Page 93 of This Heart
Her fingers tangled in my hair while she lifted her hips for more. “You’re so good at that. Oh my gosh. Yes. Don’t stop!”
Less than a minute later, Aurora was crying out my name as she came. I would never get used to hearing my name spill from her lips in the throes of passion. I’d dreamed of hearing it, but experiencing it was something completely different.
When she scrambled to get away, I looked up and smiled.
“I can’t.” Her chest rose and fell. “It tickles, and I’m so late because of you!”
“If making you come makes you late for work, then sign me up!”
She laughed and quickly got out of bed. “I’ll remember that when you’re getting ready to head to The Muddled Moose!”
The image of Aurora on her knees making me come was nearly my undoing. I quickly got out of bed and headed behind her and into the bathroom.
Aurora held up her hand. “Oh, no!”
“I promise not to touch you.”
She narrowed her eyes but then turned on the water. Once it was at the right temperature, she stepped inside. I followed her, taking her bar of soap and washing her body for her. I moved quickly since I knew she was in a hurry to get down to the bookshop.
While she rinsed off, I soaped up my own body. Aurora stepped out of the shower and began to dry off as I turned the water temperature colder. I needed to get rid of my erection somehow. If this was how it was going to be around her camping, we were going to have to find a way to be quiet in that small RV.
I’d never seen anyone get ready as fast as Aurora had. She hadn’t washed her hair, and it was piled up on top of her head in a messy bun. She was already dressed when I finally got out of the shower and started to dry off.
“I’ve got to run, but make yourself at home. I’ll call you once I’m finished with lunch and make sure Lou doesn’t have any questions for when I’m gone.”
Kissing her on the lips, I fought the urge to deepen it. Now that I’d had a taste of Aurora Banks, I needed more, but it would have to wait.
“Have a good morning, and we’ll talk soon.”
She smiled, blew me a kiss, and dashed down the steps.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen you this happy before,” my father said with a wide grin.
With a smile of my own, I replied, “I don’t think I’ve been this happy before.”
He put his hand on my shoulder and gave it a light squeeze. “You deserve this happiness, Liam. I hope you know that.”
I let out a soft breath. “I do know that. I won’t lie and say that a part of me still feels guilty, but Hope and I weren’t meant to be. No matter how many times life threw us together, it wasn’t meant to happen. I just hate that Hope won’t ever get a chance to live the life that she deserved to have as well. Or watch Winnie grow up.”
“Hope can see her from where she is.”
I sighed. “You’re right.”
With a nod, he turned and faced the RV. “So you’re going to start this relationship up on a camping trip, huh?”
Laughing, I replied, “I am and lucky for me, Aurora is excited about it. I don’t want to pretend to be something I’m not this time around. I did that with Hope, and I know a part of me always hoped that she would want the same things I wanted, and she thought the same of me.”
When I stopped talking, my father said, “Does she know about Winnie?”
“Yeah,” I replied. “I told her everything.”
My father and I had always been close, and he knew everything, including my feelings for Aurora. He had never tried to tell me what to do, but allowed me to figure it out on my own, and I would forever be grateful to him for that.
“And have you decided what you’ll tell Winnie someday?”
I looked at my father. “The truth. There have been way too many secrets, and I’m done with all of that. When the time comes, she’ll know the truth. But for now, I want her to have a childhood like I did. Camping, fishing, being a part of a family that loves one another.”
A sad look appeared on my father’s face.
