Lady Luck (Lucky You Book 2 1) (7 page)

    “Did you? How?” I’m speechless. I have no words. He must interpret my reaction and begins to explain.

    “I found it online I made a sweet deal with the owner of the rental company in exchange for business. He happened to have a name that was fitting.”

    “Thank you. Its a sweet gesture.” I’m blown away by how creative he got with the plans for our date and at the same time I’m beginning to think he is really trying to wow me.

“I’ve set us up on the lower deck for dinner and dancing on the upper deck.”

    “You’re really gonna dance with me under the moonlight?” I’m still stuck on the name of the ship we’re now aboard, and he’s still firing on all cylinders. How could I not fall for this guy?

“That is what I promised.”

“Other than my brother and Gramps I’ve never met a man of his word.”

“What about your cousin Ryan?”

    “He blows me off all the time. He can be really flaky. I’ve learned to not trust him until he proves me wrong.”

We each grab a glass of wine and make our plates from the buffet of food he brought.

“Why did you pick Italian?”

   
      
“I miss home. My mother is half Italian and would make the best meatballs and chicken parm.”

    “Why didn’t you move back when things went bad?”

    “You have a lot of questions. Well since we’re being honest I will share. I thought that going home would make me lose even more than I have. I decided when she left that I would make the most of this place, that and all my money went to funding the down payment. I also wanted to a fresh start, going home wouldn’t provide me with that.”

    “One more question. Why do you call me Lady Luck?”

    “I started calling you that because of what you said to me about tricks and luck and how you play the right way. I’m placing my luck with you. You may not know it but you’ve brought me more of everything in my life. Including luck. With you I feel like I’m the luckiest man on the face of the earth, just to walk and live in your presence.”

    “I've never been here before, in this very moment. I don’t know much about how
this works or how it’s supposed to work.”

   “I couldn’t tell you how thankful I am that you are innocent. You’re so pure and strong. I don’t want to steal away your essence, but I don’t want anyone else to either.”

    “You won’t corrupt me Jeremiah. I’ve already been through a tragic experiences, I know what it feels to lose a part of yourself that you’ll never get back.”

Standing up and holding out his hand he asks me.

    “Are you ready to dance lady?”

    I look up to meet his eyes, the ones who are highlighted by the sun setting light. And show a dark ring surrounding a light shade of amber; his normally dark hair has little streaks of red weaving through. His sexy panty-soaking smile makes me weak in the knees as I’m exiting my chair. I grab ahold of his hand and feel the warmth and electricity buzz through us. Oh shit! I’ve never felt that. Is it normal?

    “Did you feel that Jeremiah?”

    ‘Yeah. Its the universe telling us we belong together.”

    “Yeah I guess it is.” He leads me up the stairs, flanking me on either side as we climb the ladder.

    “You better not be looking up.” I’ve just realized
, I broke the first rule of wearing dresses or skirts without wearing boy shorts underneath, shit. He can most likely see all my girly bits and my ass too.

    “Oh I am, I love this angle.” Double shit.

    “I guess it was a bad day to wear a thong huh?” Deciding to make a joke out of things, as I would do if it were my brother or cousin instead of the guy I’m having serious thoughts and feelings for. Fuck.

    “No. I’d say you made the better choice. I’m really enjoying this view.” Well there’s always that, glad he’s getting enjoyment out of my embarrassment.

    “That’s all you’re going to get for now. The rest is a mystery.”  I’m more than curious to not just see what he looks like up close but also to feel him. And maybe tonight I’ll be brave enough to put to the moves on him and go as far as I’ve ever been with someone.

    “Oh I like mysteries. I can’t wait to see what awaits me underneath.” It looks like I won’t have any problems now, we both seem to want the same thing, to see and feel and taste each other fully, and not to be impeded by our clothing.

We step up to the landing and I see he has lights strung over head us. With Michel Buble playing softly in the background. He opens his arms to me, signaling for me to walk into them. As soon as were joined, he pulls me flush against him as we sway lightly side-to-side.

     “Addie, I could get lost in you. I could get lost in this moment.”

Jeremiah

I’ve mixed a few songs choices together tonight. I wanted to show her what I feel through all the music I’m playing for her. We started off light, with a slow hit, but I’m sure she’ll get a kick out the next song I have chosen for us. It’s Jet, “Are you gonna be my girl?” it may seem corny, but I figured she’d think its funny. I want to sing her the lyrics and ask her if she wants to be my girl. Only I won’t be joking with her this time.

At the end of the song, I ask her. “So Addie, are you going to be my girl?”

“Yes. I thought I already was.”

Several songs later, I’ve twitched over to a country hit I know she’ll recognize, I came across it in my search today and it just said it all for me. ”Over” by Blake Shelton. I even learned some of the lyrics just so that she hears me singing them directly to her. I was doing it earlier and didn’t even it know it, but I’ve suddenly realized I’ve begun to open up my heart to her. This song also proves to me that I need to move on. “I would dare to feed your dreams and starve your fears.” She pulls away from me when the song ends, to stare up at me as I’m done serenading her. I notice a few tears coasting down her cheek. It worries me, until I see that she’s happy. Her smile says it all, its warm and sweet and so lively.

“The next song is meant as a joke, unless at some point in the future that we get to that point, but anyway, it’s a popular song, I figured you might like, most girls do.”

“Now I’m intrigued which song you must be referring to. Will you be serenading me through this one too?”

