“Calli, I dare you to sleep in Alex’s bed tonight.”
“Oh hell yes, baby C.”
“What the fuck? No. That’s not happening,” Nico argues.
“So I get to sit here and watch you suck Bri’s tits, but I can’t even share a bed with someone? Get fucked, Nico,” Calli slurs, turning her attention on Alex and smiling at him in a way that’s sure to make Nico’s blood boil. “Just so you know, I prefer to sleep naked.”
“Jesus fucking Christ,” Nico barks, pushing from his seat and storming off.
“Bro, I thought you wanted to play.”
“Fuck you,” he shouts back before slipping into the house.
Toby’s chest rumbles with laughter as Alex continues to stare down at Calli as if all his dreams have just come true.
“That was a joke,” she states. “I never sleep naked, and I have zero intention of doing so with you.”
Alex reaches out and tucks a lock of hair behind her ear.
“We’ll see.”
Toby chooses that moment to bring me back to the edge once more, and I can’t stop a moan ripping past my lips.
All eyes turn my way, including those who were previously distracted, and my cheeks burn.
“Ah, it seems like Jodie is feeling left out. Baby C, you wanna spin and get your own back?”
She shoves Alex’s legs from her lap and reaches for the bottle as I fight to keep my eyes open.
Everyone knows what’s going on now, so I guess I should just embrace it.
As if she’d planned it, the bottle stops on the two of us.
“Toby,” Alex states with a naughty glint in his eye. “Finish what you’ve started.”
Not missing a beat, Toby flips us, forcing me to lay back on the cushions before crowding me with his wide frame.
“I guess I’ve got little choice but to make good on that promise.”
His fingers find that magic place inside me as his lips claim mine. I have no choice but to fall headfirst into everything he can offer me. I forget about our audience and where we are and just drown in him.
In only seconds, he’s got me right back on the edge once more, but this time, he doesn’t stop, and he finally lets me fall into a blissful release. I scream out his name, but he catches each syllable, swallowing down my cries as he lets me ride out every last second of it.
He pulls his fingers free of my body and lifts up from my lips. All I see when I open my eyes is his happiness staring back down at me.
“I love you, Jodie,” he whispers, my heart tumbling at the sincerity in each word.
“I love you too,” I finally say. It might not be the perfect time, or even the most appropriate considering our current situation, but fuck it.
Our world is messy, dirty, and full of unknowns. And after everything we’ve been through, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
A door slams somewhere in the distance before Nico booms, “Last one in the lake naked is a fucking pussy.”
I look up just in time to see his bare arse running toward the end of the garden.
Laughter and movement erupt around me, and Toby’s warmth quickly disappears as he jumps at the challenge. I discover that the boys’ competitive streaks are also strong enough that they follow suit.
“Surely you’re not all going to—” When Stella and Emmie start joining in, stripping off their clothes, I realise that they are all serious.
“Come on, Demon. I thought you were up for the wild night ahead.” Toby pulls me from the sofa and drags my shirt over my head.
The cool night air rushes over my bare body, but it’s soon forgotten as he throws me over his shoulder and runs toward the lake.
Cries of excitement and laughter follow before everything is cut off as Toby dives into the ice-cold water as if he has no cares in the world.
It’s fucking everything.