“And what way is that?” she found herself asking as her head fell back, giving him more room as he kissed his way back down her neck.
“Pick a date,” he said as he rubbed his hand harder between her legs.
“Tomorrow,” Melanie said, licking her lips only to find herself turned around in his arms so that she was facing the mirror.
“That’s not going to work for me, sweetheart,” Aidan said, running his hands over her stomach as he pressed a kiss against the side of her neck.
“That’s your only option,” Melanie said because she refused to back down.
She didn’t care if this “curse” was real or not. She wasn’t about to take any chances, not when it came to Aidan. She loved him and she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. She didn’t care about anything else.
“What did your sister say to you?” Aidan asked as he ran his hands up her stomach so that he was cupping her breasts in his hands.
“Oh, you really thought that I would let her screw with my head? That’s so sad,” Melanie said with a pitying sigh and a sad shake of her head that ended with a moan when he gently squeezed her breasts. Caitlyn had crossed the line with her one last time, leaving her with no other choice but to do the one thing that she’d never allowed herself to do before.
She told on her.
Oh, had she tattletaled her ass off today.
She’d told her parents everything. It was something that she’d never done before because she knew that it was always better to handle Caitlyn on her own since her parents would just ground her sister, giving her a chance to make everyone’s life miserable. No, when it came to Caitlyn, Melanie either took care of her sister on her own, or she simply ignored her. Over the past couple of years, she’d ignored her sister…
Until now.
Now, Caitlyn had finally pushed her too far. So, Melanie did what any self-respecting woman her age would do, she told her parents all those things that Caitlyn didn’t want them to know and quite a few things that her sister probably thought she’d forgotten about.
“Then what are we doing here?” he asked, using his hold on her to pull her back against him.
“Because I want you,” Melanie said, unable to help but moan as he gave her breasts another squeeze before he slid one hand back down her stomach.
“You already have me,” Aidan promised her as he worked her pants open so that he could slide his hand inside her panties.
“Then it shouldn’t matter when we get married,” she said, struggling not to moan when she felt his hand slide between her legs.
“It matters.”
Chapter 42
“Open the goddamn door, Melanie!” Aidan bit out as he glared at the locked bathroom door.
“Are you going to marry me tomorrow?” came the reply after a brief pause.
“No,” he bit out, because they were doing this the right way no matter what the stubborn pain in the ass that had somehow managed to take him by surprise and locked him out of the bathroom, said.
“Then I’m afraid that I can’t do that,” Melanie said right around the time that he heard the shower turn on.
After one last glare at the locked bathroom door, Aidan checked on Cody to make sure that he was asleep before he pulled his shirt off and tossed it aside as he dropped down on the bed so that he could glare at the ceiling. He didn’t fucking care. They were getting married in a church whether she wanted to or not, and she would not ruin his fucking special day!
Now that he thought about it, this was perfect. More than perfect, because he could still make this work. Tomorrow, they’d have breakfast in bed, enjoy a long shower, take Cody out for the day, and then, he’d bring her back here for a romantic dinner, a bubble bath, and then he’d ask her to marry him, set a date, and try to figure out how he was going to pay for this fucking dream wedding without going broke.
It was going to be perfect.
Absolutely fucking perfect, Aidan decided only to curse as he reached over and grabbed the phone before it had a chance to ring again and wake up Cody.
“Hello?” Aidan said, answering the phone as he glanced at the playpen and sighed when he saw Cody watching him.
“I’m sorry to bother you, but we have a gentleman down here asking to see Miss Robinson,” the front desk clerk said, making Aidan wonder which one of his asshole relatives was here to help Melanie.
Probably his father, Aidan thought as he glanced at the bathroom door before his attention shifted to his son and-
“Tell him that I’ll be down in a few minutes,” he said, already reaching for the diaper bag.
“I will. Thank you,” the front desk clerk said before Aidan hung up so that he could make a bottle for his son, who was watching his every move.
Definitely a Bradford, Aidan thought, chuckling as he finished making a large bottle before scooping Cody up in his arms. He decided that it would probably be better if he handled his father now before the bastard drugged his food again and he fucking knew that his father was the one who’d drugged Melanie’s cup. Sneaky bastard, Aidan thought as he headed downstairs, contemplating tossing one of Cody’s dirty diapers in the back of his father’s car.
It would serve the traitorous bastard right, Aidan thought as the elevator doors opened and-
“Where’s Melanie?” the last person that he’d expected to see, demanded before Aidan had a chance to step off the elevator.
“What are you doing here, Adam?” Aidan asked as he stepped off the elevator, noting the other man’s messy hair, the panicked expression on his face, and the small black box in his hand.
“I need to talk to Melanie,” Adam said, glancing past Aidan, looking hopeful only to curse when he didn’t see Melanie.
“No, you need to talk to me and tell me why you’re here,” Aidan said, stepping in front of Adam when he moved to step on the elevator.
“I messed up,” Adam said, stepping away as he raked his fingers through his hair. “I never should have left her.”
“That doesn’t explain what you’re doing here,” Aidan said, hoping for the other man’s sake that he was talking about Caitlyn.
“Caitlyn’s parents showed up and tore into her, told her that if she wanted to marry me that she was on her own because they weren’t going to give her a dime after everything she’d put Melanie through only I didn’t know what she was doing. I had no fucking clue,” Adam said, shaking his head as he paced back and forth in front of the elevator even as he continued to send anxious glances towards the closed elevator doors.
“What does that have to do with us?” Aidan asked as he shifted Cody in his arms when his son began fidgeting.
“I’m in love with Melanie,” Adam said, gesturing helplessly towards the elevator with the hand that still held that small black box that had Aidan’s stomach turning.
“And fucking her sister was really the best way to show that?” Aidan demanded.
“I messed up! I never should have listened to Caitlyn. I never should have given up on the best thing that ever happened to me, and I never should have-”
“Come here,” Aidan finished for him.
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“I dropped a bedpan on my first patient,” came the announcement as soon as Melanie opened the bathroom door to find Aidan sitting on the bed, watching her.