“You do that,” her mother said. “And regardless, I want to meet this man again. Not the boy I remembered when you were a child, but the man who has put stars in your eyes.”
She smiled. “That might take some work, but I’ll try.”
24
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Somehow, Sunday rolled around and Clay was having dinner with his family. The entire family.
And Meredith.
It’d been a month since she interviewed and now she was sitting by his side after he’d seen her naked and tasted every part of her body.
She did nothing more than smile and nod her head on Friday when he suggested she spend the weekend with him. Tomorrow, after he checked the window, she could move back.
It’d be better for them both.
But what was better didn’t seem to be the way things went when they were in each other's presence.
“You don’t want me to go to dinner, do you?” she’d asked him earlier today.
He’d turned from where he was on his laptop finishing up with a few things for work. Reenie had sent over designs for the labels on the bottles of hard cider that he had fermented already for his limited edition.
“I’m not going to let you sit here alone,” he said. “If I’ve got to put up with my family then so do you.”
She frowned.
They had a much more relaxed weekend than he’d thought they’d have.
He was working on the land yesterday, leaving her to her own devices. Most of the time she’d spent on all the wedding planning stuff. They’d spent more time than he cared to count talking about it last night until he finally shut her up with a kiss.
One that ended in the bedroom.
She’d slept with him for three nights now. She was a cuddler. He wasn’t surprised.
Thankfully, she’d roll over to her side of the bed after some time. Maybe he nudged her in that direction, but it worked.
“They aren’t that bad,” she said.
“That’s because you like Gale,” he said. “She’s the worst of them.”
Her mouth hit the floor. “Crap. I never told her about us.”
He rolled his eyes. “Trust me, she knows. Everyone does.”
“How?”
“My mother,” he said, closing his laptop down. There was no reason to kill any more time. Everyone would be there by now.
“If Gale knows, I wonder why she hasn’t reached out?”
“So that she can get her digs in more in person,” he said.
Who the hell knew with his sister?
Meredith inhaled, let it out, then shook her arms, her butt following. “Okay. I should be fine.”
“What was that all about?”
