Wrapping my other hand around her, I pick her up and hold her against me in the pike position while walking toward the bed.

I can’t believe I get to love her for the rest of my life. That those blue eyes which render me speechless are those I will get to stare into when we say I do, welcome our first born, and sit on that front porch swing at the end of a long, happy life.

When we reach the bed, I place one knee on the mattress and ease her down gently. Pushing herself up with both elbows, she kicks up one leg seductively, giving me a peek of her perfect pussy.

“Aren’t we supposed to be packing?”

I reach for the back of my shirt and pull it over my head, then toss it onto the floor. “Fuck packing. You started it.”

I crawl toward her, placing one hand on the bed, running my knee against her entrance while bending down to suck one of her perfect, perky tits.

“Our flight leaves in a few hours,” she runs a hand through my hair, nails scraping my scalp as I run circles around her nipple.

“Don’t care,” I murmur. “We’ll catch the next one.”

With finals over and another College World Series trophy in the bag, we’re headed to Cherry Cove for a couple of weeks with Cruz and Ellery.

Both Jenica and Ellery refuse to let what happened last summer taint their love for the place. For Jenica, it will always be home, no matter how far her dreams take her, and for Ellery it will always be the place where she lost her true love, found her best friend, and then found her love again.

I can’t wait to spend the next couple of weeks staying up late, sleeping in, and spending every second with my girl that I can because as soon as we get back it’s summer school for Cruz and me, while Ellery and Jenica get to enjoy the rest of their summer.

If anyone deserves a break it’s Jenica. Between her family’s store and the boardwalk, she has worked every summer since she was a kid. But this year, for the first time in her life, she’s doing something she hasn’t ever been able to do—taking a load off—because she is no longer worried about saving for her dream. Through the chaos, good won, and her dream is finally coming true.

Coach may have called in a favor to the CU girl’s coach, but Jenica is a natural and her arm got her a spot on the team. I was there when she tried out. Flew out to meet her after a series in Ohio and made it just in time for her first pitch.

Her spot on the team came with a full ride and with her enrollment at CU locked in, Ellery filed her own transfer papers and got her acceptance a few weeks back. She was keeping an eye on houses up there and planning to look more seriously in the fall. But this time, I suggested Cruz and I go in on it half and half and she agreed.

While that catcher/pitcher bond between Jenica and I is really something, she and Cruz have a real pitcher/pitcher competition going on. The two talk shit like Ellery and I do, and when she and Cruz head into the back yard for pitch offs, I love to catch for both of them, whistling for my girl when she beats my best friend.

Our time at Highland has an expiration date, but we do not. Jenica is my forever. When I could no longer play ball and my days were filled with sunrises and sunsets, it was her I would drink in those first and last moments of light with each day. I couldn’t believe I lucked out. She even charmed my mom, and sister, and when the three of them gang up against me, I am a goner…and it is truly the best.

Jenica Dawn Miller is a force to be reckoned with and I feel sorry for any obstacle life throws at her because she will obliterate it. But for those hurdles that may need a little extra muscle, I’ll be standing by, ready to have her back.

“Name your pleasure,” I drink her in, wanting her in every way imaginable.

Her eyes drag down my body, landing in the bulge in my shorts. “You know what I want.”

Reaching for the waistband of my shorts, she pulls them down, cock springing free. Pushing me onto my back, she crawls between my legs, wraps one hand around the shaft and grips my thigh with the other.

Lowering her head, she wraps her mouth around the tip, sucking gently, humming while swinging that beautiful round ass of hers back and forth like a cat with a toy.

“Shit, Sparky.” I drop my head down on the pillow and let out a groan. “My dick in your mouth and your ass in the air, it’s a beautiful thing.”

I never believed I would ever feel all the things I do with Jenica, but when we’re together I see the world in colors I never saw before. I not only want to give her everything, but I want everything, and I know it’s okay to feel both because she does too.

She was afraid to trust, and I was afraid to feel, but together, we met each other halfway and now we’re insatiable. We may not have the same path and past that Cruz and Ellery have, but there’s no less love here. And I love her. I do. In so many ways it’s unreal. That connection we share—one of trust, loyalty, safety, security, and friendship—it’s rooted in the promise of forever, and I can’t help but think sky’s the limit.

She pops me out of her mouth and looks up. “How’s that Hot Shot?”

I look down, finding her beautiful blue eyes wide on mine. I love being the only guy she’s sucked, and I love being the only guy she’s let fuck and fill her. Something I plan to do right now.

“Hey…” She laughs as I sit up and push her onto her back. “I wasn’t done.”

“You are for now because I need to fill you, Sparky.”

I kiss my way down her body, stopping at that sweet, warm spot between her legs and sink two fingers into her. Lowering my mouth to her pussy, I flick and suck the way I know she likes, curling my fingers, working her cunt with my hand, while my tongue laps at her clit.

I love that I am the only one she is like this with. Submissive, compliant—ready to do anything I want—and I love that she is the only one I can be this way with—dominant, hungry and possessive as fuck.