Page 134 of The Shake Off

He smiled at me, his bright blue eyes widening in amusement, though his silence sent me into another spiral.

“And if perhaps you have missed me, then maybe you could forgive me enough to give me another chance and let me take you on a date. The sun is still out, we can be in daylight.”

I smiled, though it wasn’t a wide smile like his. It was a nervous smile because I still couldn’t read the expression on his face, and I was blabbering like an idiot.

He reached out, brushing his finger down the side of my cheek. “You missed me?”

I nodded and reminded myself to breathe.

“I missed you, too.”

“Really?”

He grinned, that big, wide, American cookie cutter grin which had got me into this situation in the first place, and I couldn’t have loved it more.

“Yes. If I hadn’t seen you in the suite, I’d have run out the door and come to find you. I don’t have to forgive you because there’s nothing to forgive. Penn’s the one who should be begging my forgiveness, especially after today. I missed you, really fucking missed you. I’m sorry I never messaged you. I wanted you to realize that I was telling the truth, that while you might have helped me fix my game, it was you I kept coming back for.” He brushed his thumb against my cheek, wiping away a tear. “I missed you, Payton Lopez, and I don’t plan to miss you again for a very long time… until next week on the away stretch, anyway.”

“Does this mean we can go on a daylight date?”

He nodded. “Sure does, Babycakes, but first I need to do something.”

His mouth finally fell onto mine, and he kissed me like he never intended to stop.

By the time we came up for air, it was possible no one was left in the stadium, and the moon had made an early appearance.

The daylight date would have to wait until tomorrow.

We would always have a tomorrow.

EPILOGUE

ACE

“No, your leg goes here. See?” Payton slapped the pageCosmowas open at and twisted her ass to the left.

As she did so, the tip of my dick hit her cervix and her pussy clenched hard. It was fucking incredible, but then a spasm of pain cramped in my glutes.

“Argh, fuck! Babe,” I grunted, “no.”

She pushed my leg away, attempting to lift it behind her, but it was going nowhere. I might be a professional athlete, but I wasn’t a fucking acrobat.

“No. No way. I’m calling it. This is impossible…” I tried to peer around her shoulder, “and you look like you’re in pain.”

I took both my hands to her perfect ass and squeezed it, moving her hips so I could shift her around until I was on top of her. My dick slipped out for a second, but I eased back inside her so slowly, her jaw slackened.

“Much better.” I rolled my hips, adjusting myself to her tightness, and dropped my lips down to hers. “Much,muchbetter.”

We might have been working our way through every edition ofCosmowe could find, but being here, on top of her where I could surround her and see every one of her feelings play across her face, this was and would always be my favorite position. She was so beautiful. Beneath me, her dark hair fanned out across the fluffy white pillow, the orgasmic pink glow to her cheeks that I loved so much contrasted with her deeply golden skin following the week we’d just spent in Cabo.

I don’t know how I got so lucky.

Another slow roll of my hips had Payton’s back arching almost subconsciously. Her perfect tits pushed into my face in the way she knew I loved, though it was more a borderline obsession. Dipping down, I took one of her taut nipples between my teeth, rolled my tongue over the hard nub and tugged gently, because I knew that’s whatsheloved.

“Oh, God, Ace,” she moaned loudly.

Fuck. I’d definitely become obsessed withthat;hearing my name fall off her lips while she clenched around me.

“Tell me what you want.”

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