After spending an hour with the men of Andie’s family, I can honestly say that I think I fit in well. It was a toss up as to who would be the one to head out to Kasey’s house first, and yes I was included in that.

Kasey is the first through the door and the women start laughing as we all file in behind him. I spot Andie shaking her head as I make my way over to her and move in for a kiss. My hands linger on her hips and one slips down to grab a handful of her plump ass.

I nuzzle into her neck. “I can’t keep my hands off you.”

“I’ve noticed,” she mumbles, biting my earlobe.

I shudder and meet her gaze. “Don’t start something we can’t finish here.”

“God! Please don’t,” Kasey says from beside us.

We glance at him and find him grinning while shoving his mouth full with a strawberry and cream pastry. He smirks. “Thought I better remind you both that you aren’t alone.”

“As though I’d forget. Jeez, Kasey.” Andie slips an arm around my waist and hangs on to me. I have no complaint.

“So Andie,” Mateo joins us, “you’ve finally got your Professor.” He grins. “We approve. Just in case you were wondering.”

She rolls her eyes as he disappears. “That’s nice to know.” She turns to Kasey. “Where’s Blake?”

Kasey loses his smile and sighs. “He didn’t really want to come, but I guilt him into it. So he’s probably sulking out back.” He glances in what I presume to be the correct direction before he moves away, distracted.

“Blake didn’t seem to be all that interested earlier, and when the guys suggested crashing here, he asked for a lift home.” I shrug. “I don’t know him well enough to form a judgment, but I think he feels like a stranger looking in.”

Andie doesn’t miss anything, and asks, “Is that how you feel?”

“I only met them an hour ago. They made me feel welcome, but they’re a unit and I’m not part of that...yet.” I squeeze her hand. “One day.”

She snuggles against me. “On the odd occasion I still feel like that, but Kasey always seems to know when I’m going in on myself and manages to change that. He’s a good friend.”

“I’m glad. Everyone needs that one good friend,” I say with a wistful note to my voice. “Pattie’s mine,” I admit. “After Mom left, Dad worked long hours to put food on the table so we were left alone a lot.” I shrug when she searches my gaze. “She’s nosey and interferes when she thinks I’m screwing something up, but she’s always been there. More than anyone.”

Reaching up she places a soft kiss on my nose. “Well, I hope you know that you have me now too.” Nuzzling into my neck, she adds, “I mean that, Sawyer.”

I bring my hand up and caress the nape of her neck. “I know that. We have each other.”

Just standing here with Andie in my arms while the rest of her family talk and laugh is surreal. I’ve wanted to be with her for so long that sometimes during the day I have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming.

At the back of my mind though is the fact that she’s my TA and that I’m her graduate adviser. I could lose my job for being with her, but as I feel her breathing softly against my chest, I realize that I’m not bothered if that happens because she’d be worth it. She’s worth every damn thing that I have.

“You two are looking awfully cozy,” Eric drawls, a bottle of coke tipped at his lips.

Andie immediately pulls away and going up on her toes, wraps her arms around Eric’s broad shoulders, or at least tries to as the man looks startled before he returns her hug. “Sylvia told us. Congratulations.”

Eric’s grin spreads across his face as he laughs. “She let the cat out of the bag did she?”

“Hmm, so did Erin and Sarah as well,” Andie says laughing. “It’s a right baby boom. I bet Lucia doesn’t know which way to turn.”

Eric laughs as Andie takes ahold of my hand.

“Lucia will be in her element with all these babies, so will my dad.” He chuckles. “It’s nice to have you along for the ride, Sawyer.” Eric holds his hand out, which I accept and shake.

“I wouldn’t wish to be anywhere else,” I admit while looking directly at Andie.

“These women have a habit of grabbing a guy by the balls and not letting go,” his gaze softens as they land on his wife, “and I wouldn’t change that for anything.” He grins. “Catch you around.”

Eric disappears and I feel Andie tugging on my hand. “Let’s go and find Blake.”

Andie leads me by the hand out of the house through the back patio and that’s where we find Blake. He’s moved himself from the wheelchair to one of the patio chairs and looks deep in thought as he peels the label on the water bottle.

He spots us approaching and just watches with a scowl on his face. He probably wants to be left alone at least by us because I certainly saw him take notice when Violet’s name was mentioned before we arrived here to join the ladies. He’d gotten upset when Kasey had mentioned some guy in town had been asking Violet out for a while now, and that he thought she’d eventually accept. So yeah, Blake hadn’t been impressed.

Wrapping her arm around Blake’s neck, she kisses him on his cheek before sitting beside him. “It’s good to see you.”

