so strong you can’t be satisfied with foreplay and anticipation anymore.
Tonight is that moment.
22
Keaton
“No fucking in the bar!”
Fletcher’s annoying fucking voice interrupts my tongue from entering Presley’s mouth, and when I pull back, I’m mesmerized by the desire-filled green pools swimming before me.
“Nice to see you, big bro.” He claps a hand over my shoulder, hard.
Turning, I watch as he sways in front of me. He’s wasted, and I’m both pissed at my other brothers and surprised Gerry hasn’t thrown him out of here yet.
“You should get him home.” My disdain is made clear to Forrest.
I don’t want to deal with Fletch tonight. For one, I wasn’t even supposed to come out. I’d been watching the game, waiting for texts from Presley, trying to leave her alone. And for two, now that I was here, the only thing I wanted to do was take my girl home and give her exactly what her eyes were signaling to me.
She was going to let me have all of her tonight, I could feel it in the air.
“Don’t come in here and piss on our party. We were all having a great time. That is, until Lily scurried off like a scared mouse. Big bad wolf Bowen sent her running.” He cackles, and everyone else in the group looks uncomfortable.
Forrest slugs an arm around his twin’s shoulder and steers him away from the bar. “Let’s go get some air.”
Fletcher protests as they walk outside but follows anyway.
“Sorry you had to see that.” I turn back to Presley. “I hope he wasn’t too obnoxious.”
She shrugs, smiling. “All is forgotten. I’m just glad you came down here. Thank you for giving me my space, though.”
“Oh, get on with it, already. We got her for two drinks, now you can take her to bone town.” Penelope rolls her eyes. “At least one of us should be getting laid around here.”
Bowen chuckles.