Page 176 of Wildest Dreams

Showing everyone who’s close to us that we’re officially together.

Showing them that she’s moved past our history – and that her future is all mine.

Heat and happiness spreads through my chest, making it swell in size as I bend to nuzzle my face in her neck.

“My beautiful girlfriend,” I murmur to her, making her giggle harder, her water-slicked chest shaking against mine.

I keep my hands just above her waist and over the lake’s surface for her brother’s sake, but Ash doesn’t follow the same rules, leaving only one hand wrapped around the back of my neck. Her other hand reaches down between our bodies and grips the thick ridge of my cock, making me grunt like an animal as my shaft grows harder and heavier.

Even worse than that, I’m really goddamn tall, meaning that I have to drag us deeper into the lake otherwise everyone is going to see what she just did to me.

From the wolf-whistles and cheering going on over to our right, I can tell that the guys must have all noticed that Aisling and I are finally officially making this thing public.

But whether I’m in a lake full of our friends or not, I only have eyes for Aisling.

She’s everything to me.

I walk backwards, the scorching early-evening sun beating down on the breadth of my shoulders, and I drag Ash in front of me, hauling her deeper into the lake, all of our friends far off behind her now.

Aisling’s not a total shortie but she’s petite compared to me, so once we reach a spot that’s deep enough to cover the large tent of my erection I haul her up by her thighs, not wanting her to struggle if the water gets any deeper for her.

I continue walking backwards, enjoying the way that the sunlight behind my back is bringing out all of the sugary sparkles in her stunning irises. I turn three-sixty, giving her a little spin, and she laughs gently as I stroke my palms over her thighs.

“Mmm,” I murmur against her neck, “you smell so sweet. You’re like my own personal little cobbler.”

She squeezes her arms tighter around my shoulders, giggling quietly.

“Alright, that’s enough!” Connell calls over to us, his tone tough but I can tell that there’s no real malice in it. “Get your asses over here! Ash, we’re losing without you.”

Aisling glances over her shoulder, shooting her brother her perfect smile.

“Shock,” she calls out to him, flicking her hair over her back.

Connell jabs his thick pointer finger in my direction and I nod at him in understanding, giving him an easy smile because I’ve definitely pushed my luck with him enough today.

Aisling turns back around to me and before I can smile down at her she’s grabbing my face and kissing the life out of me.

My chest swells on a deep inhale, and I grunt into her mouth, almost stumbling. My hands grip tighter around her thighs and I groan in anguish as she parts her lips for me.

“You tryna get me murdered?” I rasp against her, before moving back in and taking her lips once more. And yeah, crowd or not, I can’t help but slide my tongue inside, my cock suddenly so long and heavy that it’s practically scraping against the floor of the lake.

“Goddamn,” I pant, flicking her tongue with the tip of mine. “Ash, baby – we need to fucking stop.”

Devious as hell, Ash pulls back with an innocent smile. She slips her thighs from around my middle and splashes down into the water, giggling as she pulls me back toward our friends.

My brain is so fried that I don’t register one thing that the guys say to me.

It takes around ten minutes before I’m fully conscious again and, as soon as I am, I’m pulling Aisling more firmly into my arms, not caring that I’m stealing her from the game.

“So this hasn’t been, like, a total disaster,” she laughs, smiling up at me as I press hard kisses against her forehead.

“What hasn’t?” I ask her.

“Like, letting everyone know,” she says. “Wearing my heart on my sleeve,” she adds quietly.

“Yeah?” I ask, grinning at her realisation, and grateful that our friends have been so solid about our relationship’s hard-launch.

She nods, eyes on the large muscles of my chest, before they suddenly slide over to my right, to where Caden is loving on his girlfriend.

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