Faithful (46 page)

Josh took me by the hand and led me into the bathroom. Beautiful white and light blue candles surrounded the oversized Jacuzzi tub.

“Oh my gosh…everything is so beautiful. Did Jenny do all of this?”

Josh smiled and shook his head. “Nope. I came up here while you were talking to my mom, Emma, Grace, and Sue.”

“I tried to get that over-romantic, bastard best friend of mine to help me, but Garrett couldn’t find him anywhere.”

I smiled because I knew exactly where Gunner had been. Ellie had filled us in on their little sneak-away. “Ellie and Gunner had a little, um…alone time earlier,” I said with a smile.

Josh let out a small laugh and pulled me to him. “Have I told you how beautiful you look?”

“I think maybe once or twice.”

His eyes turned from love to passion in a matter of seconds. “I love you, princess.”

My heart started beating faster in my chest. “Make love to me, Josh.”

He laughed and shook his head. “Your wish is my command.” He took my hand and led me out of the bathroom.

He reached over to his iPod sitting in the iHome, and Brad Paisley’s “New Favorite Memory” started to play. I smiled as he placed his hands on my face. He brought his lips right up to mine and barely touched them together.

“I can’t wait to make new memories with you, baby.”

I closed my eyes as I felt my stomach twisting and turning.
Oh. My. God.
I opened my eyes and gazed into his beautiful green eyes. “You have no idea how special you’ve made me feel today. I just…I feel…”

As I felt a tear roll down my face, he wiped it away.

“How do I make you feel?”

“Like a princess. Like you love me more than life itself. I’ll never forget this day and how you made me feel, Josh.”

He leaned in and kissed me so softly that I let out a whimper. Then, our kiss turned more passionate. I needed him so badly. I started to unbutton his shirt, but our lips never lost contact with each other. After I pushed it off his shoulders, I placed my hands on his massive chest that was still covered by a white tank top. I slowly pulled away from his lips and lifted it up and over his head. When I pulled back to look at him, I noticed the tattoo on the left side of his chest. I just stared at it. It was my name in cursive, and under my name was a heart with the number two on it.

I shook my head and looked up at him. “When did you…”

He gave me that smile that just about dropped me to my knees. Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars” started to play.

Josh laughed and shook his head. “What perfect timing for a song!”

I looked at him, confused.

“I made arrangements to have the tattoo done last night. Jeff, Gunner, and Brad were with me.”

I smiled. “The number two? You and me?”

“Nope.”

“The babies?”

He laughed. “No, but that would have been a good idea!”

I hit him on his stomach as I looked back at the tattoo. “What does it stand for?”

“When I gave you my heart. Who else gets to say he’s fallen in love with the same girl twice?”

I shook my head and felt my heart beating faster. “What about the song?”

“I used to listen to this song over and over again—just dreaming about being with you, marrying you, having kids with you, growing old with you.”

I slammed my body into his and kissed him. I needed him right this moment. I kissed him and poured as much love into the kiss as I could. “Please…please make love to me. I just want to be lost in your love all night.”

“Turn around.”

The sound of his voice made my whole body tremble. I slowly turned around. The moment I felt him unbuttoning my dress, my heart started beating faster.

He started laughing when he finally got to the last button. “Jesus, that was a lot of buttons!”

I tried to turn around, but he stopped me. Placing his hands on my shoulders, he leaned down and started to kiss my back. Then, he pushed the dress off my shoulders. The whole thing pooled at my feet. I went to step out of the dress.

“Wait. Fuck. If you look this amazing from the back, I can’t imagine what you’ll look like when you turn around.”

I looked over my shoulder and smiled at him. He moved his hands up my neck and began taking the pins out of my hair. The moment my hair fell, I felt a sense of relief. When he ran his hands through my hair, I let out a soft moan.

“Oh god. That feels so good to have it down.”

He kissed my neck as he placed his hands on my stomach. My whole body trembled.

“I love how your body reacts to my touch,” he whispered in my ear.

“Josh…”

“Step out of your dress, princess, and let me look at you.”

Jesus. H. Christ. Why am I so nervous?

He took my hand as I stepped out of the dress, and I slowly turned to face him. He sucked in a breath of air and just looked me up and down. I almost felt like I wanted to cover myself up, but the look in his eyes just turned me on even more.

When his eyes finally met mine, he smiled. “So fucking beautiful. I can’t believe you’re mine.”

I couldn’t even talk. I just wanted him to take me into his arms, so I could lose myself in his love.

“Heather…” He bent down and started to take the clips off of my thigh-high stockings.

I picked up my foot and set it on his leg as he gently rolled the stocking down. When he kissed the inside of my thigh, I let out a moan.

“Faster, Josh.”

He let out a laugh. “Oh no, princess. I’m going to enjoy every second of this.”

He repeated the same slow process when he took off the other stocking. Then, he removed the garter belt. He got on his knees and slid his finger along the top of my blue lace panties.

“Oh god…” I put my hands in his hair and tried to steady myself as he removed my panties.

Kiss me…oh please, kiss me down there.
I was just short of begging him to touch me with his lips, his fingers, anything. I just needed to feel his touch.

“Your body is so beautiful, baby. I could stare at you all day.”

“Josh…” When I felt his lips on my clit, my whole body jerked. “Oh god, yes!”

He pulled away, and I grabbed his hair.

No!

