FOREVER SERIES: COMPLETE BOX SET

by Lynn, Sandi

  I grabbed my toothbrush and stood in front of the sink next to hers. I could see her eyeing me up and down as I was trying to avoid looking at how sexy she looked in her little shorts and tank top. I could feel my cock starting to get hard. Oh God, not now. Once I was finished, I rinsed my toothbrush off and put it away. I turned and looked at her as she brushed her beautiful blonde hair.

  “Okay, goodnight,” I said as I tried to get out of there as fast as I could.

  “Wait,” she said.

  I turned around and looked at her. “What’s wrong?”

  “I’m thinking that maybe you should give me one more kiss goodnight.”

  I stared at her with a small smile as I placed my hands on her hips. “Your wish is my command,” I said as I leaned in closer and kissed her.

  She brought her hands up to my bare chest and softly stroked it as our lips enjoyed each other. It was torture as far as I was concerned because I wanted to be inside her so badly. I broke our soft kiss and we stared into each other’s eyes as I lifted her up and sat her on the counter. She took my hand and placed it underneath her tank top, up to her bare breast. I softly caressed her breast as I took her erect nipple between my fingers. She let out a soft moan and I immediately removed my hand.

  “You’re killing me, Amelia.”

  “I’m sorry. I just—”

  “I know,” I said as I took her face in my hands and kissed her lips. “Not here. Not in my bathroom and certainly not in my house with my parents down the hall. Wrap your legs around me.” I smiled.

  She did as I asked, and I lifted her from the counter and carried to her bed. I laid her down and kissed her forehead. “Get some sleep.” As I got up from the bed, she grabbed my hand. I turned around and looked at her.

  “When I’m with you, I forget about everything bad that’s happened in my life.”

  “Me too.” I smiled.

  “Good night, Collin.”

  “Good night, Amelia.”

  I walked back to my room and climbed into bed. I couldn’t stop thinking about her and how if I wouldn’t have stopped it, we could’ve had sex for the first time in my bathroom, with my parents down the hall. I couldn’t let that happen. With Amelia, things were different as far as sex was concerned. She wasn’t going to be a fly by night, wham bam, thank you ma’am type of fuck. I was going to make sure it would be magical and something she’d never forget. She deserved that and much more. I closed my eyes with the image of me making love to her in my mind and suddenly I was awoken by her softly calling my name.

  “Collin, are you awake?”

  I opened my eyes and all I saw was her silhouette standing next to my bed. “What’s wrong?”

  “I had a nightmare about the accident,” she whispered.

  “Come here,” I said as I patted the other side of the bed and rolled over.

  She climbed under the covers and into my arms. Her face was wet with tears and she was shaking.

  “Shh. You’re okay. I’m here,” I said as I kissed her head. I lay there with her, sheltering her from the nightmare that brought her into my arms.

  Chapter 21

  I awoke and I was alone. I got up, walked to Amelia’s room and lightly tapped on the door. When I didn’t get a response, I opened it and she wasn’t in there. I walked downstairs and found her in the kitchen with my mom making breakfast.

  “Good morning, Collin,” my mom said as she walked over and kissed my cheek.

  “Morning, Mom.”

  Amelia smiled at me as I walked over and softly kissed her on the lips. “Good morning.”

  “Good morning.” She smiled back at me.

  “Where’s Dad?”

  “He’ll be down in a minute. He was getting dressed, which is something you should already be doing, Mister,” my mom said as she pointed at me with a spatula.

  “I’m going to take a quick shower right now. I’ll be back in fifteen.”

  “Make it ten and hurry up. Breakfast is almost ready.”

  I dashed back up the stairs and hit the shower. As I was coming out of the bathroom, my dad was walking down the hall.

  “Morning, son,” he said.

  “Morning, Dad. You better hurry up and get down there for breakfast before mom yells.”

  “I already got an earful when you were in the shower. Maybe if someone would’ve just gotten out of bed instead of—”

  I covered my ears. “La la la.”

  He chuckled and walked downstairs. I followed behind a few minutes later and sat at the table for the pancake and fruit breakfast my mom and Amelia made for us before heading to the beach house.

