Endless Love: The 4Ever series #3

by Isabella White

  Holly laughed so much during their conversation, and when she was done, she could hardly recognize herself.

  “Yes?” Amelia asked.

  “Thank you.” She hugged Amelia.

  Everyone applauded. “Our job here is done. You look like a princess,” Neil, the stylist said. “And you tell that hunkalicious man of yours that he needs to come for a haircut. He looks like a baboon.”

  “A very sexy baboon,” Holly joked.

  “My bad.” Neil rolled his eyes and gave Holly two kisses on each cheek. “Make sure she looks after that hair, Melia.”

  “You have my word, Neil.”

  “My stomach is growling.”

  “Have an oats bar. We will eat at lunch.” She handed her a homemade oats bar and Holly devoured the thing.

  “I need junk.”

  “No, junk is the last thing you need.”

  “I want to live, Melia. One burger isn’t going to kill me. Robin even gets that. And she’s supposed to be the sucky one.”

  “Fine, you can have your stupid burger,” Melia teased.

  “Yay!” Holly jumped up and down.

  The next stop was the mall where Melia just grabbed clothes.

  Holly had never been able to fit into a size four before, but she did now. Every item of clothing Amelia gave her was stunning and gorgeous.

  “What am I going to do with all these clothes if I pick up the weight again?”

  “Donate it. Who gives a shit?”

  Holly rolled her eyes. “This is such a waste of money.”

  “Whatever, it’s Jake’s money.”

  “I’m never going to be able to pay him back.”

  “Then do what I do sweetheart, pay it off with your body.”

  “Haha, great idea.”

  Amelia laughed.

  “My stomach is grumbling.”

  “Okay fine. I made reservation at the park.”

  Holly loved the park. It wasn’t just a park it was filled with the most beautiful trees and a few shops with roads leading all around the park. They even held picnics there for mother’s day and movie nights.

  She remember the first time Jake took her there and read to her underneath one of the trees.

  He was really perfect and still the same guy. She should’ve never run. She’d been so stupid.

  The drive was filled with music blaring and the two girls singing.

  Holly did funny little dances and Amelia copied her.

  She missed days like these where it was just them. Enjoying a Saturday without the kids.

  The place was packed and Holly quickly changed her yellow top with one of the new ones.

  It felt good that her clothes fit again.

  “See, gorgeous,” Amelia said as she walked ahead of Holly.

  The place was buzzing with people and the girl at the front took them to a table outside that looked out over the entire park.

  They sat at a table in front of the big steps that led down to one of the stone paths in the park.

  Holly ordered a milkshake, not looking at Amelia’s disapproval.

  “You know what, I’m looking the other way.” She smiled and ordered her a lime and soda.

  “Are you on a diet?”

  “Yes, because I’m really getting fat.”

  “Amelia, you are perfect.”

  “Whatever.”

  “Thank you for today.”

  “It’s my pleasure.” She smiled and they fell into easy conversation.

  Holly barely got the chance to speak as Amelia babbled on, and when their drinks arrived, Amelia was still chattering.

  Then, out of the blue, EKG heartbeats played loud over the speakers. They both looked around.

  “What is this?” Amelia asked.

  Then a long flatline came. Holly hated that sound and the memories it brought on.

  Kelly Clarkson’s song Heartbeat started to play loud.

  Some of the waiters from the inside rushed to the outside and danced at all the tables.

  “What is this?” Holly asked.

  Amelia started to laugh. “I don’t know.” She looked around and looked back again. “I think it’s one of those flashmob things.”

  “Can we just go please?” Holly hid her head.

  “No, I want to watch.” Amelia said and Holly looked around too.

  The one girl at the table blushed, she was embarrassed. It was one of those. She shook her head, and Holly felt bad for her as the waiter took her hand.

  But then she started to dance with him and some guests followed their lead, dancing with all the waiters.

  What the hell? Holly looked again.

  “I guess it wasn’t her,” Amelia said as the second verse started.

  Everyone was just dancing around them. She start chuckling. “Please can we go.”

  “No, c’mon where is your spark of adventure, Holly?”

  “Not at something like this.”

  One of the dancers came over to Holly’s tables.

  “Please just go,” Holly begged him and Amelia laughed.

  The waiter was dumbstruck.

  “We’re not part of this.”

  Amelia got up. “Says who?” she yelled and made her own dance moves as the chorus played.

  Holly gaped at her and started laughing.

  “Amelia, sit down.”

  She was so wacky, she didn’t even know the moves.

  She looked back at the waiter again who was still begging for her hand. “We are really not part of this.”

  “You sure, she seems to know the moves?”

  Holly looked at Amelia, and all the dancers start to dance like she did. “What is this?”.

  Oh please don’t let me be the idiot. I will kill her.

  The chorus finished and the verses started again.

  Her eyes caught more people coming this way. Her mom was carrying Bradley in a pouch in front of her, with Bernie and a group of others, and on the opposite side Mara, with Cooper in a pouch with Robin, holding Jamie’s hand, leading another group of people.

  “Mom?” Holly yelled and closed her eyes.

  Amelia laughed.

