“How was that?”
“That was fucking awesome,” I swore, still laughing.
“Baby Girl,” Jake called, and I high-fived Jake the Elder and his son for real, before I staggered over to meet Jake. He let out a whoop and picked me up into a twirling hug. I laughed as I held onto him.
When he paused, we turned to watch Archie land. He did not land on his ass at all; he actually made the glide-in landing look easy and jogged to a stop.
I threw my arms up and let out a girly scream for him as I cheered.
His grin was as wide as mine felt. With swift movements, he unlocked himself and then he was striding toward us. I gave Jake a swift kiss before he set me down, and I stumbled right into Archie’s arms for a fierce hug and kiss.
“You were fucking awesome,” he declared. He high-fived Jake and then we turned to watch Ian, followed by Coop. Ian landed damn near as gracefully as Archie had. He added a slide in at the end, more like he was stealing a base or something.
Coop didn’t even try, he just lifted his legs and slid across the grass like he meant to do it. The rubbery muscles in my legs began to cooperate and I was skipping toward them. Well, not really, more like a halting run, but Archie and Jake were with me.
Giddy. I was giddy like I was still falling, and Ian caught me up in a kiss that threatened to send me flying all over again. He lifted his head and gave me a searching look. “You’re shaking.”
“Adrenaline rush,” I promised him, then nuzzled another kiss to his jaw before Coop got there.
“Gimme,” he demanded. “I risked my life and need a kiss like the action hero I am.”
The guys half-snorted and half-laughed as I wrapped my arms around Coop’s neck. “You’re always my hero,” I whispered and his grin gave me real wings. From fierce to heated to protective to playful, they were my everything. I cupped Coop’s nape as he teased my lips apart with a kiss that was a lot slower and a lot more demanding than the others.
But I wasn’t the only one shaking, so I wrapped him up tighter. Nothing said thrilling like willingly jumping out of a plane for the guys you loved or them doing it to be there for my first jump.
“Ah,” I sighed as I leaned back and Archie eyed me.
“That sounded pretty lusty and profound.”
I grinned as Coop finally put me back on my feet. I still had something of a drunken stagger, though I loved it. “It was—it is.”
Honestly, I wanted to rub my thighs together and drag one or all of them off somewhere to get naked and get them to fuck me sideways. All of them together, one at a time, or all of the above. I was not picky at the moment.
As it was, my nipples tightened as I clenched my inner muscles to try and suppress the reaction or some of it, at least while we had an audience. Light flared in Jake’s eyes and I caught Ian’s speculative look.
Yeah, I was not covering my responses well at all.
“Gonna share?” Archie asked, glancing toward our cameraman and making a cutting motion with his hand. “Thanks! Go ahead and send the whole thing over and the invoice, yeah?”
“You got it, Mr. Standish.”
Mr. Standish. It really suited him when he got that in-charge look.
“You guys did good,” Jake the Elder said as he clapped me on the shoulder. “Your girl did great. Come on up to the road when you’re ready and we’ll drive back.”
“Thanks,” Jake said to him, shaking his hand. All the guys did. They shook all of their hands, but I could feel their attention and how tightly it focused on me.
Soon as they had all moved ahead and were out of earshot, Ian gave me a look. “Angel?”
“I'm just—thrilled, honestly. I mean, that was a hell of a turn-on, and yes, I’m very fucking horny right now, so the sooner we find some privacy, the better—but…” I paused cause Archie’s jaw fell open briefly before a wicked grin spread across his lips, and Coop threw his head back and laughed.
“But?” Jake prompted, giving Coop a shove.
“But—I love that we popped our cherries on this together.” Because we had. We’d done the jump classes together and the guys could have done their first jumps earlier, especially Jake, because I’d been in Paris for a week getting Rachel moved in—but they waited for me.
“Hell yes, we waited,” Archie muttered. “You are always worth waiting for.”
Ian was closer, and he cupped my chin, tilting my head back as he chuckled. “He’s right, Angel—and you need your rings back on.” Then he opened his palm. The four rings that interlocked were waiting for me. I’d worried about losing them mid-jump, so I’d tucked them into his pocket.
I held out my hand and he slid them on in the correct order while the guys watched.
“Better,” Jake said.
“Agreed,” Coop sighed.
I lifted my hand to look at them. They were right. The lack of them had left my finger naked.
“You sure we can’t elope?” Archie asked abruptly, and we all looked at him. “I mean, I get waiting until next summer. We want graduation done and Jake’s parents are getting married at Christmas—but who says we can’t just elope and not tell anyone else. Then they can all come to that wedding and we get to have our own.”
Fuck. That was tempting.
“My mother will kill me,” Ian said. “So will Jake’s and Coop’s.”
True. I reached over to link my fingers with Archie’s. Hank and Eddie would roll with it… “The Dad Bros wouldn’t be thrilled either, and Chloe might cry.”
The last was a secret weapon. Archie growled, tugging me to him. “Fine, we can’t make her cry. But June first, Miss Curtis, and you’re gonna be Mrs.—”
I put my fingers against his lips and he made a face. “We haven’t decided on that yet,” I reminded him. “But we will. We’ll decide on everything. I promise.” Moving my fingers, I kissed him lightly. “I said ‘yes,’ remember?”
His whole expression softened and he nipped my lower lip. “Yes, you did.”
“Right. She absolutely did. Now, hand her over,” Jake said, stretching out a hand. “She said something about being horny, and we need to get on that right now.”
“On that?” I challenged and Jake grinned.
“Baby Girl, don’t even pretend you can’t wait for every single one of us to get on that meaning you. Sooner, rather than later, yeah?”
I mean—he had a point.
“Thank you,” he said when I didn’t argue and then scooped me up. “Last one to the car has to wait for three orgasms,” he said and then bolted. I whooped as he took off running.
Archie raced past him, and to my shock—so did Coop. When Ian passed us, I gave Jake a look because he slowed from running to walking. “What did you…”
I wasn’t the only one suspicious because Archie fixed him with a look. “What was the small print?”
But Jake didn’t answer until we were tucked in the privacy of the limo Archie had waiting for us. “I said; the last one to the car had to wait for three orgasms to share her. I didn’t say whose orgasms.”
Smug.
So smug.
But I collapsed into him laughing as Archie pursed his lips and Coop cracked up. Ian just shook his head.