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I took one more swipe of the inside of her mouth and pulled back, planted a light kissonher lips and then kissed her forehead before Ireleasedher and stepped away.

Bailey’s eyes were clouded, her face wore a look of confusion as she blinked and looked up at me.

“Why did you do that?” I looked down at her and smiled.

“Just my way of letting you know I’m coming for you. See you later, Bay.” I turned and walked to my bike. When I reached it, I mounted, and not one word was said by my brothers. The smiles that were spread across their faces was all that was needed.

Chapter Six

Bailey

“You want to talk about what’s bothering you, honey?” I closed the lid on the cake box. I knew my mom was worried. Yesterday, I had entered the bakery and went straight to the back with only a ‘hey’ to my mom. She tried a dozen times to get me to tell what was bothering me until finally she just gave up.

After we closed the shop and headed home, it was no different. We cooked dinner in silence and then watched TV with minimal conversation before I finally just said goodnight and went to bed. Sleep was hard tofind,and when it came, Lance filled my dreams. I woke a hot, sweatymessthat had nothing to do with nightmares, which I should have been thankful, but I wasn’t. Instead, I was mad at my body for defying me. Even now if I thought of the kiss, my heartbeat pickedup,and my stomach felt as if butterflies filled it.

The shower I’d taken this morning, well, it had released a small amount of tension, only after I sat on the bench, spread my legs, and turned the vibrator on that I had snagged out of my nightstand. My clit pulsed and hardened as I moved the vibrator back and forth teasing myself. I closed my eyes and thought of Lance: his touch, his lips on mine, then his descent down my body. I’d tweaked and pulled at my nipples as I imagined he sucked and licked them until they were peaked. As he reached my pussy, his tongue pressed on my clit, then moved to breach me, tonguing me to the brink before he stopped. I’d seen him behind my closed eyes as if he stood in the shower stall with me.

He pumped his cock, then he positioned me with my hands on the bench and my ass in the air as he entered me with one thrust of his hips. He pounded into me until we both climaxed. When I came down from my orgasm and opened my eyes, I was leaning against the wall, my vibrator buzzing in my hand. I was surprised my mom wasn’t beating on the door because when my orgasm had hit, “Lance” was torn frommy throat.

“Bailey, are you okay? Your face is flushed.” The worry in my mom’s voice made me realize how unfair Iwasto her. After everything she’d beenthrough, she didn’t deserve my crazy.

“He kissed me,” I blurted out as I looked up at her from across the table.

“He who, Bailey? You haven’t been the same since you came back yesterday from Mac’s office and lunch. Did something happen during lunch? Did you not get the job?”

I pinched my nose between my finger and thumb, took a deep breath, and let it out slowly. When I dropped my hand away from my face, I looked into my mom’s eyes.

“Lance,” was all I said and she nodded, then a smile started to spread. “I’m glad you find this amusing.”

“Well, I should have known. You used to act the same way when you two were together.”

“I most certainly did not do that.”

“Bailey, how do you think I knew you were doing more than kissing Lance?”

“Because I asked you to take me to the doctor so I could get on birth control.”

“I had already had an appointment made for you to see the doctor, that was why we got in so quick. I knew because at first, you would come home after being with him and tell me what the two of you did in detail. Then one day you came home, and nothing from you other than you had fun. Later, I would catch youdaydreaming,and you would smile to yourself. It had been that way for me with your dad, Bailey. I imagine it’s like that for most young girls. For me, I knew that day, I was getting to watch my young daughter fall in love for the first time.” When I didn’t respond, she continued,“I guessif he kissed you, at some point yesterday you must have run into him?”

I nodded and began to tell my mom about everything from my talk with Mackenzie to Sami being pregnant, and then moved on to Lance. My mom listened without interruption as I went on and on. When I told her about the kiss and what Lance had said before he walked away and left me standing there, she was fanning herself.

That small gesture made me laugh. And sharing the events, getting them out in the open and off my chest, did wonders for me.

“Wow, that is just...I don’t know what to say other than he has grown up into a helluva man.” My mom kept fanning herself and grinning.

“I’m yourdaughter,and you’re impressed with the man who kinda threatened me!”

“Pfft! Honey, that was not threatening. That, my dear, was a man going for what he wants. And it seems to be you.”

“No, I refuse to deal with this. I was only hurt the first time around, I’m afraid if I allow a second and it ends...it could break me.” The last part Iwhispered,and Mom moved around the counter and put her arms around me.

“Honey, do you think Lance set out the first time to hurt you?”

“No, I don’t want to believe he could ever be cruel like that.” I laid my head on my mom’s shoulder and liked she done a hundred times with me, she moved a hand over the back of my head. It had comforted me when I wasyoung,and it had the same effect on me now.

“When you and Lance started dating, your daddy worried. At first, it was because those boys had reputations that followed them all over town. But the longer you two were together, his worry changed. Like me, he saw the two of you becoming closer, getting attached to one another. And he saw how Lance looked at you when he thought no one was watching, and it scared your dad.” I lifted my head and moved out of her arms.

“Why?”

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