Finding Peace (Finding Series Book 1) (39 page)

“Say something Blake. Don’t you like it?”

I believe that’s Kayla talking. I seriously think I’ve lost my ability to think and speak. I swallow hard.
Say something you idiot.

“I think he may have gone into shock.” Troy jokes.

“I… I… Are you trying to kill me?” Finally, I can speak.

Everyone laughs.

“Kayla you… Wow! I can’t take you out in that. I may have to kill someone if I do.”

Her smile lights up the room.

“So you like it?” She asks.

“Baby, I think my heart stopped for a few minutes. I love it. I love you in it. I just love you. I have to be the luckiest man on the planet.”

I finally take a step toward her. Even with her in heels we aren’t quite eye level. Leaning down, I gently place a kiss on her cheek, then I whisper in her ear. “You take my breath away. You look beyond sexy in this dress, baby. How do you expect me to keep my hands off of you?”

“You don’t look so bad yourself. And who said you have to keep your hands to yourself.”

“Don’t tease me girl.”

She giggles.

“I’d never tease you, baby.”

I growl a little at her, causing her to giggle some more. Pulling her closer to me, I run my hand up and down her bare back. The sensation is so unbelievable that I have to close my eyes. Chills run down my body and I feel Kayla shiver. Oh yes, she feels it too. I smile against her neck.

“Every girl at the prom is going to be jealous because they will be wishing you were their date tonight.”

Leaning back to take her beauty in again, “You’re right every girl will be jealous, but that’s because they will be wishing that they looked as beautiful as you do. Not to mention I’m probably going to have to fight with every guy there. Well, except for Asher.”

Looking over at Asher and Tessa. I smile.

“You look beautiful, Tessa.”

She rolls her eyes at me. “Nice try, Blake. I don’t think you were even aware that we were in the room, but thank you anyway.”

I shrug and feel a little bad. “Sorry.”

Again with the laughter. Apparently I’m the entertainment for the night.

Asher slaps me on the back.

“Don’t worry about it, man. I definitely don’t want you to look at my girl like that.” He says with a laugh.

I notice Tessa’s dress for the first time. She truly is beautiful. She’s wearing a royal blue short dress with crystals and silver accents and sky high silver heels. It suits her. Her dark short hair is curly and hanging loosely just above her shoulders. With Asher standing beside her they look like the perfect couple.

“Okay. Picture time.” Lisa announces.

Asher is now kissing Tessa’s neck and whispering something in her ear. I imagine it is something along the lines of what I was whispering to Kayla.

“Is that for me?” Kayla gestures to the corsage in my hand.

Shaking out of my daze I nod, saying “yes.”

I take it out of the plastic container and carefully slip the elastic band around Kayla’s wrist. The sight of her engagement ring on her hand makes my chest swell with pride. This amazingly sexy, sweet, wonderful girl is going to be my wife. Kayla gasps and my attention is immediately drawn to her face.

“What’s wrong?” I ask, panicked.

She is looking down at her corsage.

“Nothing. I love it! It’s perfect!” She looks up at me and touches the side of my face. “You amaze me, Blake McGinnis.”

“It’s perfect, just like you.” Leaning into her, I lightly place my lips against hers.

“Will someone please explain to me what’s up with the purple rose that doesn’t match?” Asher asks in frustration.

I look over at Asher and tilt my head and give him a smug smile. Simply saying I got it like that. Asher throws his hands up in the air.

I turn my attention back to my beautiful fianceé. Kayla and I just stare at each other. Lost in one anothers eyes. I can’t wait for the day that she becomes my wife. It's so close but yet still so far away. Kayla smiles at me as if she can read my mind. At this point she knows me so well she probably can.

I hear Tessa say. “I’ll explain it to you later, honey.”

Chapter 39

Kayla

After numerous pictures in the house, on the dock, and by the flowers in the garden we make our way toward the limo. Blake has to help me up the hill to the driveway. The ground is wet from recent rains and my heels keep sinking into the soft soil.

“I can always just pick you up and carry you.” Blake says with a devious grin.

“You would like that, wouldn’t you?”

“You know me well.” He says raising his eyebrows up and down.

“I believe I can make it. I wouldn’t want you to hurt yourself because that would force me to have to dance with someone else tonight.”

Blake pulls me to a stop, letting the others pass us. He puts a hand on either side of my face, gently holding me still and is looking deeply into my eyes as he says, “Let's get one thing straight, I could carry you up and down this hill all night and not get hurt. Even more importantly than that. You won’t be dancing with anyone but me. I don’t even want anyone else to see you in this dress, but it will be over my dead body before somone else dances with you or puts their hands on you tonight. Just so we’re clear.”

My heart is racing and my adrenaline is pumping. I love when he goes all caveman on me. For some reason, it completely turns me on.

“Just so we’re clear, huh?”

“Yup, just so we’re clear. If you will recall I’ve ran up this hill with you. Walking will not be a problem. So, should I show you that I can carry you with ease? ”

“No. Come on, caveman.”

I turn and start up the hill again. I’ve made it over half way when I hear Blake shout.

“Caveman? Really?”

I stop, turn around and face him. He’s just standing there staring at me with his hands on his hips. I give him my best mischievous grin and open the spilt in my dress, revealing my leg and exposing it all the way up to my hip. I can tell from here that his eyes are squinted and his chest is rising and falling faster than before. I raise my hand, bending my index finger making a come hither motion.

He begins to stalk toward me, smirking more the closer he gets. He is really going to be pissed in a second.