  “What is this? No.” She shook her head as her mother and Mara started dancing in front of her table. Bernie, Robin, even Jamie did the same moves.

  She just started to laugh.

  “You are dead,” she told them all.

  A hand asking for hers popped in between their bodies, and she caught sight of Rodney wearing a baseball cap.

  “You know I hate this.”

  “Just go with it, baby,” he said and she took his hand, only to be twirled into him and be picked up as he walked with her off the steps.

  She grunted playfully in his arms. “You are all fucking dead,” she yelled and Rodney put her down, twirled her out as Kelly sang her heart out.

  Next she was in Armand arms and he led the dance further.

  She was probably red in her face.

  “Just go with it, Holly,” he said and she realized this wasn’t Amelia.

  “Jake is behind this.”

  He laughed, and Gus took over from Armand. She laughed as she danced with him. He sang along with the song and she wanted to cover her ears. He was that bad.

  He twirled her out and she fell into Leo’s arms.

  “I’m gonna go to jail for mass murder,” she said.

  “Nah, you love us,” he teased.

  He led her in a dance all the way to one of the big trees .

  She just wanted to disappear and then the song just ended, with more heartbeats just beating faster, like hers.

  They all applauded as she just stood there under a tree.

  “Okay where the hell is he?”

  “I’m right here, bee puke,” his voice came from behind her and she turned around.

  She slapped him playfully. “Why would you do that? So embarrassing.” She didn’t even see the microphone thingy that was hanging from his mouth.

  “You love me, I know you do,” hi
s voice blared over the speaker.

  “What the hell are you doing?” She covered her face, wishing the world could open and swallow her whole.

  When she took away her hands, Jake was on one knee with a stunning diamond ring nestled in an open box.

  She blinked at it, the air in her lungs whooshing out of her.

  “Holly, my baby, my sweetheart, my life,” he said over the mike.

  “No one will ever love you more than this idiot, well except my mom—she gave you her organs.”

  The crowd behind her made aww-ing sounds.

  “Would you please do me the honor of becoming mine forever and ever?”

  Tears filled her eyes. “You’re asking me to marry you?”

  “Well it seems that way.”

  She just paused. “Holy fuck, yes,” she screamed and jumped into him and they both fell to the ground. Their lips met and she kissed him like she always had. Vigorously and passionately.

  Everyone applauded and they finally broke apart.

  Tears rolled down her cheek. “I thought you’d never ask.”

  “You thought wrong. I guess you didn’t see the pathetic attempt at the hospital. My mother stopped me. She said it wasn’t appropriate, that you needed to be awake.”

  “I like her more and more,” she said softly and kissed him again.

  She broke the kiss with a laugh, then stared at Jake with narrowed eyes.

  “What?”

  “This was what Jamie was talking about, wasn’t it?”

  “Yes, the little shit. I thought she almost gave it away.”

  They both laughed and kissed each other one more time.

  Twenty-Five

  They all had lunch in the park at a bigger and more private section.

  She couldn’t stop looking at her ring as she sat next to Jake.

  It was really not the way she even dreamed he would ask her but he’d made it more special by involving everyone she loved.

  She had a burger and a salad while they talked about the flashmob.

  “Mom’s moves were the best. Why didn’t I get to dance with you?” Holly looked at Frank who was sitting next to her mother.

  “Because uncle Frankie is one of the worst dancers there is,” Jake teased.

  “Two left feet, sweetheart.”

  “So when is the big date?” Amelia asked.

  “Jeez woman, he just asked me.”

  “Soon,” Jake answered and Holly raised an eyebrow at him.

  “Really, just like that?”

  “I wanted to elope,” he said in all seriousness. “But your mother threatened to perform my vasectomy with a butter knife if we did, so big wedding it is.”

  Holly giggled. It felt good to laugh again

  The lunch carried on until two, then they all met up at Mara and Gus’s house. They swam the rest of the day and the kids had a ball.

  Even the twins and Bernie’s baby.

  Jake and Armand took them until it started to get too rough between Jake and Armand and the two aunts took the boys so they could wrestle each other in the pool. Leo jumped in between them.

  Jamie swam with Jane, who was busy teaching her how to paddle and Holly looked on from the sidelines.

  Mara came to sit next to her and handed her an ice tea.

  “Just the way we need it,” she said and took a sip. She wasn’t alone in this and Mara would never let her forget about it.

  “The ring is so beautiful,” Mara said.

  “Thank you, he really has great taste.”

  “Oh that he has. He is marrying the bravest woman I’ve ever met, even if it took me a long time to seen it. Thank you, Holly, for coming back.”

  “Thank you for giving me that chance,” she said.

  She laughed again.

  “Only my pleasure, sweetheart,” Mara said and grabbed her around the neck gently with one arm and kissed Holly on the temple.

  “No more sorrys,” Holly said.

  “I’ll try.”

  “Okay.” Holly smiled contentedly.

  Then Gus came and picked Mara up and threw her over his shoulder.

  “You are going to pull a muscle. Your back, Gus,” she yelled.

  “I’m as fit as a fiddle.”

  “Chuck her in, Dad,” Ben yelled. He was a younger version of Jake.

