Total pages in book: 98
Estimated words: 95712 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 479(@200wpm)___ 383(@250wpm)___ 319(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 95712 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 479(@200wpm)___ 383(@250wpm)___ 319(@300wpm)
Now surprise crossed her face. “You want to eat in town?”
“If you’re okay with that?”
There went those pink cheeks again. “I’d love it.”
Rhett grabbed Emeline’s hand, then mine. “This is the best week ever!”
Exchanging an amused smile with Emeline, I said, “Do you want us to pick you up?”
She shook her head. “No, I’ll meet you both there, that way you don’t have to drive in the opposite direction. What time?”
I glanced down at Rhett. “I can promise you he’s going to fall asleep on the ride home, so maybe let’s say around six?”
“Six is perfect.”
A bubble of excitement built up, and I almost laughed. I hadn’t felt like this in…a very long time. “We’ll see you then.”
Rhett hugged Emeline again and repeated my words. “See you then!”
She chuckled and echoed, “See you both then.”
I took Rhett’s hand and we started for the exit. I could feel Emeline’s eyes on us as we retreated. Holding the door for my son, I glanced back and smiled when she lifted her hand in a wave. I waved back, walked through the door, and drew in a deep breath.
Was I ready for this? I wasn’t sure my heart was ready to fall in love yet, but it was going to be really fucking hard not to let it.
Emeline
“I want to know everything!”
I jumped and nearly let out a scream as I turned and saw Lilibeth. She stood there with a shit-eating grin on her face.
“What are you talking about?”
Folding her arms over her chest, she stared at me. “Don’t even try that with me, Emeline Wilde. First of all, your face has been beaming all day. I know the look of a woman who’s been thoroughly…satisfied. Second, Levi was wearing the same clothes he’d worn the day before. Someone should really alert him to the emergency bag idea.”
“Emergency bag idea?”
She looked surprised. “You don’t have an emergency bag in your car?”
I shook my head. “Nope.”
“Oh gosh. That’s rule number one. You always carry a small bag that has a change of clothes, an emergency toothbrush and toothpaste, deodorant—perfume, of course,” she added with a wink. “And a fresh set of undergarments.”
“Undergarments? What are you, eighty?”
She laughed. “Fine, bra and panties. You never know when you’ll need it. For instance, if you decide to hook up with someone. Then you have your emergency bag and you don’t have to do the walk of shame the next day.”
“You mean an overnight bag?”
She shrugged. “Call it what you want, everyone should have one. But enough about that. What happened?” Hooking her arm through mine, she guided me over to one of the sofas in the common area.
We sat down, and I glanced around. Almost everyone had left. The only people still around were Charlotte, Lilibeth, me, and a couple volunteers who were currently helping Charlotte get the kitchen in order.
“It’s just us,” Lilibeth said. “Now spill!”
Dropping my head back against the sofa, I sighed. “Oh, Lilibeth. I had the most amazing night and morning with Levi.”
She squealed quietly. “Tell me everything! I need to live through your adventures since I’m not having any of my own.”
“Well, we’d agreed to go on a date this weekend, when camp was over.”
“Right, I know all of that. What I want to know is what happened between when you left last night and arrived this morning.”
“I’m getting there!”
We both sat up, turned, and sat crisscross, facing one another.
“Levi showed up last night out of the blue. I invited him in and…I don’t know what came over me, Lilibeth, but I just took charge. I wanted him, he was in my house, and I just… I climbed onto his lap.”
She gasped. “You brazen little thing!”
I laughed. “God, I have never had a man make me feel like Levi did. I orgasmed for the first time with a guy inside of me without having to touch myself, or have him touch me. It was heavenly.”
“I’ve never had that happen to me before, either.”
“Orgasm during sex?”
She shook her head ruefully. “Of course, it’s kind of hard when I’ve never slept with anyone.”
My mouth dropped open in shock. “Lilibeth…you’re a virgin?”
She smiled. “I am.”
“How? I mean, you’re twenty-nine. And you’re gorgeous!”
She chuckled and shrugged. “I just haven’t met the guy I want to give myself to. I’ve dated, but nothing serious. No long-term relationships. Once they found out I wasn’t going to sleep with them, most of them broke up with me pretty quickly.”
“Wow. I admire you for that. Good on you!”
“I mean, I can’t say I’m a total virgin virgin. I am, after all, only human, and I have desires. I have a BOB. He brings me great pleasure and I don’t have to worry about him cheating.”
“Have you been cheated on by actual boyfriends?”
She nodded. “A few times. I know it was because I was steadfast in waiting to feel that intimate connection. I have terrible taste in men. But enough about me. Keep telling me about your night.”