Page 116 of Unforgettable
My jaw bounced off the top of the bar when someone tapped me on the shoulder from behind.
I spun in my chair and lost my fucking breath. The greenest eyes on the planet beamed at me. My heart thumped, thudded, and thrashed.
Follow the yellow brick road.
Haven awarded me with a smile that had my cock reacting, my mouth watering, and my heart beating out of my chest.
Never in my life had I felt so emotional over one person before. Her presence did crazy things to my head, my body, and my soul. I wasn’t a dramatic guy, but fuck. She was the moon, the stars, the sun, and the whole damn planet.
My hands shook as I reached out to touch her just to be sure she was there. “I didn’t see you come in.”
“We had her come in through the kitchen,” Lucas said.
Lucas?
I whipped my head to the right to find Lucas standing beside Vicki.
“Close your mouth, dude. You’re drooling.”
I had every right to drool at my girl as I shaped her waist then brought her closer to me. “Hey, dollface.”
She drank me in, sucked me in, and pulled me in with her aura. “Hey, big guy.”
I had no idea what was happening, but I wasn’t complaining. “Are you crashing my date? You know I have to do this for charity.”
Haven’s tongue darted out to wet her lips. “I am your date.”
“I don’t understand.”
Vicki snickered. “I bid on you to make sure Tabitha didn’t win.”
Hell yeah.
“My father asked Vicki to make sure she could win whatever the cost,” Haven said.
I checked on my best bud. “You knew about this?”
Lucas gave me a cheeky grin. “I was all in.”
“So let me get this straight,” I said. “The man who hates me asked Vicki to win the bid for me so that Tabitha wouldn’t win?”
“That’s about right,” Lucas replied, keeping the damn smirk front and center. “It was a perfect plan. And here we are.”
“Senator Hale paid the ten grand?” I was still trying to shake off the shock. I mean, he’d set up his plan even before I had declared my love for Haven.
“Technically, you should be on a date with my dad,” Haven teased.
Teasing or not, Eugene Hale and I would probably kill each other. Still, I had a little more respect for the man now.
“In total, we blew out our goal of twenty grand,” Lucas said. “Sandra is pleased. She wants to do the event next season. Not you, of course.” He was quick to add that last sentence.
Who knew what next year would bring, though? Sure, I was off the market, and Haven was the only girl for me. But Lucas could be tied at the hip to some woman, and so could the others on the football team. But it was premature to think that far ahead.
I leaned in to give Haven a kiss when Vicki gasped.
“What is she doing here?” Vicki asked in disgust.
Haven visibly tensed when she saw Beverly.
