EthanLiam turned and smiled as we stood at the edge of the water in San Diego. The ride down had been good for me, and my brother knew me well enough to keep his trap shut. I'd rolled the windows down and let the sun chase away the black shadow crawling across my life."See? You feel better, don't you?" He reached out and squeezed my shoulder."Yeah. I do." I glanced out at the ocean as white tipped waves crashed into the shoreline. I wanted Riley with me. Standing in front of me. My arms around her shoulder, her soft ass pressed against me as her hair blew in my face. What I wouldn’t give for a do-over."And you know what would make you feel even better?" He smiled and lifted his hands, waving at someone. "Pussy.""Oh shit." I glanced down the way to see two girls in bikinis so small that they shouldn't have spent the money to buy them. Scraps of cloth that most likely cost them a couple hundred dollars each. "Dude. No. I'm not in the-""Come on over." He moved around me. "Shut the
EthanShe reached up and brushed her fingers through my hair. "You look windblown.""Does she hate me?" My stomach tightened at the thought, and I felt all of ten years old again. Needy and wishing someone cared enough about me to show up for one of my rehearsals or God forbid, a movie premier. My folks were too busy, and Liam was too young to get himself there."I don't think so, but you got a long road ahead of you, Ethan. She's got a lot of pent-up hurts in her life, and I think she's adding you to that list." Deza backed up and slipped her hands into the pockets of her dress. "And I know I've said it a million times, but I'm sorry.""It's okay." I glanced around, checking for Riley again. "Just help me fix the parts that you can. I'll try my best to do the rest, and if it doesn't work, then that's on me." I shrugged as if it didn't mean anything to lose out on possibly the best thing that had ever happened to me in my life."Don't do that." She reached out and gripped my wrist, pu
RileyI'd been way too harsh in my response to him bringing me flowers. I was shaking as I slammed the door and locked it, my emotions all over the place."Chill out. Shit." I walked to the floor to ceiling windows at the far part of my hotel room and pulled the curtains over. Liam was below, standing near the water with two hot girls and laughing from what I could tell. "Must be nice. To be alive and free."My eyes moved down to see Ethan walk out of the hotel and toward his brother. Shit. Was he going to take one of the women for himself?The fact that I cared spoke volumes.He'd come to apologize, and I had shoved him away?"Why?" I whispered and sunk down on a chair next to the window, watching the scene below as horror raced through my chest. He was going to break my heart again, wasn't he?Deza's words from early that morning echoed through my head. Give him a chance. He's a good man. Love's never come easily to him. My pulse spiked as he neared Liam and turned, flipping his mi
RileyI smiled and sunk down next to him before kicking off my sandals. "The truth about what?""About how I felt about you, Riley." He licked at his fingers as mustard dripped between them. The sight of his tongue had my body aching for something more than I knew I'd let happen just yet. He wasn't a good lover. He was the best. Attentive, and the size of his cock was beyond anything I'd ever seen in my life. A simple thrust had my body shaking. Where it would take all sorts of stimulation with Jace, with Ethan, it took very little."Well, how about we start with a friendship? The white roses meant a lot to me. I was just hurt and angry. I overreacted.""No, you didn't." He glanced over at me and smiled. "Friendship works, but just know that I'll be trying for more. I'm in love with you. I hate that everything had to fall apart for me to figure it out."His words bore through me, lighting me up in a million different ways, but I had to be careful. He could destroy my heart with nothin
EthanI had to run the night before, or I wouldn't have been able to leave her be. She meant too much to me, and standing there under the moonlight with her hair down and eyes wide with innocence? Fuck me. It was too much."Hey, buddy." Seth patted me on the back as he walked up beside me. "You ready to start your day with a little bit of stretching?"I glanced down the hallway and smiled over at him. "You on the floor too?""Nope. I was waiting outside your door all night like a fucking fangirl." He batted his eyelashes at me. "I slept behind the fern."I rolled my eyes and stopped by Liam's room, knocking on the door. "Let me in.""Who's this?" Seth lifted an eyebrow and nodded toward the door."My playboy bunny of a brother is here. I promised him I'd come down if he came with me.""And he's going to want to take a Pilates class this morning?" Seth chuckled, knowing Liam would vomit over the thought of being so feminine."Nope. That's why I'm dragging his ass with us. We might as w
Ethan"Nope." I took Riley's hand and pulled her toward the hallway where Seth disappeared. "I don't think it's fair that you're able to hide things when you're turned on.""I'm not turned on." She glanced over at me, her cheeks a light pink, her breathing slightly off."Yeah, you are. You're thinking about my monster cock. Admit it."We stopped, and she turned to face me, her eyes moving down toward my stomach as she shook her head. "I'm not, and stop being so dirty." She glanced back up at me, the vein on the side of her neck beating wildly."No?" I reached out and brushed my fingers down her side. "I think someone is lying.""Hey. Where the fuck did you go?" Liam and his perfect timing."See you in exercise class." She turned and jogged down the hall, giving me a beautiful view of her ass, jiggling in her pants."Ugh. Fuck you, man. What the hell?" I reached out and pinched his nipple.He yelped and swatted me away. "What? You left me back there with that chick I almost plowed over
Riley"Great job today." Frank stood in front of all of us later that afternoon and smiled. "Thank you all for getting back to work. I think we'll be able to wrap up the rest of the film over the next few days for the parts that we're filming down here."I glanced over to my right to find Ethan watching me. He'd been doing it all day, and I would have been lying to myself if I didn't admit that I loved it. I'd worked hard the night before in the room to walk through everything we'd done and been through together.My conclusion was simple. We had some shit to work through, but all in all, if he were willing to come after me, then I was going to try hard to meet him in the middle."Riley. Come walk and talk." Frank motioned for me to join him."Sure." I glanced back at Ethan and waved, wanting him to know that I was thinking about him.He blew me a kiss, embarrassing me. Silly ass."That boy." Frank shook his head. "I swear. I've never seen him act this way around anyone for any length
RileyThe white dress I wore was almost see through, but it would be hard to make out anything in the darkness. I let my hair down and brushed it a few times before slipping into a pair of white G-string panties and leaving the bra out. My breasts were big, but not so big that I looked slutty.I turned around, looking in the mirror, and praying like hell that he would find me beautiful, that I would leave him breathless just like he left me."Please let this workout." I picked up a tube of pink lipstick and leaned in, brushing a little across my lips. "All I want is for someone to love me the way I know he can. Please let us be right for each other. Let it be tonight."I took a shallow breath before spraying on a little bit of perfume and grabbing my room key. I didn't need anything else, and hopefully, I wouldn't need that.The very thought of spending the night with him caused my body to ache in ways that no other man had caused. He was the one. I had no doubt, but this time it coul