Page 5 of Making Home with You
“Me!”Kelsey yells out, bouncing up on her tiptoes as she tosses a hand in the air.
“I’m out, clearly,” Erin adds with a pouty face, but Ryan assures her he’ll drink enough for all three of them.Sometimes I wonder if he’s really cut out for this whole fatherhood thing.
“I’ll take one,” says a deep voice from behind and I watch the guy I fucked in the bathroom stroll up and kiss Kelsey and Erin on the top of the head, and shake hands with Beck and Ryan.
It takes him a second before his gaze falls on me and the shock on his face absolutely mirrors what’s on my face.I get that this is a small ass town, but the last fucking thing I thought would happen is currently happening.
As much as I wished I would run into him, I really didn’t want it to be in the company of my brother and his friends.There’s no way this is going to end well with how Ryan has responded to my past hookups.And to make matters worse, he is clearly close with my brother’s group of friends.
As I stand here, chewing on my bottom lip, taking in his muscled frame and shockingly good looks, I realize he looks even better than I remember.My memory did not do him justice and today he’s wearing a pair of slim-fit jeans and a tight gray sweater.Holy fucking shit.
Ryan calls my name and I avert my eyes from my mystery man’s rock hard body and my thoughts of what he would look like naked.
“Yeah?”I answer, my eyes blinking, swallowing hard as I try to clear my head and remove my what-the-fuck face.
“You okay?You’re being weird,” Ryan says and shakes his head not waiting for me to answer.“I don’t think you’ve met Finn.This is Beck’s brother, Finn O’Loughlin.Finn this is my sister Sarah.”
I reach my hand out and Finn takes it cautiously, my fingers grazing the inside of his wrist as he tightens his grip.The jolt of electricity that moves through both of us causes my hand to remain in his longer than necessary.And I can’t help but I wonder if everyone in this room can feel the sexual tension that is radiating between us.
“It’s nice to meet you,” I say, moving closer so he can hear me over the noise of the crowded pub, my hand still in his, and he glares at me.I can’t stop the giggle that escapes my mouth, and when I look at Erin she gives me a serious side eye.I have a feeling she knows something is up, but she wouldn’t dare say it out loud in front of all these people.
“You too,” he responds, but his tone is formal and his expression is almost angry.I wet my lips and give him a small smile, and I swear I see the corner of his mouth pull up on one side.
“Off duty already?”Kelsey asks as Finn takes down his shot.
“Surprisingly, yes,” Finn says, his eyes still trained on me.“But you know how that goes.”He shrugs his shoulders and signals the waitress for another drink.
We spend the next half hour chatting and laughing, and then someone announces we have ten minutes until midnight, and that’s when the conversation takes an unexpected turn.
“I swear to god if you two fuck in my bathroom again, you’re going to be banned from ever coming in here,” Beck shouts over the crowd and the music.
My wide eyes immediately make contact with Finn’s and for a split second I think Beck is talking about us, but then I watch as everyone looks at Erin and Ryan.His mouth is on her neck and she’s leaning into him with a cheeky smile on her face.
I’ve never been more mortified by my actions in my life.I can’t believe I’ve now had sex with someone in the same place as my brother.And by the stories that are pouring out of Beck and Kelsey, it wasn’t a one-time thing.
“Listen,” Ryan says, his tone assertive, but I know he’s not serious.“I’m not sure you can ban me from a place that I now own a portion of, and if we’re staking claim here, Erin and I get the ladies’ room.You can have the men’s room.”
Before the conversation can go any further, a five minute warning and a last call for drinks rings out before the new year.Kelsey grabs us all another shot and a glass of champagne, holding her shot up she calls out, tipping her shot toward me, “To a great year and to new friends.”
I put my shot back, setting the glass down on the table as I lean over to Erin, letting her know that I’m going to the bathroom.
“Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!”she calls out, laughing and the look on Finn’s face nearly gives away that we’ve definitely done what she’s done.But even worse is the look on Ryan’s face that screams I shouldn’t be fucking anyone, let alone someone in a public bathroom.
I shake my head at her and make my way to the bathroom.The crowd of people is thick and with the buzz I now have going, I’m struggling to get through.
When I finally make it near the bathroom, a hand suddenly grabs hold of my upper arm, stilling me and I can feel the weight of Finn’s body pressing against my back.My heart begins to race as desire swirls inside me and I know that Finn feels it too.
“You could have told me who you were,” he says tightly, but breathlessly, his lips next to my ear as he walks me into the hallway with the bathrooms, his body still pressed into mine.
Turning around, looking up at him through my lashes I ask, “What fun would that have been?You weren’t exactly open with me either.”
“Your brother is going to fucking kill me.Kill me with his bare hands,” Finn groans, running a hand through his hair.
“He never has to know,” I respond, this time stepping closer to him as he moves us both into a corner at the end of the hallway.
“Do you have any idea…” Finn starts but stops quickly, again tugging a hand through his hair.“Your brother hates me, and this,” he says, motioning with his hand between us, “is only going to add another reason to the list.”
“Fuck him,” I say, rolling my eyes, hating the fact that Ryan can be so controlling.I don’t even live here, so the idea that this could carry on longer than the length of my visit is probably pushing it.
