Page 57 of Hollywood Fairytale

Josh laughed into his hand. “I don’t know why not? If I wasn’t pudgy around the middle I’d do it too.”

“No one wants to see you strip, not even your own girlfriend,” Cory retorted.

“Shut up.” I looked around Luke to scowl at them. “You’re ruining my strip tease.”

“I think she’s enjoying it.” One of the guys said with a laugh.

“I’m enjoying it.” Both Gina and Taylor said at the same time and started laughing. Taylor fell into her husband and continued to giggle into his shoulder. I had a feeling she was taking advantage of finally being able to drink and was beyond a little tipsy.

Luke grinned as he slowly slid his shirt from his sculpted torso.

Each thrust of his hips brought him closer and closer to my chair until he stood directly in front of me. I ran my hands up his thighs until I reached the edge of his jeans. I was ready to unbuckle his belt and take him into the other room, but Luke had other plans.

Turning around, he slowly lowered himself until he was grinding the tops of my legs.

“Take it off,” Gina catcalled.

“Is that what you want, Alex?” Luke asked from over his shoulder, his voice low and gruff, and sexy as hell.

“Yes,” I answered breathlessly.

He gyrated his hips one more time before he stood in front of me and made slow work of undoing his button and zipper, driving me mad with want.

He knew what he was doing to me and I didn’t care that I was ready to jump him in front of all our friends.

Slowly he dragged each leg of his dark jeans down his legs and stepped out of them to be left in only a pair of male teal bikini briefs.

Stella said something in what I assumed was Swedish before she left the room with her hand over her eyes.

Leaning forward, each hand took hold of his ass as I pulled him to me. “Where did you get those?”

Lifting an eyebrow, he asked. “Do you like?”

I eyed his package that was already at half-mast. Definitely not appropriate for our audience. “I prefer you without, but I do like them.”

He bent down until his lips caressed the shell of my ear with each word. “I made a pit stop on my way back to the hotel after the guys asked me to do this impromptu strip tease.” He bit the shell of my ear. “I think it’s time we take this somewhere private.”

“I agree.” I motioned him to move closer. “Don’t mind us, but we’re taking this party into the other room.”

Wrapping my legs around his waist. Luke stood with me, grinding against my core.

“Oh, shit this is where it stops being PG.”

“And that’s when all the fun begins,” Jason whooped.

“Don’t be pervs and listen. It’s time for you to all go back to your own rooms,” I hollered back at them before I squeezed my legs tighter around Luke’s waist and crashed my lips to his.

25

With purposeI walked down the rose path that led to my destiny. I briefly glimpsed at our friends and family, but I couldn’t stop taking in the man who waited for me.

Dressed in white linen and barefoot, Luke smiled softly at me. Each step, I felt my smile grow until I reached him, beaming up at him.

Taking a step closer, Luke grasped my hands, smiling down at me.

"Welcome everyone. Lukas Theo Sandström and Alexandra Scarlett Sloane have chosen you, those special and important to them, to witness and celebrate the beginning of their life together. Today, as they join in marriage, they also create a new bond and a new sense of family - one that will undoubtedly include all who are present here today."

I had no idea what the officiant said after that as we stood there lost in each other’s eyes. My only thought was that I was marrying the man of my dreams. I had never known love that transcended all else. Luke’s thumbs rubbed back and forth across the tops of my hands in a loving and soothing manner.

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