  Amelia and I climbed into my Range Rover while my mom and dad got in theirs. My dad suggested we all drive together, but I liked to drive myself. You never knew if and when you needed to leave early. Amelia reached over and took a hold of my hand. I looked over at her and smiled.

  “I haven’t had the chance to thank you for letting me sleep in your bed last night. I’m really sorry about that.”

  “There’s no need to apologize and you’re welcome. Believe me when I say, it was my pleasure. Do you always have nightmares about the accident?”

  “Sometimes, I do.”

  I brought her hand up to my mouth pressed it against my lips. “I’ll do everything I can to prevent you from having them.”

  We arrived at the beach house and I pulled up beside by dad. I grabbed my and Amelia’s bags and headed upstairs to my room.

  Julia and Jake will be staying across the hall in her room and you can stay in the guest room next to mine. It used to be my mom and dad’s room until my dad added an addition with bedrooms to the back of the house. It got to be really annoying when they would constantly have sex and I could hear them.

  “Your mom and dad are so cool and so in love.” She laughed.

  “Yeah well sometimes they have a problem keeping their hands off each other, especially in front of people.”

  “I think it’s great.”

  I took her bags to the room next door and set them on the bed. “Jake and Julia should be here soon.”

  We walked downstairs and my mom and dad were in the kitchen kissing. I rolled my eyes.

  “See, told you. Excuse me, parents. We have company and she’s not yet accustomed to your open sexual behavior so could you please tone it down and not embarrass your son in front of his girlfriend.”

  They both stood there and looked at me. “Didn’t you warn Amelia about us?” my mom asked.

  “Yes, I did. But still.”

  “It’s okay. I think it’s wonderful.” Amelia smiled.

  “See, son. She doesn’t mind.” My dad chuckled.

  “Why did you tell them that?”

  She giggled as I grabbed her hand and led her down to the beach. I ran into the water until it was up to my knees, and when I turned around, I saw Amelia standing at the shoreline.

  “Come here,” I said as I It held out my hand.

  “No. I’m fine right here.”

  “Amelia. What’s wrong?”

  She stared straight ahead at the water and then it hit me, the accident. The things she experienced in the water. She was scared. She was too scared to go in the water. I walked back up to the shore and wrapped my arms around her.

  “It’s okay. We can go another time.”

  “I don’t go in the water anymore, Collin. Not since the accident and that’s how it’s going to stay.”

  Just as I was about to say something, I heard Julia yell my name.

  “Collin, Amelia!” She waved from the house.

  “Come on, let’s go see Julia and Jake.” I smiled as I took her hand.

  We ran up the house and I shook Jake’s hand and hugged my sister. “Whoa,” I said as I placed my hand on her belly. “It’s getting impossible to hug you anymore.”

  Julia laughed as she playfully hit me on my arm. She took Amelia inside and I stayed outside with Jake. A few moments later, my dad came walking out with a couple of beers. He h
anded one to me and then to Jake.

  “Thanks, Dad.” I smiled as I sat down at the table.

  “I saw you and Amelia down by the water,” he said.

  “She won’t go in. The shoreline is as far as she’ll go. She said doesn’t go in the water anymore and that’s how it’s going to stay.”

  My dad looked at me and sighed. “Well, I can understand that considering what happened to her but is it going to pose a problem when we go out on the boat this evening?”

  “I don’t know, Dad. I’ll have to ask her.”

  “I feel really bad for her,” Jake said as he set down his beer.

  “Me too, bro.”

  The women came outside, and Amelia sat down on my lap. She smiled as I kissed her cheek. I held my beer up to her lips and asked her if she wanted a sip. She nodded her head and I slightly tipped the bottle. She looked too damn sexy drinking beer from a bottle. I was nervous to ask her about going on the boat. If she wouldn’t go in the water, I was certain that she wouldn’t go on a boat.

  Julia, Jake, my mom, and dad all went into town to do some shopping. They asked us to come along, but I just wanted to stay back and relax with Amelia. Plus it gave me the chance to talk to her about going on the boat. We walked hand in hand down to the beach and sat in the sand.

