"Thalia, do you think we should go down?"
We'd promised to stay put, but I really wanted to. "Let's give them another five minutes."
Chapter 57.
Jack Walking downstairs, I felt sick and by the look on Liam's face I'd say he was feeling the same. Confronting our parents wasn't something we'd done before. I mean we'd had disagreements and in high school they'd constantly been on my back about the band, which they still had no idea about, and that was going to stay that way.
"You ready?" Liam asked about to open the kitchen door.
I nodded and pushed forward. Both our parents were sitting at the table drinking coffee, having already eaten, by the look of things.
Seeing the coffee brewing, I walked over and poured both Liam and me a cup, gulped some of mine down then turned to face my folks, knowing I had to start this conversation.
"What's wrong?" Mom asked.
"I'm not marrying Mia. I never loved her, but I love Thalia."
They were both speechless for all of a few seconds, before Mom found her tongue, "You're in love with your brother's girl. Is that what you just said?"
"Mom, what Jack said is true, but it might help you understand better if I admit that I'm in love with Mia and always have been. We had a kind of misunderstanding three years ago, but it's all been resolved. I wasn't dating Thalia when we arrived here. Yes, we went on a few dates, but nothing worked because my heart wanted Mia, so I became friends with Thalia instead."
"This is ridiculous. Jack you have to marry Mia. She'll be an asset when you become a lawyer. I've already been through this with you. Why can't you just go with the flow?" Dad ground his teeth together and started to rise from the table.
"Graham, calm down. Didn't you hear what they said, Liam is in love with Mia, and I presume she loves him."
"Yes, I do love him, and I always have," Mia answered walking into the room with a nervous looking Thalia behind her.
Liam walked over to her, wrapping her up in his arms while Thalia looked at me.
"Come here, babe."
I held my arm out and as soon as she was in reach, I pulled her in to my side. "What happened to staying upstairs?" I whispered into her ear.
"I needed to be here with you." She wrapped her arm around my waist.
"Fucking hell!" Dad yelled, sitting back down rather heavily on his chair. "What am I going to tell Lewis? He's not going to take this lightly, that I do know."
My dad had seemed to change his tune as soon as Mia and Thalia walked into the room, which surprised me.
"About my tuition..."
Dad was shaking his head. "Don't worry about that, it was all talk. I really did think you'd get on well with Mia and assumed you just needed a shove in the right direction, that's why I agreed to this wedding idea of Lewis'. I used the threat of no tuition to get you to agree. I must admit at first I refused to even mention it to you when Lewis came up with the idea, but he eventually talked me into it."
"Graham, you told me Jack had been seeing Mia for a while in secret. You told me he loved her and that was why they wanted to get married. Are you telling me that you lied to me?"
He sighed. "Slightly... I'm sorry, but you can't tell me you didn't think it was a good match between Jack and Mia, although I have to admit that seeing her now with Liam makes me realize how wrong I was to begin with."
"I can't believe you would lie to me."
Dad took hold of my mom's hands. "It's the only time I've ever lied to you, because I really did think they belonged with each other, or rather I'd let Lewis convince me they belonged together. Lewis kept telling me that if I didn't step in Jack would hook up with someone who really wasn't suitable, full of body art, etc., to take to charity functions representing the law firm... So I agreed," he whispered the last bit, resting his head in his hands.
My dad's comment had me cringing inside; little did he know that I had quite a bit.
"We need to head over to Mia's house so her folks know there won't be a wedding," I told my dad, pulling Thalia in closer to me.
I needed her close to me because I was afraid if I let go, I'd wake up and discover I'd been dreaming, which would crush me like nothing else ever could.
My dad stood and walked over to me; Thalia moved out of my arms slightly, but kept her arm around my back.
"Jack, I owe you a huge apology. You're my son and I love you. I should never have threatened you with your career. I'm so sorry."
Hugging my dad, I sagged in relief. I hadn't expected the response we'd received from him or his easy acceptance.
"Ah, Dad," Liam said.
"Liam and Mia, I owe you both an apology as well. I'm sorry and I hope you'll forgive me."
"We do Dad, but about the wedding..."
"Don't worry about that," Mom said.
"Mom," Liam shouted to be heard. "The wedding is not being canceled. I've asked Mia to marry me and we're going to get married on Saturday."
Well, that stunned everyone into silence.
Grinning, I held my hand out to my brother. "Congratulations guys."
"Yeah, wow. Congratulations," Thalia told them.
"Liam. You can't get married in two days," Mom said, in a panic.
"Why not. I already have my suit. Mia has her dress. Thalia has the bridesmaid dress. Everything is arranged, so what is the problem?"
"Ah, well...Nothing...Are you sure this is what you want to do. I know you love her. I can see that. In fact, I saw that when I caught you both out back in a rather heated kiss."
I roared with laughter when I saw the look on Liam's face. I couldn't see Mia as she had her face buried in Liam's chest.
Thalia pinched me on the butt, which had me instantly hard. I turned more into her and pressed against her hip. Her eyes widened when she realized I was hard.
"That's what you do to me," I whispered into her neck.
"Jack, for goodness sake. Leave the girl alone. Thalia, Mia let's head into the other room and discuss the wedding. Some things will need changing and there's too much of a distraction in here for you girls."
