“Hey, Ginny, you out—”
Ginny and I break apart to see her sister Gabi standing there stunned.
“Whoa, my bad,” she says in apology.
“Is she out here?” Neal says as he comes out the back door and sees the two of us on the bed tangled up. “Oh, hey, Barrett.”
“I think we should go,” Gabi says pushing on her husband.
Ginny starts laughing and covers her face, and I shake my head.
“Do you guys want to stay for dinner?” I ask, knowing I ordered enough food for ten people.
“Yeah,” Ginny says, sitting up and straightening her shirt. “Um, we’ll meet you in the kitchen.”
As Gabi and Neal go back inside we break into laughter. I pull her onto my lap and kiss her once more.
“I want to keep doing that,” she says with a pout in her voice.
“I do, too,” I say, rubbing my nose against hers. “But I don’t want to do that too fast either.”
“Trying to save your innocence?” she teases, but I take her hand and kiss her wrist again.
“Something like that,” I say, and she looks surprised. “I just know that you’re important to me, and I don’t want to rush things. I’ve waited a long time for you to walk in my life. I don’t want to hurry through the fun stuff.”
“Oh,” she says looking shy. “Sorry, I wasn’t trying to rush.”
“I know.” I kiss her again and then stand up. “But don’t worry, I’m going to do that again the second your sister and brother-in-law leave.”
“So should we just go ahead and ask them to go now, or…?” She trails off, and I laugh.
“I’m not going anywhere.”
Chapter 13
Genevieve
“So now I’m just waiting for Ginny to find a man so we can get knocked up together.” My sister stares at Barrett, making sure he’s picking up what she’s putting down.
“I can’t believe you just said that,” I groan as I bury my face in my hands. Luckily Barrett laughs beside me, so maybe he thinks it’s a joke.
“I’m not joking.” My sister’s face is a serious as can be.
I should have seen this coming when I knew they were staying for dinner. Leave it to my sister to cut right to the chase. It’s probably how she ended up married so fast. Once her mind is set on something, there’s no stopping it. God, I love her, but right now I want to choke her. Or shove a slice of pizza in her mouth. I’m going to murder her when we’re all alone. I know Barrett made the offhand comment when we were on the swing, but holy cow, my sister is going to scare him off.
“I’ve always wanted a big family.” Barrett leans back, putting his arm on the back of my chair. I feel his thumb stroke my shoulder.
“Us too. What if we both had twins, Ginny!” Gabi wiggles in her seat excitedly.
I try and keep my mind from roaming to the things Barrett would have to do to me to get me pregnant. His gentle touch against my back isn’t helping. And how can such a simple touch feel so erotic? Now I’m trying not to wiggle in my seat.
Neal sits there staring at his wife like he always does. I watch him lean over and kiss her neck before whispering something in her ear.
“I’m not embarrassing them,” Gabi blurts out, looking at Neal like he’s the crazy one.
I showed Gabi and Neal around the house, letting them see the things Barrett had done. Barrett stayed in the kitchen and set the table, so Gabi immediately started peppering me with questions about him. Then when we all sat down for dinner she asked him a million questions about his life and background. I enjoyed learning about him until somehow everything shifted to babies. I really shouldn’t be surprised because my sister has baby fever, so naturally everything goes back to that.
“Not at all,” Barrett says, and I peek over at him to see he’s smiling.
“Careful or she’ll start planning our wedding,” I joke, but Barrett shrugs as if to say, Have at it.
I lick my lips, unable to pull my eyes away from him. He winks at me as my sister goes back to all her questions.
I try to listen, but my thoughts drift to his lips on mine and his heavy body pressed against me. I’d never been so turned on in my whole life, and I shift in my chair when my arousal becomes too much.
“We’ll all go together. Right, Ginny?” At the sound of my name, I pull my eyes from Barrett’s to Gabi, and I notice everyone is staring at me.
“What?” I’ve completely missed whatever it was she was saying.
“That we can all go to the fair together this weekend.”
“We’d love to,” Barrett answers for me.
“Yay. It’s like a double date. We haven’t done that since…” She stops talking when she realizes Neal and Barrett are in the room with us then rolls her eyes. “It was a disaster. No need to get jealous. Ginny almost killed the poor boy.”