  “My family is going out on the boat tonight.”

  “Oh,” she said as she looked down.

  “You don’t want to go?” I asked.

  “No. I can’t get on another boat.”

  I noticed she started to shake. “Amelia, relax. You don’t have to go.”

  “I’ll just stay back at the house and wait for you.”

  “I’m not going if you don’t.”

  “This is your family. You have to.”

  “They’ll understand,” I said.

  She stood up and started to walk away. “Where are you going? Come back here.”

  “Maybe this was a mistake coming here this weekend.”

  I quickly got up and walked over to her. “Why would you say that?”

  “Because you and your family like to do the things I can’t and it’s not fair to you.”

  “You mean the things you won’t, not can’t.”

  She turned away from me and didn’t say a word.

  “Amelia, look at me.”

  “It’s not up for discussion anymore, Collin. This is who I am, and no one, especially you, is going to change that. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to lay down for a little bit.”

  She walked back to the house and left me on standing on the beach. She was upset and I could see the terror in her eyes when I mentioned the boat. I put my hands in my pocket and walked back to the house. I grabbed a beer from the fridge and sat outside. I wanted to go comfort her, but I could tell she wanted to be alone and I was going to respect that. Her fears were understandable, but she couldn’t stop living life because of the accident and I needed to make her see that. Maybe I was crossing the line, but I cared about her more than I ever cared about anyone in my life and I wasn’t about to sit back and watch her stop living life.

  A while later, as I was sitting outside, Julia came and sat down next to me. “Where’s Amelia?” she asked.

  “She’s laying down.”

  “Are you okay? Did something happen between the two of you?”

  I sighed and looked down at my beer bottle. “She’s too afraid to go in the water and she won’t go on the boat. I don’t know what to do about it.”

  Julia placed her hand on mine. “You’re going to support her decisions. She’s obviously traumatized by what happened and she should be. I know I would be after experiencing something like that. You haven’t walked in her shoes, little brother, so it’s hard to understand.”

  “You’re wrong, Julia. I do understand. I want to help her.”

  “You understand as an outsider. You weren’t there. You didn’t see what she did, and you certainly didn’t go through what she did. I get that you want to help her but pushing her to do something she’s not ready for is only going to push her away from you.”

  I couldn’t say anything. I got up from my chair and kissed Julia on the cheek. “Thanks for the talk. I’m going to go check on her.”

  I quietly opened the door and poked my head in. She turned around and looked at me. I walked in the room and climbed in next to her, wrapping my arms around her and pulling her into me.

  “I’m sorry, Amelia,” I said as I kissed her head.

  “Don’t be. I’m the one with the issues.”

  “We all have issues, baby. Some more than others, but in the end, everyone has issues. But issues can be worked on.”

  “Can we please not talk about this now?” she asked.

  My phone started buzzing. When I reached in my pocket and pulled it out, I noticed a text message from Aiden.

  “Bro, I’m in the Hamptons. You here?”

  “Yeah. I’m at the beach house with Amelia and my family.”

  “Awesome. Let’s hit the club tonight.”

  Maybe that wasn’t such a bad idea since Amelia wouldn’t go on the boat. I asked her if she wanted to go and she said yes.

  “We’ll meet you there around eight.”

  “Cool. I’m bringing Sonya. I can’t wait for you to meet her.”

  Chapter 22

  Amelia and I walked out from our rooms at the same time. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw her. She looked so sexy, I had to put my hand in my pocket.

  “Wow, you look amazing.” I smiled as I looked her up and down.

  Her short black skirt complimented her long legs and her silvery spaghetti strap top clung to her hourglass shape. She wore the sides of her hair pinned up with curls cascading down her shoulders.

  “Thanks,” she said as she walked to me and ran her hand down my silk shirt. “So do you.”

  I smiled as I kissed her, and we headed downstairs. My family had already taken the boat out, so I grabbed my keys, locked up and then we drove to the club.

