First Kiss Last by Sara Miller (read e book .TXT) 📗

words out. She grabbed a tissue from the side table and dabbed at her eyes. Emmie shook her head in refusal and pointed to Allison. Allison looked at her dad, looked at the item on the floor and back again.

“Boogers!” she said, pointing at the floor and breaking out in more giggles.

Robert quickly snatched up the item and gave it a few test squeezes. He then turned it on his daughters. They squealed and ran from the room. There were peals of laughter as their father chased them.

“Oh, my gosh, I needed that,” Leah confessed. “It felt so good to laugh.”

“Me too!” Lily agreed. “This week has been so . . . blah! And it’s just gonna keep raining, through the whole weekend. The jerks.”

“Yeah, the jerks.” Leah wasn’t sure who the jerks were but she agreed wholeheartedly with the sentiment.

As their laughter subsided, Lily sighed. “I have no idea what to do this weekend. The girls are already so bored.”

Robert returned and handed her a couple sheets of paper. Lily barely glanced at the pages before looking up at her husband.

“Really? It’s gonna be so busy . . .”

“Too late now, already booked it. Go pack.”

Lily jumped up, gave her husband a smacking kiss on the lips and ran out of the room.

Leah picked up the papers and recognized a familiar logo. Robert had gotten them weekend passes at a local resort with an indoor waterpark and other attractions. Lily was right, the place would be packed but the girls could run and play. They would have a blast. She flipped through the pages and noted the accommodations.

“One phone call and I can add a guest. Our suite can accommodate up to six. Do you want to go?”

Leah considered and as much fun as a change of venue sounded, it did not really appeal to her. The more she thought about it, the more she wanted to stay home. She hadn’t had more than a few hours alone in four months.

“Completely up to you. And don’t let Lily or the girls pressure you either way.”

Leah smiled happily. Robert was the greatest. She couldn’t ask for a better brother-in-law. Her parents failed to be loving and supportive, but Lily and Robert were. She felt so lucky to have them.

“You don’t want to go, do you?”

Leah shook her head.

“You want to break it to your sister or should I?”

“Better let me. She’ll just come to me to double-check anyway.” Leah laughed and Robert nodded in agreement. Lily popped back into the room with perfect timing. She had a suitcase in her hand.

“You guys are going to have so much fun!” Leah told her sister.

“Wait, you aren’t coming?” She looked from Leah to Robert. “Robert!”

“Lily!” She got Lily’s attention away from the innocent party. “Please. Please. Please! Do not make me squeeze all this into a bathing suit.”

Lily looked blank for a second. As if out of all the things Leah could say, this had never occurred to her. Then she smiled.

“You are right. Your goddess body would be too much of a distraction for all the dads at the waterpark. Marriages might crumble if you go. You better stay here. Alone. Where it’s safe and you won’t get stared at or hit on. Good choice.”

Leah laughed outright.

“Now I forgot why I even came in here. See? You are that distracting. Thank God my Robert is immune to your charms. He likes them taller and flatter and sassier,” Lily preened.

Robert and Leah were both laughing now. Lily gave up her silly pose and joined in.

“What’s going on?” Emmie asked.

“I think they finally lost it,” Allison shook her head so seriously that Leah was just about in tears. That’s when the girls spotted the suitcase.

When they heard the plan, their cheers were so loud, Leah had to take herself out of the room. That and she had to pee. She thought again about trying to wrassle herself in and out of a bathing suit, physically shuddered, then laughed.

Within the hour, Leah was finally alone. The only sound in the house was the endless rain. This time, it did not grate on her nerves. It felt soothing.

Leah felt truly relaxed. For dinner she ate popcorn, apple slices, and cheese. She binged watched a favorite show from her childhood that her nieces had deemed boring. It was a lovely evening.

After double-checking that all the doors were locked, Leah took a long shower and went to bed.

Something about having the house to herself and taking a shower put strange thoughts in her head. As Leah laid in bed waiting for sleep to claim her, she could not help but recall her most private moments with Cade.

She’d had seven years of mediocre sex with Eric, followed by three months of unbridled dream passion with Cade, then four months of celibacy. Leah squirmed in her bed, suddenly very horny.

Since she was just in the shower, she thought of that shared dream first. She remembered the dream so vividly that she nearly orgasmed just thinking about it.

Leah fisted her sheets in her hands instead of Cade’s hair. She imagined him once again between her legs, licking and sucking. As her need grew, she released the sheets. Her hands skimmed her body, slipping around her extended belly and between her legs. She imagined climbing on top of Cade.

That would be how they would have to do it now. With her on top. Leah imagined Cade deep inside her with his hands on her hips, framing her belly. He’d be as close to her and their unborn child as physically possible. She touched herself, pretending it was Cade.

Leah recalled the intensity of his blue eyes, the sound of his voice, the smell of his skin, everything that made him real to her. Dear God. She cried out as ripples of pleasure overtook her. Her muscles continued to contract for several long moments before her breathing regulated and her body finally relaxed.

“Holy crap,” Leah spoke aloud. Thank God no one was home.