It was hard not to laugh at what my mom said, although I did feel a slight embarrassment, considering she obviously knew where my thoughts were. The only problem I had was letting Thalia move away from me while I had a misbehaving body part.
"Can you give me a minute? I just need a quick word with Jack."
Without waiting for my mom to answer her, Thalia shoved me towards the door and through it. Taking my hand, she tugged me out of sight of the window, shoved me up against the wall and stuck her tongue down my throat grinding her pussy against me.
"I've wanted to do that since the minute you pulled me into your arms," she told me nibbling my ear lobe, sending shivers through me to the tip of my cock.
I growled, cupped her butt in my hands and hoisted her up and into me, turning so her back was against the wall. Our mouths met, our tongues mated and nothing ever felt so good.
My cock was hard as fucking steel in my jeans; I was so ready to burst with the frantic movements Thalia was making against it.
"So close... I've been wet and aching for you since we woke up," she moaned.
She was going to kill me. Instead of drawing back, I grabbed her hips to hold her still, slid one hand down the inside of her jeans pressing with my finger against her anus. At the same time I rubbed my dick back and forth against her jean clad pussy, using my finger I pressed in slightly, only to have her come apart on me. I sealed our mouths together to hold in the sound of her moans while she continued to ride the ridge of my cock.
I was desperate to come, but I knew there was no way in hell I could let that happen out here, although I was damn close to blowing. I had to get Thalia away from the sensitive area and fast.
I dropped her legs back to the floor and stepped back slightly, keeping a hold on her, as she looked unsteady on her legs. I grinned because it was so hot knowing I'd done that to her.
"You are lethal, Phoenix," she said grinning, looking down at my junk, then back up to my face.
"Ah, isn't that uncomfortable?"
"Hurts like hell, but now isn't the time or place," I groaned watching her lick her lips. "You go back inside so I have a chance of getting back to normal."
"Phoenix, the only way that's going down is if you come."
She looked so cute when she blushed.
"I already jerked off in the shower this morning so I've no plans to do it again today. This will go down if you're not standing there looking ready to eat me."
She looked flabbergasted. "You've already... Never mind. I don't want to think about that because I'll end up wet again."
She turned tail and walked back towards the kitchen door, looked at me, gave me a saucy grin then walked through the door.
Fucking hell.
Chapter 58.
Thalia Earlier, when I'd been standing in the kitchen with Phoenix and his family, listening to them discuss what was going to happen, had filled my belly with nerves. They seemed to accept the decision both their sons had made, especially Stephanie with her including me in the wedding plans, which were going to be changed to Mia and Liam, instead of Phoenix. For some reason though I still felt uneasy, as though a bomb was about to be dropped.
Phoenix, Liam and their father had gone along to Mia's house to talk with her father about the change in groom. Graham had been unsure about what Lewis' reaction would be, whereas Mia was terrified that he'd get really angry and follow through on his threat to remove her mother.
That had been three hours ago and neither Mia nor myself had heard anything from them. I'd tried to ring Phoenix and Mia had tried Liam, but neither one was answering their phones. Mia, as a last resort, had tried to ring Stephanie on her cell, but no answer there.
My gut was telling me that something was wrong, but what, I had no idea. There were three of them so I didn't believe Lewis had taken his temper out on them, but why the hell hadn't Phoenix rang me?
"Thalia, stop pacing. You're making me and Mia dizzy," Callie informed me from her bed in the inn.
The guys had dropped us off with Callie on the way to Mia's parents' place. We'd also been in time to watch Reece sneaking out back, much to my friend's embarrassment.
"Why the hell are they taking so long? And why haven't they rung one of us? It doesn't make any sense. It shouldn't take this long. Ugh."
"I don't know why, but you're making me more nervous."
I came to a dead stop and stared at them. "Okay," I huffed out a breath and plopped down into the chair by the window.
"You need a distraction," Callie informed me.
Distraction. When I needed a distraction it was usually with thoughts of Phoenix. "So, what was Reece doing here, and what about Donovan?" I grinned, as she seemed to look hot all of a sudden.
"Reece told me he didn't want Donovan involved with me again. He doesn't want to share me." She grinned coyly.
I met her eyes then started laughing along with Mia. "So Reece wanted you all to himself. That's hot, just like I bet Reece is naked." I couldn't stop giggling.
"Oh my God. You're embarrassing."
"It was you who said I needed distracting. I think you should give details."
"No."
"No? I'm your best friend; you're not allowed to say no. Give me something. Please." She still looked embarrassed, but she also had a dreamy look on her face. That was something I needed to think about.
"All I'm going to say is that I think piercings...ah...in certain places are...well...hot."
"I only have to see Phoenix's and my panties are wet." I turned my attention on Mia. "You need to persuade Liam to get pierced. It will blow your mind."
She cringed. "No thanks. I love him just the way he is, besides can you imagine the pain of having his thingy pierced."
"Thingy," Callie croaked.
Mia shot up off the bed as someone banged on the bedroom door.
With the door open, I could only see Liam who pulled Mia out of the room and into his arms, and then Phoenix was there. About to run to him his body language pulled me up short.
"Callie, I know this is your room, but do you think I could have a private word with Thalia?" he asked without one glance at me.
Callie looked at me then back to Phoenix, then me again, "Thalia?"
I couldn't speak, and just nodded my head.
She grabbed her purse and walked towards the door. "I'll be downstairs," she said in warning, closing the door behind her.