“Would love some. I can make it.”
“That’s okay. I just finished making one. Knox, would you mind?”
Knox goes over to the Keurig and removes the mug, then passes it to her. With one arm still around her, I take the mug and hold it in front of us to allow it to cool down some.
“Getting back to you coming to England with me,” Trevor says while putting the bread on some aluminum foil and sliding it into the top double oven.
“Trevor, I have school. Besides, I don’t want to go to England.”
“Everyone wants to go to England.”
“Well, I don’t. Can’t Fallon meet you there?”
I take a drink of coffee and put the cup down on the counter island. “Why does she need to go to England?”
Aurora answers for him. “Another one of our lost siblings has been located. What did you say his name was?”
“Sebastian Cruz.”
“Trevor thinks it may make things easier for Sebastian if I’m there. We don’t know how any of the other siblings will react to finding out they are the bastard children of a billionaire who didn’t give a shit.”
“And that right there is why I want you with me,” Trevor tells her. “You’ll know how to deal with whatever he may be feeling once he finds out. Besides, aren’t you curious to meet your brother?”
Aurora narrows her eyes at him. “Have you looked into this guy? I mean, is he a good guy?”
Once the toast is done, Trevor hands us plates and tells us to take whatever we want. Me, Aurora, and Knox dig in like starving children.
“From all the info that’s been gathered, Sebastian looks good on paper. No laws broken. Upstanding citizen. Looks like he came from a stable home. Dad died when he was six. He moved to the U.K. with his mom five years ago after she married a Brit she met at work. Sabastian is twenty and attends Oxford, so he’s clearly bright.”
Aurora thinks things over while nibbling a piece of bacon. “Can it wait until Christmas when school is on holiday break?”
“I don’t see why not,” he replies, a grin appearing because he knows she’s about to cave.
And she does with a huff. “Fine. I’ll come.”
“Perfect! I’ll tell Fallon.”
“On one condition,” she adds. “I want JD to come, too.”
I look down at her. “You do?”
Turning in my arms, she looks up at me. “Absolutely. Only if you want to. Think of it as our first vacation together. I’ll pay for all the expenses.”
My eyebrow lifts at that. “I can pay my own way, sunshine. I have an account with money that I can access.”
She shrugs. “What’s the good in being a Montgomery if I can’t spend money on what I want?” She tugs on my shirt to bring me down to eye level with her. “Besides, I wasn’t asking,” she says, and kisses me.
Any further argument dies as she kisses the hell out of me in the kitchen in front of her brother and the other guy who wants her.
Chapter 25
Ispent the entire weekend with Aurora, deciding to give my old man the middle finger and a big fuck you and not come home. Besides, I’d rather be with my sunshine. Aurora makes me happy. She builds me up instead of trying to tear me down. She doesn’t want nor expects anything from me. Most importantly, she loves me for me. Not because I’m good at football. Not because I’m Mr. Popular. She loves the real me—the me that is Jackson and not JD the Quarterback King of Highland High.
Staying at the Montgomery home this weekend was eye-opening. I saw what a real family looks like. I saw what true love looks like, and it hit me hard that I’ve never had that. I sat and watched a group of people, most of them not even related to one other in any capacity, be a family in all sense of the word. I met cute little Butch, his younger brother and mother, and Knox’s mom. I met Devon and Trevaughn and their families when they came over for Sunday lunch. Apparently, the lot of them do that every week. Aurora explained to me how Fallon met all of them at a New York City women’s shelter, how he brought them all down here and took care of their every need.
I’ve only met Fallon a couple of times, and the man is a little scary and intimidating on a good day. You’d never know just by looking at him that he has a pure and caring heart underneath all that attitude. Hearing how he rescued those four families, invited them to live in his house, and gave the women jobs at Montgomery Pharma—it blew me away. I already admire Fallon for what he does for Aurora, but to hear how he helped all those families, not to mention the work he does for women in need around the world—you can’t not respect the hell out of the guy.
I reluctantly left Aurora’s bed this morning around four since it’s a school day, and I’m currently wearing borrowed sweats and a T-shirt that belong to Trevor. I need to get in at least an hour’s workout before I pick Aurora up for school. I kissed her sleepy lips goodbye and left the Montgomery estate about a half hour ago to come home. I should feel exhausted after Aurora and I stayed up most of the night talking and fucking. My girl is insatiable, and I’m not complaining one damn bit.
