Total pages in book: 108
Estimated words: 103159 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 516(@200wpm)___ 413(@250wpm)___ 344(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 103159 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 516(@200wpm)___ 413(@250wpm)___ 344(@300wpm)
“I wasn’t being serious.”
After taking a drink of her beer, she replied, “I know. Now, how was it? I mean, he is a cousin, so don’t get too graphic, but was the sex good?”
Lily giggled and nodded like one of the bobbleheads you see on people’s dashboards.
“I am not having this conversation with you two.”
Rose let out a bark of laughter. “Oh, I think you are. We’re the closest thing you have to a friend right now, and it’s written all over your face that you’re bursting to talk.”
I looked away and sighed.
Lily reached across the table and squeezed my hand. “Kipton, we really do want to be your friends.”
When I looked back at the two of them, I almost laughed. They both wore such hopeful expressions. “Okay, we were…intimate.”
“How much?” Rose asked.
I looked around the restaurant, then leaned across the table. “We made love at the cabin, and…it was my first time.”
They both gasped as their eyes went wide. Of course, leave it to Rose to be the first to speak.
“You are shitting me. You were a virgin!”
I kicked her under the table. “Why don’t you go announce it to the town!” I said in a whispered shout.
“Did he know?” Lily asked.
Nodding, I couldn’t help but smile. “Yes. It wasn’t anything we planned, but the moment felt right.”
They both sighed.
“Was he sweet?” Lily asked.
“Yes. Very sweet. And romantic. And afterward, we ate a lunch Lincoln packed for us.”
They both put their hands over their hearts. “I wish my first time had been sweet and romantic.” Rose sighed.
“It wasn’t?” I asked.
The pizza came, and we halted the conversation until the server walked away.
“Nope,” she said as she took a slice. “It was prom night, and I thought I was in love with the asshat.”
Lily chuckled. “Oh my gosh, I lost my virginity on prom night too!”
They both looked at me.
“I wasn’t saving myself for marriage, if that’s what you’re both thinking.”
“I was,” they said at the same time.
I laughed. Then with a half shrug, I said, “I can’t really explain it…it just never felt right with any of the guys I dated. I haven’t dated a whole lot, anyway, but no one has ever made me feel like Hunter does. I knew he loved me before he even said it.”
Rose dropped her pizza, and Lily’s fork and knife clattered to the floor.
Pressing my lips together, I closed my eyes and internally kicked myself.
Rose waved her hands in front of her face, closing her own eyes. “Hold on. Wait one second.”
“He told you he loved you?” Lily asked with a wide grin. “Oh my God, what did you say?”
Rose opened her eyes and appeared to be holding her breath.
“I said I loved him too.”
Covering her mouth with both hands, Rose teared up as Lily waved her hands in front of her eyes, blinking rapidly.
“Was it like…love at first sight?” Lily asked.
I couldn’t help but smile. “I think so. I mean, I instantly knew that I was attracted to him the second I stepped into his parents’ house.”
Rose dropped back in her seat with a sigh. “I love love.”
Lily nodded, then reached for Rose’s fork and knife and began cutting her pizza. She took a huge bite as she pointed to Rose and said, “Same.”
Rose clapped her hands, then picked up her pizza once more. “Okay, now we have to figure out how to get rid of the rest of the girls so you’re the only one left!”
Chapter Twenty-Six
HUNTER
“What are you doing here?”
I glanced over my shoulder to see Blayze walking toward me. I smiled and turned back to Iceman and started to brush him again. “Went for a ride this morning.”
He leaned against one of the stalls and gave me a once-over. “Nervous about tonight?”
I let out a humorless chuckle. “Is it that obvious?”
“Maybe not to everyone else, but it is to me.”
Turning to face him, I looked at my older brother. “Do I treat it like a normal date? Do I hold back some? We didn’t want people knowing we’re dating.”
“My advice is to have fun, but maybe remember you have a shit ton of people watching you. Enjoy the time with her, but maybe don’t whisk her off to your bedroom. Wait—do they have a camera in your bedroom?”
I curled my lip. “No, but I’m sure they’d like that.”
“Mom said they now have one outside at the girls’ house for when they go into the hot tub.”
“Yeah, that was a sore spot for Kipton. But I guess they asked the girls, and they were fine with it.”
He rolled his eyes. “When is this damn show over?”
“Not soon enough, but we get a break for Christmas, and Kip and I can do and be whatever we want for a few days.”
“You sure they’re turning the cameras off at your place?”
I frowned. “Jack assured me they were, but that doesn’t mean shit.”