  “Dude!” Aiden smiled as he walked to us right outside the club.

  “Hey, bro,” I said as we high-fived. “This is Amelia. Amelia, this is my best friend, Aiden.”

  He took her hand and lightly kissed it. “It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance.”

  “Thank you. It’s nice to meet you,” she replied.

  “Where’s Sonya?” I asked.

  “We got into an argument and she left. No big deal. There’s plenty of ass in there to look at.”

  I shot him a look. “Aiden, not in front of my girl.”

  Amelia laughed and told me it was okay. She hooked her arm in mine and Aiden’s and we walked in the club. Aiden turned and mouthed to me, “OH..MY..GOD..YOU..LUCKY..DOG.”

  We grabbed a table in the corner and Aiden went to the bar and got us a few drinks. He set down Amelia’s glass of wine and handed me my scotch.

  “Dude, remember the last time we were here with that pizza delivery girl and you got her off and then she said she was a virgin and not ready for sex? That was classic!” He laughed.

  I closed my eyes at the ideocracy of my so-called friend. Amelia looked at me and raised her eyebrow.

  “That was the night I met you.” I smiled as I took her hand and kissed it.

  “Sorry, Amelia. My bad,” Aiden said.

  He always had a habit of saying the wrong things at the wrong time. Now I was embarrassed, and I could tell Amelia was less than pleased. A waitress came over to our table and asked if we needed anything. Amelia held up her glass of wine and ordered another. I ordered another scotch and dumbass ordered us two rounds of lemon shots. After we downed them. I looked at Amelia.

  “Would you like to dance?” I smiled as I held out my hand.

  She smiled, put her hand in mine, and we went to the dance floor. She downed her glass of wine pretty fast after the shots and I could tell she was feeling it. She was all over the dance floor. I grasped her hips with my hands and brought her close to me. She began moving
her body up and down mine, causing some excitement. I took in a deep breath as I bit my bottom lip to distract me from my hard on. She turned to me and wrapped her arms around my neck.

  “I think you may have had a little too much to drink.” I smiled as I kissed her forehead.

  “Not nearly enough as far as I’m concerned. Come on, let’s go do some more shots!” she exclaimed.

  We went back to the table and Aiden was talking to some chick. She was a redhead, which was totally not his type and she was hanging all over him.

  “Bro and Amelia, I would like you to meet, Amberlyn. Amberlyn, this is my best bud, Collin and his girl, Amelia.”

  We said hi and Amelia turned to Aiden. “More shots?” she asked.

  “Hell yeah, little lady!” he yelled as the two of them high-fived.

  “You two go ahead. I’m not having any. I have to drive back to the beach house.”

  “Collin, seriously? You never let that stop you before.”

  I kicked Aiden under the table. “I said not for me.”

  Aiden held his hand up and signaled for the waitress to bring the shots over. I ordered a bottle of beer and sat and watched the three of them get wasted.

  * * *

  “Come on. Let’s get you into bed,” I said as I picked Amelia up from the passenger’s seat.

  She wrapped her arms around me and looked at me with a smile. “You are so fucking hot. I can imagine how hot you are in bed.”

  “Thank you. Let’s not talk about this now. You need to sleep this off.”

  Her lips smashed into mine as I was carrying her up the stairs and she started laughing.

  “Shh, everyone is sleeping.”

  When I sat her on the bed, she grabbed hold of my shirt, fell back and pulled me on top of her.

  “I need you to fuck me right now,” she said as she kissed me.

  “Amelia, stop.”

  “No, I mean it. I want you. I need to feel you inside me.”

  “You’re drunk and I won’t sleep with you while you’re drunk. Not our first time anyway.”

  I climbed off her and pulled back the sheets. As I took off her shoes, she told me that she was going to be sick. I helped her up and into the bathroom. She leaned over the toilet and started vomiting. I kneeled down next to her and softly rubbed her back. Once she was finished, she leaned up against the wall while I wet a washcloth. I lifted her chin with my finger and wiped the mascara stains around her eyes and the wiped her mouth. I smiled as I kissed the tip of her nose before helping her up.