“It’s back in Louisiana.”
“It is? How’d you get here?”
“Plane. After being on my own for so long, I wanted to ride with you, so I could feel you up.”
Laughing, I kiss her. “You can feel me up all day and all night, for as long as you want, baby.”
“For how long?” she asks, parroting me from earlier. I guess she needs me to say it. I can understand that, knowing her.
Gently grabbing a fistful of her hair, I lift my own head off the ground and come real close to her beautiful face. “You and me are forever, Sunshine. That’s how long.”
Feeling my cock twitch back to life against her thigh, she smiles. “Show me.”
No fuckin’ problem there.
Luna
The fog over the farm in the morning light adds to the peace I’m feeling today. Jaxson and Jett are cooking up bacon and eggs for us while I sit on a stool, watching them, the view beautiful through the window behind them. Jett’s got no shirt on, so of course I’m staring at his back. Jaxson has a Henley shirt on. They’re both in jeans, Jett’s darker than his brother’s. Their family comes well made.
No one’s speaking, and it’s a comfortable silence. The two of them easily move around each other like only people raised together can, I guess. It’s kind of like a dance, no one bumping into the other as they pull out plates, pour glasses of orange juice, butter toast, and grab silverware.
It’s a different energy than at the plantation where the people are rowdy and children run free.
I wonder if Jaxson gets lonely.
He’s out here all by himself.
Maybe he doesn’t know it, even if he is.
I never knew I was. Not until I met Jett.
I thought I was fine.
I wasn’t.
It hasn’t sunk in that I have a partner on this ride now. But I’m willing to sit and wait for it to. I’m scared. But I want this.
“Let me bring those over,” I say, walking over for the juice glasses.
“Jax, you got the—”
“—Yep,” he answers before the question is finished, and reaches for salt and pepper.
Jett winks at me. “Sunshine likes her salt.”
I can’t help but grin. “Ah, he knows me.”
“Gettin’ there.”
As we walk over to the grey and brown wood dining table– I think to myself, ever since I met you you’ve known me, even better than I do.
“Luna, how was it shopping with our Mom?” Jaxson asks before he digs in.
Thinking of the few hours she and I spent in Lenox mall, I answer, “Strange, but nice. She’s a good person.” Both brothers make grunts of agreement, both equally focused on food. I’m not sure if I should tell them this, but I try it anyway. “Your dad was good, too.”
Two pairs of eyes shoot up to lock on me.
Picking up the saltshaker, I carefully explain, “He knew I was here for you, Jett. He asked about you.”
“He did?” Jett drops his fork.
“It wasn’t a lot of words or anything. When he got home last night from work, she introduced me and explained that you and I had a fight, but that you loved me.”
Jaxson sips his coffee, side-eyeballing his brother.
Jett just inhales really deeply, waiting for more.
“They talked about his day while your mother made dinner. I just stood by with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc, which I’d never had before.”
“Mom loved Sauvignon Blanc,” Jett mumbles, still waiting for details about his dad.
She does. She had several.
But I leave that part out.
I might have made her nervous. I do that.
“Then when we sat down to eat, he just kinda casually threw it out there: How is Jerald?”
“Fuckin’ hate that name.”
“It was our grandfather’s,” Jaxson explains to me. “But it never fit Jett.”
“No,” I agree. “When he asked, I could tell it was hard for him to, and harder for him not to, if that makes sense.”
“Yeah,” Jett mutters. “What’d you tell him?”
“I said that you’re really happy with your life. That you’re helping people.”
“What’d he say to that?”
Glancing to my plate, I confess, “He rolled his eyes.”
“Dick!”
“But I think it’s more important that he asked.”
We eat in silence for a while and I devour my food in no time, looking up to find both brothers watching me with amusement. “See what I told you?” Jett asks. “She eats like a man. Fuckin’ love you, Sunshine.”
Grinning with my mouth full, I proudly tell him, “I love you, too.”
Jett whoops really loudly, which makes Jaxson start laughing. An alarm goes off on his phone. He lifts it up and says, “Time to get ready.”