He offers a wry smile and watches as I sit next to Andie. “It’s good to see you too. Been a while.”

“Too long.” Andie grins. “I’m still waiting for you to visit me in Colorado...and I don’t want to hear anything about the chair, okay. Just say the word and we’ll get you there...please.”

Blake stares at Andie for a few minutes and then offers her a soft smile before he looks at me. “Don’t screw it up with her.”

“I’ve no intention of doing that.”

“Talking about screwing up,” Andie glares at Blake, “what did we talk about the last time we hung out?”

Blake blushes but holds her gaze. “I’m stuck in a chair. I can’t even get a job like this. She deserves the world, Andie. I can’t give her that.”

“I’m not going to hound you because I can see you don’t need that, but, have you thought that maybe the only world she wants is yours?”

Blake stills until he moves his gaze over to the mountains in the distance.

Kissing his cheek, Andie whispers something before kissing him once more and taking my hand she drags me further into the garden.

“What was that about?” I ask the minute we’re alone. “All that kissing.”

She grins. “You’re jealous of me kissing him?”

I think about it for a minute and realize that I am but I decide to stay silent because I don’t think she’d appreciate my jealousy at least when it’s directed at Blake.

Pushing me up against a tree, out of the view of others, she cups my face in her cool hands, so I let my hands wander and cupping her bottom, I tug her up against me.

Her eyes roll before she focuses on me. “Blake is a friend, and only a friend. He is a handsome guy, but I met you first, and there is no comparison. My guy is sexy and so damn hot that my panties melt when he looks at me. Plus, Blake is in love with Violet, but won’t admit it. Or what I really believe is that he has admitted it to himself, but thinks that he doesn’t have anything to offer her, which he’s practically admitted.” She shrugs. “He’s a great guy and I really want him to have a life with Violet. So does Felicity, except she has no patience with him right now. I think it’s her hormones.”

“Yeah, women and their hormones.” I shudder and laugh at the surprise on Andie’s face. “What? Pattie has enough hormones for five women. Scares the fuck out of me.”

She laughs and drags a groan from between my lips when she rubs against my dick.

Pressing her tightly against me, I beg, “Not here where your family can find us.”

“You’re rock hard.” She moans. “I think we can be quick.” On her last words, she gives me a cheeky smirk and slowly starts to nuzzle down my chest until her fingers find my belt.

With ease she unbuckles me and I’ve lost the will to stop her. Even with the possibility of being caught, I can’t stop her. I ache for her touch just like I do all the damn time. She knows this too and uses it to her advantage, which I have to say, I’m totally okay with.

Her fingers feel amazing as they wrap around me and bring my cock out and toward her waiting mouth. I pant with the arousal coursing through me. The sight of her on her knees with my cockhead hovering so close to her red lips has precum tingling through the length and seeping from the tip. My breaths become heavier as I wait with anticipation for her to take me into her mouth.

I don’t wait long and quiver when she reaches out, wrapping her hand around the base of my shaft. “Don’t take your eyes off me,” she whispers, and then I can’t breathe as the crown of my cock disappears between her red lips. The feel and the visual have my balls aching and then when she closes her mouth tightly around me, my legs quiver. She slowly pulls back, teasing me to the brink. The impression of her lips is on my cock, making me harder at the sight.

Her lips tip up at the corners in a wide grin as she looks at her handy work, and strokes with one finger along the underside before pressing her nail between the slit. “I want you to come in my mouth while you watch me work you over.”

I let out a gargled groan of ecstasy as my flesh disappears into her mouth. She takes me slowly until her nose nuzzles the hairs on my pelvis...and then she just as slowly lets me slip out to the tip before she sucks, getting the volcano inside my balls ready to explode.

I arch toward her mouth, grabbing ahold of the branches above me for support. The heat and wetness surrounding my cock feels amazing and then I nudge the back of her throat as she takes me so deep that I’m snug. The combination of the hand between my legs, the vibrations along my cock, and the visual, have my balls bursting, shooting the fire along my cock as I spill down her throat. She swallows everything and the more she swallows the more I spill. I’m sure the top of my head is about to blow off, and I don’t mean the one on my shoulders.

Her tongue wraps around me and my belly quivers when her fingers reach under my shirt. Digging her nails into my chest she slowly drags them down and tangles her fingers in my pubes.

My hoarse groan brings me back to my senses and gasping for breath, I gently push her away, freeing my rapidly hardening dick.

“I don’t know what to say,” I moan, staring into her delighted gaze.

“That was amazing.” She swirls her tongue around her lips and smirks when my cock bobs in front of her face. “I think someone else enjoyed it.” She kisses the tip and holds her hand out so that I can pull her up from the ground.

