Page 127 of Forever

“Mhm,” I said.Not exactly.But no one was watching. “I wanted to bring you here after the prom. That’s what the helicopter was for. But we got…interrupted.”

“That is the understatement of the century,” Brooklyn said.

Rob stepped in front of us. “I tried to convince Matt to kidnap you for the proposal. But he said no. And then allthathappened. So this time, he trusted my judgement.” He slapped me on the back. “Besides, it’s like a redo of prom. Which was already a redo of the prom you missed. And now this is a redo of the proposal. But you’re already engaged… My reasoning got lost somewhere in there, but you got it. Surprise! Do you want a s’more?” He held up a bag of marshmallows.

“Yessie!” Jacob grabbed the marshmallows out of Rob’s hand and ran toward the fire.

Brooklyn laughed as Rob ran after him.

I pulled Brooklyn in close. “On prom night I planned it just being us here,” I said. “But I thought you might like this. All of us together.” I ran my fingers through her hair, untangling it from her time with a bag over her head.

“I love it,” she said.

I smiled down at her. “Yeah? The whole thing or…”

She lightly shoved my arm. “Fine. I guess even the kidnapping thing was a little funny.”

“You bit me,” I said. “You’re definitely going to pay for that.”

“And how exactly am I going to pay for that?” She smiled up at me.

“You’ll find out in the tent later,” I winked at her.

“Aren’t we sharing a tent with Jacob?”

“Tanner offered to look after Jacob tonight.” I looked over toward the fire pit. Everyone was already sitting around laughing and toasting marshmallows. Jacob was sitting on Tanner’s knee.

“That’s very nice of him,” Brooklyn said. “I really wish Tanner was more open to finding someone. He’d be a really good dad.”

Tanner was patiently trying to show Jacob how to roast one of the marshmallows. Jacob seemed to be listening. But then he whacked him with the stick instead of putting the marshmallow over the flame.

Brooklyn sighed. “I told Jacob to stop doing that. He’s going to hurt someone.”

I laughed. I wasn’t sure why Tanner was letting Jacob do it. But he didn’t seem to care at all. “I’m sure Tanner would tell him to stop if it hurt.”

“Jacob likes to play swords with sticks…” her voice trailed off when Jacob walloped Tanner with a sticky marshmallow. “Oh no.”

But Tanner just laughed and pulled the marshmallow off his cheek.

“See, Tanner’s fine,” I said.

“It’s like Jacob can do nothing bad in your eyes. I’m always the one that has to reprimand him.” She immediately pressed her lips together.

I saw the flash of pain cross her face. And I wondered if she used to say that to Miller. I cleared my throat. “We have hot chocolate too. Your favorite.”

She smiled up at me. “Thank you. We’re all going to be high on sugar. There’s no way anyone is going to get any sleep tonight.”

“No one has any plans of sleeping.” I leaned down and lightly bit her earlobe in retaliation for earlier.

She laughed. “Lead me to the hot chocolate, fiancé.”

“As you wish, fiancée.” I wrapped my arm around her and led her over to our friends.

I grabbed us each a cup of hot chocolate before sitting down beside her.

She smiled at me as she blew the steam from her cup.

I couldn’t wait to have those lips wrapped around my cock later.

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