“Hell yeah, you are.” Sophia clinks her glass to mine.
“Oh, the stories that table could tell,” Eve laughs, touching our drinks together.
I take a long sip and already feel the tequila making its way through my veins. Images of Jake shirtless while playing pool enter my mind as I peek at him again over the rim of my glass. That pool table is getting one more story, and I have a feeling I’ll never look at it the same way again after tonight.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
JAKE
Ifeel her eyes on me again, and I struggle to focus on the game. It’s like my whole being is consumed by her, and I can feel and see every little thought running through that beautiful head of hers.
I don’t know what the girls are talking about, but I know whatever it is has got her worked up, and not in a bad way. Her eyes are devouring me, and I’m fighting the urge not to haul her away somewhere to ease that ache that I know is forming between those sexy legs.
I shift uncomfortably in my pants as my dick twitches at the thoughts running through my mind right now. Miles throws the winning point and grins when Ryder groans next to him.
“Good game, brother, but you still lost,” Travis says as I roll my eyes.
“I played half of what I’m capable of because Lyla keeps distracting me. You got lucky tonight because my head is elsewhere.”
“Whatever makes you feel better,” he laughs as we walk back to the girls.
I sit down next to Lyla and haul her on my lap. Smiling, she leans back into me.
“What I wouldn’t pay to know what you’ve been thinking about,” I whisper in her ear. “Those eyes of yours made me lose my game.” I kiss her neck and take a quick taste.
“Just something I have in mind for later,” she says, a smile playing on her lips.
“Do I get a hint?” I brush her hair over her shoulder to expose more of her neck to me. Since my family is busy making drinks and getting the cake ready, I take this opportunity to kiss her neck again, my tongue swiping her sweet skin. My hand glides up her thigh and squeezes.
Her breath catches as my finger slides into the bottom of her cutoff shorts and brushes over her panties. I bite back a moan when I feel the dampness.
I see them start to bring the cake over and remove my hand.
“Just remember, Lyla, all you have to do is ask me, and I’ll give you anything you want or need.”
Sophia lights the candles, and Lyla moves to get off of me, but I hold her in place.
“If you move now, I’m showing everyone in this place exactly what you do to me.”
Giggling, she situates herself in my lap, and I groan softly when her ass rubs against me.
“Not helping,” I ground out, causing her to giggle harder.
Everyone starts to sing Happy Birthday, and I wrap my arms around her from behind, singing along with them softly.
Eve sets the cake down in front of her as we end the song.
“Make a wish, little hummingbird,” I say in her ear.
“I don’t know what to wish for.” She looks around at us before turning back at me. “Every wish I’ve made since I was little came true when I met you.”
I swallow down the emotions that rise to the surface when Imeet the sheer innocence and vulnerability in her eyes that were stolen from her a long time ago. She’s finding herself again, and it’s the most beautiful thing to witness.
“Maybe we can make new wishes together…for our future?” I say quietly, not even giving a fuck that my brothers are watching me lay my heart at Lyla’s feet. The whole world can know I’m hers for all I care.
“I’d like that,” she smiles and interlaces our fingers while she turns back to the candles. She closes her eyes and makes her wish.
I silently wish for mine before we blow them out together. There’s only one wish I want and one person standing in the way of me getting it. After tonight and that text, I think it's time for him and me to have a little chat. The only last name Lyla will have in her future is Montgomery.
