Reconcile by Nicole Dykes
Paisley is here.
This is just fucking great. Way to bring back memories.
I finish swimming laps and prop my elbows up on the outside of the pool, catching my breath just as Piper slides the door open and walks out to me, sitting down and dipping her feet in the water.
“So, what was that about?”
Piper looks almost whimsical as she looks out at the sunset. “She told me she’s sorry. And that she’s moving here. My mom let it slip about Audrey.”
“She didn’t know?”
Piper looks down at her feet sliding through the water. “No one knew. I had to keep it a secret in order for them to pay for college. I wasn’t allowed to come home.”
“Damn, Pipes.” I wrap my arms around her but don’t tug her into the pool. “I’m sorry you had to go through all that alone. I still can’t believe they didn’t tell my parents. Two sets of snarling, angry image-obsessed parents are more convincing than one.”
She wraps her arms around my neck as I lower her into the pool with me, her legs going around my ass instinctively. “They hated your parents, and when it was clear that I wasn’t going to marry you no matter what, they were afraid of what they would do. Couldn’t have a scandal.”
“Yeah, I get that. Image is everything.” I think about my mother and father’s words.
“You know Cole invited us for dinner again?”
I kiss her neck. “I don’t want to talk about my brother or your sister right now. I want to finish what we started.”
I can feel her smiling even if I can’t see her face. My hands move to the strings of her top, effortlessly removing it again. “I do too.”
Her hands move to the side of my head as she pulls me up for a kiss. “I love you too.”
Holy. Shit. I was starting to wonder if she’d ever say it. “You do?”
She smiles and kisses the tip of my nose, then my cheek, and then my lips. “I love you. I love you. I love you.”
Greatest words ever. “I love you too. I swear I have since I met you. I was a fucking idiot.”
“As long as you know that.”
I grin and kiss her as she shoves my trunks off my ass, and I kick them off this time, wanting nothing between us. I push her bikini bottoms off and slide into her. “Fuck, this is where I wanna stay forever.”
She laughs, “You always say that.”
“It’s always true.”
“I’m quitting my job.”
I stop moving for a moment, staying seated deep inside her. “You are? Wow! That talk with Paisley changed a shitload.”
She laughs, the sound going straight to my cock. “I’ve been resisting working for Viv, even though that’s what I really want. I may have to stop being so stubborn.”
I nip along her collarbone as I start to thrust in and out of her again, relishing the feeling of being inside her. “Don’t change too much, Pipes. I happen to love you exactly like this.”
She moves her hips with mine, clinging to my shoulders and whimpering softly near my ear, “I happen to like you like this too.”
“Yeah?” I thrust in deep, pulling a long sexy moan from her.
“Oh, yeah.”
I’ll never fucking tire of this. And I’ll never be that stupid again now that I have her.
