Waiting for Willa (Big Sky, #3)(19)

Just like that first date.

“Coming right up.” I toss her the Duds, put in some fresh popcorn to pop, and cue the Blu-ray disk.

“What are we watching?” she asks.

“You don’t remember what we saw on our first date?”

She frowns. “It’s been about fifteen years, Max. I don’t remember.”

“Pirates of the Caribbean,” I reply as I pass her some popcorn and a soda. I hit play on the remote, and the lights go down, the curtain goes up, and the screen comes to life.

“Leave it to you to have a real movie theater in your house,” she says playfully.

“It’s handy,” I say. “Besides, we could have watched this in my car on my iPad. We went to the drive-in on that first date.”

“It’s a bit cold for that,” she concedes and snuggles up against me on the soft red loveseat in the middle of the room. “And this way, we can snuggle.”

Or, I could lay her back, strip her bare, and fuck her right here in my theater.

Instead, I shove some popcorn into my mouth and watch as Captain Jack Sparrow slurs his way through the movie.

After Willa sets her empty popcorn bucket aside, I yawn, stretch my arm high over my head, then drop it over her shoulders.

She gives me the side-eye, but her lips are tipped up in a grin.

My fingers play against the soft skin of her bare shoulder before moving up into her silky hair. Her chest rises and falls in a deep sigh, and I know she’s as turned on as I am.

Using my moves from back in the day, I lean in and press a kiss to her earlobe. The next thing I know, she’s turned, plunged her hand in my hair, and my lips are on hers, hard and sure, drinking her in like I’ve been lost in the desert for a month.

She’s sweet, giving, and so damn good. She hasn’t changed at all.

I need her. All of her.

When we come up for air, her forehead is pressed to mine, and we’re both breathing hard.

“God, I’ve missed you,” I whisper.

“Me, too,” she whispers back.





Chapter Six


Willa


“TELL ME EVERYTHING,” Jenna hisses next to me. We’re at yoga the morning after my date with her brother, in the back where we always are during class.

“Take a deep breath, everyone,” Fallon McCarthy, our yoga instructor, says from the front of the classroom. There are maybe ten of us here today, including Brooke and Maisey Henderson, Jillian King, and Lauren Sullivan. “And exhale. Beautiful. Reach way up…”

“It was a first date,” I whisper loudly. “Literally. He recreated our first date from back in the day.”

“Oh my God, that’s sweet,” Brooke says. “Sorry. I’m totally eavesdropping.”

“We all are,” Jillian replies with a laugh. “Max and I have been friends for years.”

Fallon glances back at us, but just when I think she’s going to yell at us for chatting during class, she just smiles.

“I don’t care if we chat about Willa’s love life, as long as we do it while we yoga,” she says, making us laugh. “Let’s do some cat and cow poses, ladies. Let’s strengthen those cores and backs.”

“So, tell us about the first date,” Lauren says.

“We had dinner at Ed’s. We shared a chocolate shake and each ordered burgers and fries. Just like before.”

“Damn, I’m trying to shed some of this baby weight, and she’s talking about burgers and fries from Ed’s,” Lauren mumbles.

“And then we went to his house to watch Pirates of the Caribbean. We watched it at the drive-in back then, but it’s a bit cold for that now.”

“Does he really have his own movie theater?” Maisey asks.

“Yeah. It’s gorgeous,” Jenna replies. “We’ll have a girls’ night over there sometime and watch a bunch of chick flicks.”

“I’m in,” Maisey says with a smile.

“Downward dog,” Fallon instructs us.

“I bet Max knows all about downward dog,” Brooke says, making me choke on my own spit. I fall to my knees and cough, trying to catch my breath.

“That’s disgusting,” Jenna says. “He’s my brother, Brooke.”

“He’s not our brother,” Jillian says with a laugh. “And Willa would know all about his downward dog abilities.”

“Can’t breathe,” I stutter, laughing and coughing at the same time.

“Gross. Ew. Tell them you’ve never seen my brother naked,” Jenna demands, but all I can do is shake my head as I take a deep breath.

“It’s been a long time, but yes, I’ve seen him naked.”

“Just think about how much better it’ll be now,” Lauren says thoughtfully.

Oh, trust me, I have.

His body is so different. He grew a couple of additional inches after he graduated from high school, and man, has he filled out! The muscles are ridiculous. I couldn’t help but try to touch him everywhere last night when he was kissing the life out of me.

And that groping was over the clothes. I can’t even imagine how good he’ll look and feel naked.

“Oh, no, she’s thinking about it.” Jenna snaps her fingers in front of my face. “Earth to Willa. Wake up.”