Saving You (Love Wanted In Texas Book 2)(36)

“Um …” I looked at them and felt my face flush. “It was beyond anything I could have imagined.

“Was he gentle?” Taylor asked.

I nodded my head. “Very.”

Grace looked at Alex as they exchanged a smile.

“Was it … better than … you know, Zach?” Lauren asked.

Smirking, I asked, “Zach who?”

We all laughed. Maegan leaned closer to me. “Okay I have to ask, Lib. Is he packing?”

“Oh Jesus H. Christ! You did not, Maegan Atwood!” Grace shouted.

I threw my head back and laughed. Grace turned and looked at me and pointed. “Don’t answer that.” Holding up my hands I shook my head. I looked at Maegan and winked as she giggled and Grace yelled. “I saw that, Libby!”

Alex raised her hand. “Me next!” She cleared her throat. “Was he romantic?”

“Yes. Very.”

“Oh God, I can’t wait,” Taylor said with a sigh. Maegan turned and looked at Taylor.

“Ah, the hell you can wait baby sister.” Turning back to me, Maegan wiggled her eyebrows up and down. “How many times?”

I bit my lip. “Including this morning?”

Grace moaned and dropped back on the bed. Maegan nodded her head. I barely got the words out of my mouth. “Four times, not including, other stuff we did during the night.”

“Kill. Me. Now. Please!” Grace whined.

“Holy hell,” Alex and Maegan said as Lauren and Taylor both looked at me with horrified looks.

“How are you walking?” Lauren asked.

I looked away and chuckled. Letting out a breath, I turned back to the girls. Grace was sitting up smiling like a fool. She acted like it bothered her, but I knew she was happy for Luke and me.

I shook my head and looked down before looking back up. “I came so close to giving up, but I honestly couldn’t imagine my life without Luke in it.” I swallowed hard as I looked down at my hands as I ringed them on my lap. “Even when we were best friends, I knew there was something more to our relationship. The way he would look at me used to make my stomach just flutter.”

Lauren’s smile faded some and I knew she was thinking about Colt. I was positive he made her feel the same way. She just wouldn’t admit it.

“Then yesterday on the beach, he looked at me again and this time I saw something different.”

Five voices all whispered, “What was it?”

Smiling, I looked at Grace. “Love. Pure love.” I let out a small chuckle. “Finally, his head wasn’t arguing with his heart.”

“Did he tell you he loved you?” Grace asked.

I nodded my head. “On the beach. He told me he’s always loved me and only me.”

Lauren let out a dramatic sigh. “How romantic.”

Maegan shook her head. “Four times. My God.”

My cheeks burned with embarrassment. “Does it always stay this magical, Alex?”

Alex’s eyes lit up. “Believe it or not, it keeps getting better. If you think his touch does crazy things to you now, just wait. The more you’re together and learn each other, the more beautiful it becomes.”

We all sat there for a few moments in silence before Grace jumped up and said, “Okay, well now I feel like I need to go for a run. I’m outta here y’all.”

Alex jumped up and followed Grace out of the room calling out, “What? You said we were going shopping!”

Maegan stood and walked over to me. She leaned down and kissed my forehead. “I’m so happy for you both, I hope you know that.”

I reached for her hand and nodded. “I do, Meg. I love you.”

She smiled weakly. “I love you too, Lib.” Turning, Maegan made her way out of the room. Taylor and Lauren both stood up and walked closer to me. They dropped to their knees and I knew the questions were fixin’ to come.

Lauren bit down on her lip and then asked, “Do you regret sleeping with Zach?”

I nodded my head. “Yes. I knew he wasn’t the one and I used him to try and push Luke from my heart. It doesn’t work like that and my mother even tried to warn me.”

Taylor reached for my hand. “I want so badly to find what you and Alex have.”

I placed my hand over her hand in mine. “Oh, Tay, it will happen, honey. Don’t rush it. Wait for that one guy who’s smile is going to light your whole body on fire.”

“How do you know? I mean, how do you know when it’s love?” Lauren asked.

I glanced back at Lauren. “I don’t know how to describe it. Love seems to take its own sweet time. It doesn’t take a straight path. It twists and turns, but somehow it finds its way to you. You have to learn to listen to your heart, but that’s harder to do than it sounds.”

“There were times when it seemed like you and Luke couldn’t stand each other. How do you go from that to—this?” Lauren asked.

“I don’t know, Lauren. Luke had made me so mad sometimes I wanted to spit in his face and kick him in the balls.” I smiled and shook my head. “But then he’d smile at me—or look at me as if I was his everything, even when he wasn’t trying to look at me like that he did. I guess that’s why I waited for so long.”

Taylor cleared her throat. “I’m going to be patient and wait for him. I’m going to wait for that smile that makes my knees weak and my stomach flutter with excitement.”