She wraps herself in my arms and as our lips meld together the kiss is so heated that my toes curl and my cock becomes so stiff that I wouldn’t have thought I’d only just come hard.

“I liked having you stretched out like that,” she whispers against our parted lips. “It made me wet having you at my mercy while my red lips wrapped around you. Giving you pleasure.”

“Stop.” I breathe. “We’re in your family’s back garden and all I want to do is pull your dress up and fuck your wet pussy.”

She groans, rubbing against me. “I’m so tempted to let you.”

“I know.” I kiss her button nose and put her away from me.

I don’t miss the look on her face as she watches me tug up my shorts and jeans up, and shove everything away so that I’m presentable.

“You do realize that they’re going to know exactly what we’ve been doing in the garden.” She smirks. “Well, not exactly, because they’ll think we’ve had a quick fuck.”

I groan. “You need to stop saying words like that. It’s damn hot coming out of your mouth.”

“Hmm,” her fingers crawl up my chest, “I’d rather you be coming in my mouth.”

“Fuck!” I curse and crush my mouth over hers to shut her up. The whole damn package of Andie Foster turns me on.

A throat being cleared slowly penetrates through the fog that my heads been in since I first saw Andie on her knees. It’s only when it’s cleared again, more loudly than before, that I move my lips away from hers.

Over Andie’s shoulder is Dante, the former priest. I find it really difficult to imagine him wearing a collar—not with how heated his eyes get when his wife is around. His daughter Emma is three months old and the man is absolutely besotted with his family, which is the way it should be—the way that I want it to be with Andie.

“Diego’s looking for you, Andie,” Dante offers. “Rae’s about to open her gifts and wants you there.”

“Oh crap! I forgot.” Andie quickly kisses my cheek and heads off toward the house.

“The women go nuts when there’s a baby on the way,” he comments.

I let out a relieved laugh that nothing is going to be mentioned about him finding me with my tongue down Andie’s throat. “My sister has the habit of complaining that she’ll be married and have ten kids by the time I get married.”

“How old is your sister?”

“Thirty and single.” I pause. “At least she was. She’s kind of a serial dater and has told me on numerous occasions that she’ll stop when she meets the one.” I fall in beside Dante as he starts moving toward the house. “I think she’d run the opposite direction, so it would have to be a strong man to catch her.”

“Hmm.” Dante looks off into the distance. “A good woman can bring a strong man to his knees...I spent years running from my feelings for Emelia, and in the end we’re together anyway. So all those years wasted.”

“Do you truly believe that they’re wasted years though? Didn’t those years apart give you both a better understanding for the future? Help mature you both?”

Dante considers my words and when his face lights, I know that I’ve lost him to the woman who is currently moving toward him. Maybe not completely when he says, “Perhaps you’re correct, Professor. But I do know that I can’t live without Emelia...I have a feeling that you feel that way about Andie.”

“She’s a beautiful intelligent woman who has me tied in knots. Not even the threat of losing my job diminishes that.”

After he takes his wife into his arms and after he’s planted a kiss to her lips, he adds, “Don’t let her get away.”

“Not planning on it.”

“Not planning on what?” Aiden asks, joining the tail end of our conversation.

Dante laughs. “I’ll let you explain, I want five minutes alone with my wife.”

Aiden stands next to me, watching them walk away. “Andie keeps glancing at the patio doors. I’m presuming she’s waiting for you.”

I glance in the direction he said and feel my heart beat harder.

“I don’t know if Andie has told you anything about me, but I’ve been friends with her mom for a long a time, since Andie was in high school. She means the world to me—”

“Say no more,” I interrupt. “My intentions are honorable.” I laugh and run my hands through my hair. “I feel like a broken record, but I get it. I get that she has a lot of people who care about her here, and I respect that. But at the end of the day what happens between Andie and I, is between us.”

Aiden nods. “For the record, you don’t need to say anything as it’s written all over your face.” He grins. “If you’re going to be around us, you need to practice your poker face...and watch Diego and Kasey because they cheat.”

“Good to know.”

“I’m heading out now with Sarah, she really isn’t feeling too well. But it was nice to meet you, after hearing about you for so long.” Aiden offers his hand.

I shake. “Thanks. I’ll see you again, and tell your wife that I hope she’s soon able to enjoy her pregnancy.”

He grins. “I like you.”

Aiden disappears from view so I slowly walk back to the house while imagining what it would be like to be a permanent part of this family. I find that I can’t imagine not being.

Entering through the opened glass doors, I spot Andie sitting beside her mom and the minute her eyes find mine across the room, everything else fades, and her smile at seeing me is one I’ll never forget.