Cassidy turned her sparkling eyes on me and clutched her mug of coffee to her chest. A chest covered in one of my t-shirts. It was way too big, falling past her knees and off one shoulder but I didn’t think I’d ever seen a more gorgeous outfit on a woman.
“Morning,” she said, her voice all breathy.
“Morning, sweetheart.” I pointed a finger up and down her body. “I see you borrowed my tee.”
“Yeah, is that okay? Lily told me to grab it out of your pile in the laundry. I spilled milk down my sweater.”
“Rather Billy did,” Lily chipped in, drying her hands on a towel. “Cassidy brought the kids down for breakfast at six to give us some more sleep.” A smirk licked at my sister-in-law’s lips. “Wasn’t that kind of her?”
“Hmm,” I mumbled walking toward Cassidy, the smell of coffee and laundry settling around me. “She shouldn’t have.” I took the mug from her hand, placed it on the island counter and then wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her hard against me. “I missed you.” Before she could reply, I dropped my mouth to her and kissed her hard, making it clear just why she shouldn’t have got up with the kids.
After what could have been seconds, minutes or hours, I wasn’t sure, Lily cleared her throat. “Just so you know, Bertie is already asking questions about why Miss. Turner was here for breakfast.”
Slowly removing my mouth from Cassidy’s I looked at Lily, my arms still wrapped around my prize. “What did you say?”
“Itold her that you and I were friends and so I’d had a sleepover,” Cassidy answered the question.
I turned back to her. “I thought we agreed we would say you were my girlfriend, and you stayed the night.”
Lily made a funny little noise, a cross between a gasp and a snort of laughter, and I wondered whether she was about to choke.
“You okay, Lil?” I asked, giving her a raised eyebrow.
“Ah ha. All good,” she replied through a cough. “I’m just going to find Nash and Wilder, they’re outside playing football with Bertie and Billy. They both owe me fifty bucks.”
I frowned. “Did you all have a wager on us getting together?” I asked, pulling Cassidy closer.
“Lily!” Cassidy sighed. “You’re my friend.”
“Exactly.” Lily patted Cassidy’s arm. “Which is why I won the bet and they didn’t. They had Summer break and Thanksgiving.” She threw the towel on the side and then went out the back door leading to the small pasture where Nash had made a jungle gym for the kids. Before she closed the door I heard her yell. “Hey guys, guess who won the bet, that’s right, not you losers.”
Cassidy and I started to laugh and my hold on her grew tighter as we watched each other.
“I thought you’d gone,” I told her, feeling unnecessary anxiety.
“I had to get out of bed, you my friend are like a furnace.” She patted my chest. “I thought I was going to melt into the mattress.”
“You should have woken me.”
She shook her head. “No, you needed your sleep. I know Saturday is your day off. Besides, it was nice to get some sleepy squidges from Billy. And then of course Bertie woke and came down and found us, so I just gave them their breakfast.” She inhaled. “I’m sorry if I worried you.”
“It’s okay, but next time wake me.”
Hesitancy flashed through her eyes. “So, there will be a next time?”
“Of course there will.” I dropped a kiss on her lips. “How the hell else do I show you my full repertoire of orgasms if I don’t get to have you all night? And to be honest when you have a dick as beautiful as mine, it’ll be hard for you to say no once you get a look at it.”
She smirked and rolled her eyes. “Is that so?”
“Absolutely.” I was about to kiss her again when the back door burst open and Nash barreled in.
“Sorry to interrupt guys but I’ve just had a call from Nate Jenkins. He’s in town and wondered if we could meet him in a couple of hours.” He looked at Cassidy. “You think we’re ready with the documentation?”
“I do, but I’ll need to go home and get the printouts I did on the school computer and the pen drive of some other stuff it’s saved on. My laptop is still being repaired, can we take yours, Gunner?”
“Sure sweetheart.”
She chewed on her bottom lip. “I’ll need to shower and change if you want me to come.”