He kissed my stomach and then whispered to the babies before he slowly started to stand up.

My heart was pounding so hard. “Josh…I’m so turned-on right now. I just need you. Please.”

He stood up and looked down into my eyes. “I need you, too, baby, but I want to savor every moment of this.”

He reached behind me and had my bra undone so fast that I didn’t even realize he had taken it off until he tossed it to the floor. Bending over, he took a nipple into his mouth as he started sucking and pulling.

“I think…I’m…going to…”

He let out a laugh. “What, baby? Are you going to come, baby?”

“No, you ass! I’m going to explode with desire if you don’t touch me soon.”

He started to walk me to the bed. When my legs hit the edge, he looked at me. “Lie down, and spread your legs open.”

I can’t breathe. Holy hell. I can’t breathe. I’ve never in my entire life been as turned-on as I am this very moment.
I sat down on the bed and moved up to the pillow. I lay down and slowly opened my legs to him. My chest was moving up and down, so hard and fast, and I just knew he could hear my heart beating.

He slowly crawled onto the bed. He kissed from my foot up to the upper thigh and then over to my other upper thigh and back down to the opposite foot. I grabbed on to the comforter and pulled on it as I arched my body up.
Why is he teasing me like this?
I closed my eyes as he started to move his way back up my leg, one soft, painfully slow kiss at a time. Then, I felt his lips right above my clit.

“Josh, please! I can’t stand it any longer.”

He slowly pushed his fingers inside me. “Motherfucker, Heather…you’re so wet.”

“I want you, Josh. I want you so badly.”

“Heather…” he whispered against my skin.

The moment I felt his tongue move along my clit, I knew it would only be a matter of seconds.

Oh, sweet heaven, this feels so damn good.
“Yes…”

I moved my hands through his hair as he kissed and sucked. I arched myself into him. I felt it building. “Oh god, Josh, don’t stop!”

He kissed and sucked my clit as he moved his fingers faster.

Jesus…I’m in a blissful heaven.

I didn’t even notice when Josh began crawling on top of me. I was just barely coming down from the first orgasm when he buried himself so deep inside me.

I grabbed on to him and called out in pleasure. “Oh my god! Oh god, Josh.”

I felt his warm breath against my neck as he whispered in my ear, “I love you so much, Heather.”

Oh. My. God. Is it possible to have an orgasm on top of another one?

Then, he said so softly and sweetly, “Oh god, Heather…I’m going to come, baby.”

My world exploded with those words. He reached down and captured my lips with his as he kissed me before calling out my name. It was one of the most intense orgasms I’d ever had.

Nothing in this entire world will ever be as wonderful as this very moment. Nothing.

Josh leaned up on his elbows, catching his breath, as he looked me in the eyes. “I can’t wait to make love to you under the stars of Italy.”

Wait. What?
“Italy?”

He smiled and kissed my nose. “Yeah, princess. Italy.”

My pouch!

“I brought it, Heather. It’s in my backpack.”

I looked at him, confused, and then I realized he knew what I was thinking. “You brought my flower petals?”

“I did.”

My heart swelled with more love.

“Just when I think a moment with you couldn’t be any more special, you go off and do something else to top the one before.”

“Are you happy, Heather?”

I smiled. “I’ve never been so happy in my life.”

Josh rolled off of me, and I snuggled up next to him.

“Give me just a little bit,” he whispered.

I listened to his breathing as it got more and more relaxed. I was pretty sure we were both going to fall asleep together.

As I looked out the window to the dark ocean outside, I thought about my mother and father.
Were they as happy as Josh and I are?
I so badly wanted to call Ellie, Ari, and Amanda to ask them if they had felt the most overwhelming sense of love on their wedding nights. My heart felt like it couldn’t hold any more love.

Then, he started to mumble. I put my chin on the back of my hand and watched him sleep.

“Don’t drop the babies, Jeff!” Josh called out in his sleep.

When I giggled and kissed his chest, he opened his eyes and looked down at me.

“My love will always be faithful and true to you,” I said.

He moved his arm around me and smiled. “I love you, Heather.”

“I love you, too, Josh.”

He closed his eyes and drifted back off to sleep.

Italy? Wow.
I closed my eyes and dreamed of Josh making love to me on a beach…under the stars of Italy.

“Dewey, I’m really not in the mood to go to a bar tonight. I just got back from the coast, and I’m tired.”

“Come on, Jessie. You’ve been pouting ever since you got back. Let’s just go boot-stomping.”

I rolled my eyes as my brother looked at me with pleading eyes.

“Fine.”

We pulled up to the Wild Coyote Bar.

Dewey jumped out as he yelled, “Let’s dance, baby sister!”

I laughed as he grabbed my hand and pulled me out of his truck. When we walked in, I noticed him.

“Fuck!” I said.

Dewey followed my eyes. “Alright, we’re gonna have fun tonight!” He threw his head back and laughed.

Miranda Lambert’s “Mama’s Broken Heart” started playing as Dew pulled me out to the dance floor. I looked over my shoulder, and Scott was downing a beer as some bleach-blonde was trying to talk to him.

As Dewey and I two-stepped, he yelled out a whoop and a holler. I wanted to hide, but I knew it was too late. When I glanced over toward the bar, Scott was watching us on the dance floor.

Shit. Shit. Shit. Maybe staying in Mason is a mistake.

Dewey was singing along with Miranda, and I couldn’t help but start laughing.