Chapter 9

CHAPTER NINE

JACOB

S now fell outside in a never ending blanket covering the earth, and I spent the rest of the night learning every fucking inch of Sloan’s body. What made her blush, what made her wet, and how many different ways I could make her orgasm.

We made it to the bed just before dawn.

The next morning, I took full advantage of the oversized shower and washed her body, then dried her with the fluffy towels before feeding her breakfast. Around nine, Ethan came knocking on the cabin’s door.

“You’d better be clothed. I may kinda like Jacob even if he’s with the Revenge, but I don’t want to see his naked ass.”

I called Josie, who was very concerned that I not drive until it was safe, and talked to Mary before kissing Sloan under another bough of mistletoe as Ethan groaned.

Carefully, the three of us climbed over the snow, until I made her jump on my back as we made our way to the house. Inside, I could smell cookies and coffee and something else that made my mouth water. Aside from Sloan, of course. I set her down inside the foyer and kissed her again under the same mistletoe from Thanksgiving.

“Show off,” Ethan muttered. “Now Annie’s going to want piggy-back rides.”

“Duh,” his wife said from the kitchen where she was pouring coffee into mugs. “And when I’m huge, you’ll have to carry me everywhere because I won’t be able to see my feet.”

“Stop looking at me like that,” she hissed as I snaked my arm around her waist and pulled her in for a kiss.

“Like what?”

“Like you want to eat me.”

“I do like how you taste, baby.”

Her cheeks did that thing again, and I groaned, because now that my dick knew how it felt to be inside her, it was all I could think about. “I should’ve known your real boyfriend was going to blow the fake boyfriend out of the water.”

“You haven’t seen anything yet,” I promised.

The rest of the day was spent opening gifts, eating and FaceTiming with Josie until it was time for me to go.

The way her eyes lit up when she opened the gingerbread cookies and jumped up to keep them out of Annie’s hands?

Fucking gorgeous . So worth not eating them and imagining I was tasting her after I picked them up and had to smell them the entire plane ride.

We sat side by side on the couch, and I had to restrain myself from seeping her onto my lap.

“I know you have to leave, but-”

“It’s a good thing you live close to Seattle.”

She beamed. “Twenty minutes. Definitely close enough to do…all sorts of things.”

“Like come to the family skate the day after tomorrow and officially meet Josie.”

Her brow wrinkled. “I’ve met Josie.” She pointed to Hannah. “Sister to her Godmother, her grandma is my grandma’s bestie.”

“As my girlfriend, Sloan.”

“Oh,” she breathed.

“And not my fake one either. Because I plan on having all kinds of real boyfriend time to make up for those weeks we missed out on when we were supposed to be dating.”

“Looks like my Christmas wish came true.”

“Oh yeah?”

She nodded. “A family holiday where I didn’t have to explain why I was single. Only this time, all it took was a little snow, and me falling for the lumbersnack. Who let me kiss him anytime I wanted.”