+15 bBONUS /b

Meadow’s POV:

I woke up with his head between my legs.

To be fair, I had been half–awake for a while, just reveling in the way he held me so close to himb, /bmy back against his chest. But then, he must’ve noticed that I was awake from the way my breathing pattern

changed.

He’d kissed my neck, slowly running his firm hand over my stomach and chest, and then he had turned me so I was on my back. “Still pretending?” he murmured, and without another word, he made his way down my body, kissing a trail down until he got to my panties.

“I’m not pretending,” I whined yfully. “I am truly asleep.”

“Fine then.” ric tore my panties at the sides. b“/bI’ll wake you up.”

I had muttered some gibberish about him ruining another nice pair of panties, but my words got stuck in my throat when he lowered his lips to my center and took his time to eat me out.

Safe to say that I definitely woke up after that very eventful morning. And after ric made us breakfast and we ate, he fucked me on the counter and we may have identally knocked down the coffeemaker.

But he brushed it off, saying, in his words: “I’ll get you a hundred more coffeemakers if you’re so bothered about it.” And yeah… I came after he said that.

But soon, reality set in–well, only a little bit of reality. lric had to leave for a while to check out whatever the hell he had been working on. God, I couldn’t wait to see what it was. He said he was going to

take me tonight.

And during the two or so hours that he was gone, I picked up my phone and turned it on. And as expected, I had text and missed calls from my sister.

I ignored them, instead choosing to only return Nova’s call.

“What the actual hell, Meadow?” Nova gritted out the moment she answered. I cringed, the phone pressed

against my ear.

“Sorry,” bI /bmanaged.

“God! I’ve been trying to reach you sincest night and you just… Did you know I went to that house this morning all because I wanted to make sure you were okay?”

I’d barely opened my mouth when she continued. “bI /bonly met Mel there, and apparently, she wasn’t informed that you two were leaving either.”

I ran my hand through my hair, throwing my head back against the couch. “It wasn’t nned, I swear. We

just… we just needed to get away from the whole craziness for a bit.”

“Right,” she murmured after a while. “Also, bad news. I ran into Juniperst night.”

My eyes widened, my heart beat stuttering. I wasn’t sure why, but all of a sudden, a sense of dread slithered down my spine. “You did?” bMy /bvoice was airy. Anything concerning my sister just made me extra anxious. “What did she want?”

“Well,” she heaved a sigh, and I could tell she was moving about, probably making coffee or breakfast.” She demanded to know where you live. And at first, I denied it, but when she didn’t stop pushing, I admitted to knowing, but I didn’t tell her.”

I chewed nervously at the corner of my lip in silence. “And what did she say after that?”

b“/bJust a few colorful words,” Nova replied, and I could practically see her shrugging through the phone. Words that I sent back, of course.” Sheughed. “You know, at first, she’d seemed… less deranged than

usual. I was almost convinced that she had changed.”

My brows drew together. “Oh?”

“Yeah. A little nicer and I would’ve thought she was you.”

i” /i

Now, those words sent the real dreadful shiver down my spine. Usually, Juniper hated me so much that

she would rather die than do anything to mirror me. The only time she weed it was when she was

trying to impersonate me.

And that had worked a few times.

I didn’t want to jump into conclusion, but I really fucking hoped she wasn’t trying to do anything insane.

b“/bYou’re a little quiet,” Nova spoke up after a while. “Are you okayb?/b”

b“/bUm, yeah. Yeah. I just… I don’t want to talk about her, Nova. I came here with ric for a reason. To forget about all that and just have some time to ourselves.”

“So…” she drawled. “A honeymoon?b” /b

A smile curved the corner of my lips up as I remembered mentioning a honeymoonst night to ric. The words he had said to me… gosh.

‘Do you want one? Because I’ll cancel every single fucking thing on my te and we would go wherever

byou /bwant,‘

He wasn’t even trying itoo /ihard, or even trying hard at all. He was just doing what he genuinely wanted to do–which was to make me happy.

If only there weren’t other things threatening toe between us. If only there wasn’t already so much happening, and if only ric didn’t just want me because I could touch him…

Maybe I could let myself fall for him.

The moment that thought crossed my mind, I heard the sound of the door opening and shutting. And not long after, ric turned the corner into the living room–with a bouquet of roses and a few other shopping bags in his hands.

I quickly ended the call with Nova–much to her displeasure, and then I made my way to ric. He had on a ck t–shirt today instead of a suit, and this way, his tattooed arm looked even sexier exposed.

“You went shopping?” I asked, letting out a gasp as he immediately yanked me against him, handing me the flowers and letting the bags drop to the floor.

“Just wanted to grab you a quick present for tonight.”

My brow arched. “Oh?”

“Mmm,” ric hummed positively. “But first…” He leaned in, merging his lips with mine, and fireworks instantly exploded in my chest as the bouquet fell from my hand and onto the floor. I wrapped my arms around his neck, arching into him when he carried me off the floor.

“Fuck…” He rasped after a while. “I wish…” But then he trailed off, and I was left to wonder what he said.

“You wish what?” I breathed, peppering kisses all over his face. But then he spoke, and even before he did, I could feel a slight tension in the air. “ric?”

He smirked instead, picking up the bags from the floor without letting me down. And then we made our way to the room where he tossed me onto the bed.

“I want you to try these on,” he murmured, eyes not leaving my body which was covered in only his shirt.

And before I could even start to ask what on earth he was talking about, he continued. “It’s what you’re wearing to the club tonight, baby.”

He walked out of the room, leaving me alone. And in my perplexed state, I reached for one of the bags–a

Victoria’s Secret onei. /i

And when I pulled out the items in the bag, my eyes widened, jaw dropping open.

ckce. That was all I could see. A new lingerie set.

And I was about to start figuring out how I was going to put them on when I saw the small velvet box at the bottom of the bag.

And when I flipped it open, my eyes widened even further.

It was a ck silicone U–shaped device–a panty vibrator. And right next to it was a small silver remote that was clearly made to operate it.