Reaching down slowly at first, then I quickly slip my shoes off, pull my dress up, turn and run as fast as I can. Laughing loudly as I hear him let out a string of curse words.

“What in the world? Look at your feet. Go use the water hose and clean that mud off. Silly girl. What were you thinking?” Lisa says shocked by my behavior.

I turn just in time to see Blake slowly walk around the edge of the house over to the limo and lean against it like he’s just as cool as can be. He puts his hand up to cover his mouth. He is doing his best to hide his laughter. He is enjoying Lisa scolding me for getting my feet all muddy after we spent hours getting ready.

“Hurry up, Kayla. Honestly, I can’t believe you just did that.” Tessa says.

I quickly wash my feet off and dry them on the towel that Lisa brought to me out of the house. She kisses me on the cheek.

“Please try and act like a lady the rest of the night.” She says with a wink.

“Yes, ma’am.”

I peek at Blake, but he has turned his back, I can see his shoulders moving, so I know he is laughing at me. I walk over to the limo and hit Blake on the back.

“Ouch!”

I roll my eyes at him. He bites his lip to keep from laughing out loud.

“After you beautiful lady.” Blake says, stretching his arm out to the open door of the limo. “By the way, you are in so much trouble for that little stunt. Not to mention the caveman comment.”

His eyes promise a punishment that I don’t think I will mind at all.

“I’m looking forward to it Mr. Sexy.”

He growls, causing me to giggle, as I slip past him and slide into the seat across from Tessa and Asher.

Once Blake is in the car, he pulls me close to him and kisses my ear and neck, which forces me to close my eyes as I feel the sensation run all the way down my body. Taking in a deep breath, I try to control the desire that is coursing through me.

“I told you not to tease me and that sweetheart was not nice at all.” He whispers into my ear so only I can hear him.

The sorry that I’m able to get out sounds breathy and almost like a plea for him to continue with the sweet torture. This is so not good. Really not good.

Blake leans back in the seat and I moan in protest, but then he starts to run his hand up and down my back and I’m lost again. The things that he can do to me with just a simple touch is mind blowing.

Thankfully, we pull up to the restaurant before things can get too carried away. Looking over to Tessa and Asher, I realize they too must have forgotten they weren’t in the limo alone.

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We finish our ridiculously overpriced dinner and upon leaving the restaurant, Blake says he is going to have to go to a drive thru because he is still hungry. We all laugh, but by the look on his face, I’m pretty sure he’s serious. The filet mignon we had really wasn’t that filling.

We drop Tessa and Asher off at the Coliseum, where the prom is being held then we give the limo driver directions to my dad’s house.

We do some heavy, making out but I stop things before we get too carried away. This is my second time in a limo with Blake and the thought of getting really carried away in one is appealing, but we have a deal and I will not be the one to cave.

Pulling out my compact mirror and lipstick from my purse, I try to make myself presentable again. Blake keeps distracting me by continuing to kiss my neck and shoulders. He is sending my body into overdrive and I know he knows exactly what he’s doing to me.

“It’s not fair.” He says confusing me.

Stopping what I’m doing I ask, “What’s not fair?”

“You put on the sexiest dress you can possibly find then expect me to stick to our deal. This is pure torture I tell you.”

“Umm. Just think how great our honeymoon week will be.” I say giving him a sweet smile

“Right now, all I can think about is how great tonight can be.” He closes his eyes and takes in a deep cleansing breath and lets it out. “I think I may explode before then. This is a lot of pent of sexual frustration we are talking about here.”

“I know. I’m sorry, baby. But no one ever said that doing the right thing would always be easy.”

“You should have worn a potato sack.”

I laugh. “A potato sack. Hmm, that probably would have been really short and you might have even been able to see through it in some ar…”

“Stop! For goodness sake. Just stop.”

“See baby, it doesn’t matter what I wear we would have had the same problem. Our sexual chemistry is insane.”

“Maybe you’re right, but this dress,” he says, running his hand up and down my exposed thigh. “Is coming with us on our honeymoon.”

“Baby, trust me, I’ve got something better than this dress for my husband on our wedding night.”

“God give me strength.”

“We have arrived Mr. McGinnis.” The driver informs us.

“Okay. You ready to meet my dad?”

“Talk about a mood killer. Let's do it!”

I look at him funny.

“I mean, let's go meet your dad. That must have been my subconscious talking.” He winks at me and kisses me lightly on the lips.

“You are so bad, Mr. McGinnis.”

“You like my bad boy side.”

“No. I love your bad boy side and your sweet side and your caveman side, and your southern gentleman side. Wow, I think I might be the luckiest girl alive, I have four men rolled into one.”

He laughs. “That makes me sound like I have a multiple personality disorder. I’m not sure that’s a good thing.”

He’s showing me his dimples and I can’t resist leaning toward him and kissing each one.

“Oh. Trust me in your case, it’s a very good thing.”

He smiles again and gives me a wink, then opens the door, gets out turns and reaches his hand out to help me out of the car. Oh, how I love my southern gentleman.

“Thank you kind sir.”

“My pleasure, ma’am.”

I’m immediately reminded of our first dinner together at the steak house Blake took Tessa and me to.

Nick comes outside onto the porch as we approach. I called the other day and told them we would be stopping by tonight.

“Wow, Kayla you look amazing.” He says, walking up to me and giving me a hug. “It’s good to see you.” He looks over at Blake and I can tell he is sizing him up. “Hi, I’m Nick. Kayla’s brother.”

“Nick, this is Blake, my fiancé.”

“Nice to meet you. You’ve been the topic of conversation around here.” Nick says, reaching his hand out to Blake.