  Gus jumped into the pool with Mara as she protested wildly.

  Holly laughed. Never in a million years had she thought her life would be this perfect.

  Mara was like a cat in the water, but dunked her husband.

  They still had so much love for one another and she knew that they would face anything together as she watched them share a kiss.

  She wasn’t just Holly’s hero.

  “Eww,” Amelia yelled.

  “Eww,” Jake and Robin, followed.

  Then the other three yelled it too and the kiss broke.

  Gus pretended to grab Mara and kiss her passionately and their kids splashed water at them.

  Jake swim to the edge and climbed out the water.

  Her heart skipped a few beats as his perfectly toned body breached the water. He still made her body heat up with lust.

  He came to lie on his mother’s chair and kissed her.

  “Have I told you how beautiful you look today?”

  “No, and here I thought you didn’t even notice.”

  “Oh you can be glad there are people here,” he teased and nipped at her earlobe.

  “Jake,” she laughed as he grabbed her tighter so she couldn’t get out of his grip.

  “Toss her in the water,” Gus yelled.

  “No,” Holly warned him.

  “Oh and who is going to stop me? You?”

  “Jake, no.” She laughed as he jumped up with her squirming in his arms.

  “Please, don’t, please, please, please,” she begged him.

  She clung to him for dear life.

  “Okay, I won’t. I won’t, I won’t.” He stopped right at the edge and she relaxed as he kissed her.

  “I lied,” he murmured and stepped into the pool.

  She came up for air, gasping and sputtering, with the entire crowd laughing at her.

  “You athhole,” she said the word wrong so that Jamie wouldn’t learn it as she spat water in his face.

  Her clothes clung to her body and she swam to the edge of the swimming pool.

  He grabbed her foot just as she was ready to pull herself out of the water and she found herself in his arms.

  She laughed as he played with her and when he finally let her go, she took Bradley from Amelia and cuddled him.

  He loved the water, and chuckled out of his belly. Cooper mimicked his brother and Holly giggled.

  There was just something with them. Whenever Bradley laughed out of his belly, Cooper’s laughter would follow, and it was music to her ears.

  Most of the adults got out of the pool, leaving only Ben, and Jamie with Sam and Layla, Bernie’s little girl in the pool.

  Holly and Bernie dressed the boys in dry clothes as Amelia kept them company and gave them each a bottle as they lay outside in their portable cribs.

  They all ate dinner, and then Holly went to bathe the boys and put them down for the night. They were spending the night again. Her mother and Frank had also been invited to spend the night, which had led to Jamie wanting to stay as well. She and Jake said their goodbyes once all the kids were settled in.

  Holly felt empty as they went home without any of the children.

  Jake pulled her into his arms once they were inside their house and kissed her before she could protest.

  His hands grabbed her ass firmly and moved down to the back of her legs, then he picked her up.

  Her legs wrapped around his waist and he carried her up the stairs without breaking their kiss.

  Her ears were already singing with the way he kissed her and she could feel her hormones climbing the steps fast. She finally wanted this and tonight there were no little ears or cries to worry about.
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  The door closed behind him and she felt the bed beneath her as he pinned her down with his body.

  His kisses ignited her skin wherever he planted them and she breathed heavily as he moved toward her shorts.

  He swiftly unbuttoned them and pulled her shorts and underwear off, Holly wiggling her hips to help him.

  He latched onto her pussy, licking and sucking at her swollen nub.

  She arched her back instantly. His one finger slipped inside of her as he flicked his tongue against her clit. Soft moans left her mouth.

  She bit on her lower lip hard and clutched her own hair as she succumbed to the pleasure he was dragging out of her.

  He groaned as if it was his favorite thing in the entire world and she panted.

  Her eyes closed as she gave herself over to the feel of his mouth on her.

  His lips moved up to her stomach and he gently glided his tongue over her torso. He lifted up her shirt as he went and as he was about to reach her breast he pulled it off.

  Her legs wrapped around his waist again and she pulled his shirt up, stroking his skin.

  Goosebumps flushed over his flesh and he smiled against her lips.

  A grunt left his mouth as his shirt disappeared fast and he kissed her harder.

  His hand pressed beneath her back and he unhooked her bra.

  Her breasts fell free and his hand cupped the one immediately while he took the other into his mouth.

  His other free hand trailed towards her slick folds and he slipped a finger into her.

  He rolled slightly off her and admired her body, then he devoured her body with his lips, his tongue, his fingers.

  She was on the brink of ecstasy, but she needed him inside her.

  “Dammit,” she moaned. “Just fuck me please.”

  He didn’t say anything but she could feel vigorous movements as he slid off his shorts, and then he was inside in her in one swift motion.

  She groaned as he filled her and his lips moved in her neck.

  The movements became deeper, harder and faster and her volume increased with every slam of him inside her.

  “Fuck,” she yelled through clenched teeth. “I’m close.” She bit his shoulder and he grabbed her hips and pounded into her.

  Her moaning turned to wailing and then she screamed as her orgasm tore violently through her.

  She dug her heels into his ass as her body trembled but he didn’t stop.

  She knew he wasn’t done with her yet.