I know the lyrics, however I don’t want her to get the wrong idea, yet, I’d love to have wild animal like, gorilla sex with her. I just don’t want to scare her away now.

“I’ll see what I can do, Lady.”

“Hmm. I love it when you call me that.”

“I know you do.”

“Thank you for tonight.”

“No thank you, it’s been incredibly magical and I hope it doesn’t end.”

CHAPTER 8

Jeremiah

She’s slowly become my best friend and having her so close to me it makes me feel complete. Her warmth and petite lil frame fits so well in my arms. Its makes me feel like my whole life has lead to this moment. This moment that I feel my world right into its place. Until this moment its been spun on its axis, sometimes rolling sometimes gradually rotating, But my life is finally found its stopping point. I’ve finally found the girl who matches me every step of the way. She may not remember but I was there when her world nearly fell apart. I was the one who rocked her to sleep the night the incident occurred. I was there to comfort her, and try my best to dry up her tears. I knew she was breaking, crumbling on the inside. I left to let her join the family. I knew it wasn’t my place after the doctor kept looking at me weird. It was time to go. I only hoped what little I did do, helped her in some way.

    “Jeremiah what are you contemplating? You’ve never been so quiet.”

    “Oh I’m just trying to capture this moment in my head. I don’t want to miss a second if this.’

    “I’m having a great time too. I never want this night to end.”

    “You know we can sleep here tonight.”

We would need to pull into the safety zone, I hope no one would bother us. And I could only imagine what she looks like under that red dress.

    “Really? You want to sleep with me after our first date.”

    “We wont have sex, but we could play bases.”

    “Huh?”

    “You ever heard of first, second or third base. In terms of sex.”

    “No. But I do love a good baseball game, especially if the Rangers are playing.”
Haha. I can’t help but laugh. She pulls away and meets my eyes.

    “I’m sorry. Like I said, I love that you aren’t experienced. It’s a breath of fresh air. And you’re really cute sometimes.”

    “Jere will you be patient with me? I’m not in a hurry to jump in bed, well I want to, but I’m not ready.” She steps back into my arms. Softly sighing near my ear. “I really like you Jeremiah. I want to be what ever you want, but I don’t know how.”

    “Oh Addie. You are what I want. I’m just not sure if I’m ready to put myself out there again. I want to trust you. My head says to hold you tight, but my heart is heeling and every moment I spend with you, I gain back the strength to keep enduring.”

    “What can I do? I don’t know what to do help you. Could we just lay down for a while.
”

    “Hmm.... I couldn’t imagine a better peace than the knowledge of having you wrapped around me.”

    “How did we get here? We started our date awkwardly holding hands and now it just feels so comfortable. How did we evolve so fast, are we moving too fast?”

    “My lady, my Addie, we are very comfortable together. You remember how I said the universe was telling us we belong together. Well its because its true. We both have reasons to hold back. I’m willing to give you time, to be patient with you, to try to trust that you wont break my heart. All I know at this point is that I wont let you walk away from me.”

     “I need you to give me time too. I’m not sure if I’ve told you, but I’ve never felt so alive in all my life. Jeremiah I’m willing to go as slow as you need to, I’m not sure what to expect, but I imagine a relationship takes a lot of work, we must build our friendship before we can learn to love.”

     I lead her around the dance floor, the music a mixture of country, rock and jazz.

After a few hours, we’re still wrapped up, holding each other, swaying to the beat of the music. She yawns and sighs into my neck, nudging her head against me. I feel a soft warm wetness trail around and she’s kissing me.

    “Hmm Jeremiah you smell and taste so good.”

    “I do?”

    “Hmm uh. What are you doing to me?’

    “I’m holding you close and dancing with you on the lake at moonlight.”

    “No I mean. I feel for you. I care about you. I don’t understand these feelings.”

    “I feel for you too. I want to see where this takes us. We just need some time to get to know each other. Build up trust and friendship. I’ll also need you around to help with the house, but then again you get to design it however you want. I’m just going to have to set some budget guidelines.”

    “No. I knew you would. Every project has a budget. You’re just lucky that I know how to shop on a dime. I bet I could furnish your entire house for less than 2500 dollars.”

    “3 bedrooms, living room dining and kitchen?”

    “Yes and Ill even have enough for the office and library.”

    “What library?”

    “The library reading nook above the master bedroom.”

    “Huh? Wait tell me after we lay down. I want to give you a tour.”

    “Lead away Jere bear.”

    “Jere bear?”

    “Yeah, you’re a big bad bear, with a soft side.”

    “Okay. Lady Luck, come on.”

I lead her down the corridor, showing her the various rooms and cabins. I finally have concluded the tour in the master suite. It’s at the very back; it over looks the lake and hillside. 

    “Oh my god its so beautiful.” It houses floor to ceiling windows, with the bed facing the view. “We may have to rent this again.” She says

    “I’d love to make love to you from this view.”

    “It would be pretty magical.” She says with a glimmer in her eyes.

    “We’ll get there. “ I promise.

“I cant wait.”

    “So what are we going to do tonight.
”

    “I just want to fall asleep with you in my arms.” She slips off her shoes and pulls the covers back, her lil dress rides up and I get another glance of her tan ass.

    “You better get in and cover yourself. I’m having a hard time controlling the urge to take you.”

    “You’re getting hard?”

    “Fuck! Are you kidding? I’ve been hard all night.”

    “Come here, underneath with me.” She gives me a shy look, patting the bed beside her.