Page 21 of A Major Puck Up

Like peaches and tequila, soft and needy and warm and tight.

Yeah, every single thing about her is imprinted in my mind. I’m not sure I could forget it if I tried, and considering I’m already actively trying to figure out how soon I can get her alone, I know I won’t be trying.

But only because I need to talk to her. Explain that I had no clue who she was. And then…

Well, then I have no fucking idea what I’ll do. The one thing I know I can’t do is fuck my best friend’s kid again, though.

She leans to one side and looks at me again, her lips pinched and her eyes swimming with dread. God, what I wouldn’t do to sit beside her and pull her onto my lap. Remove that look from her face with a kiss.

No.

No, no, no.

There will be no kisses. No smiling. From here on out, she can be no one but Millie Hall: Ford’s daughter.

And, somehow, I’ll have to find a way to be okay with that.

SIX

MILLIE

My brother gets comfortable in his seat, and for the whole trip, he doesn’t leave my side other than to pee. Even then, I can’t exactly get up and go talk to Gavin.Especially not when he’s sitting next to his brother.

We aren’t supposed to know one another. Hell, he called me a puck bunny, and then he looked utterly horrified when he found out who I really am.

I’d do just about anything to go back in time. To live in that bathtub with him. To just be the girl he opened up to, the woman he held so sweetly and kissed like he’d die if he didn’t.

My heart nearly split in two when I snuck out this morning without saying goodbye, but nothing could have prepared me for seeing him again. And I knew I’d see him. I knew this was his plane. And I knew I’d be turning his world upside down. Yet I did it all anyway.

I’m an asshole.

“Want something to drink?” Daniel stands and nods at the bar.

This plane is sick. My father has money, obviously, but not Langfield money.

Actually, now that he’s marrying Lake Paige, he probably does have Langfield money. She’s a superstar. One of the wealthiest women in the world.

I wouldn’t be surprised if her plane is even nicer than this one.

That thought has my stomach turning and my chest constricting.

I honestly don’t understand what she’s doing with my father. Yes, he’s amazing. He’s the best guy in the world—or at least he used to be.

I’m being an ass again. He’s still the best guy in the world—he’s just…God, I don’t know what he’s thinking marrying a woman who’s young enough to be his daughter.

And there go the chest pains again.

Daniel doesn’t have a problem with it, and Paul’s all I love my boyfriend, so whatever. How Paul isn’t at least half as angry as I am is beyond me. Lake was his girlfriend. Doesn’t he care? Why am I the only one bothered by this? Though I suppose I’m not completely alone in my outrage. My mother carries enough of a grudge for all of us.

“Mills,” Daniel says, hovering over me.

“Oh.” I blink myself out of my spiraling thoughts and nod. “Sure, I’ll take a margarita.”

I need something to take the edge off.

Brooks and Aiden are on their feet too, and Brooks snickers. “Tequila at nine a.m. Impressive.”

The second they’re gone, I zero in on Gavin again. I can’t stop looking at him.

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