Heather just blushed and shrugged her shoulders. “He has a certain something that I might find attractive. I don’t know.”

“Well you know, Brad told me that ever since the wedding, Josh has pretty much given up his playboy ways! The guys keep teasing him about losing his touch with the ladies!”

We all looked at each other. Ari raised her eyebrow at me and I looked over at Amanda and then Heather.

“Hey, that lake house has six f**king bedrooms…..that is more than enough for all four us to get laid……” Ari said as she walked over and grabbed her purse. “Come on bitches…..let’s go get some.….Jeff sent me a text and I’ve decided to forgive him and let him make it up to me with sex.”

“OH MY GOD! I am not sleeping with JOSH!” Heather screamed.

“Don’t then…..all I know is my ass is wanting me some Jefferson……”

“EEEWWW! OHMYGOD! That is my brother for f**ks sake! GROSS.”

“Come on girls since I’m the only one who has not been drinking my ass off I will drive.” Amanda said as she grabbed her keys and we made our way over to crash the boy’s party!

Josh opened the door and looked shocked to see the four of standing there. Once he saw Heather he smiled.

“What the hell are y’all doing here? This is a private party.”

“Get the f**k out of the way dickwad….” Ari said as she pushed past Josh.

“Hey Heather, how have you been?” Josh asked Heather in the sweetest way I had ever heard him talk.

“I um, I’ve been good….feeling a little tipsy but good!”

I thought I heard Josh mutter fuck. The way he was looking at Heather made me smile. If I had to guess I would say he was very interested in our little Heather!

“Where is Jeff?”

“He is sitting out on the deck with Brad and Gunner.”

Ari started making a run for the deck……Jesus……if didn’t know any better I would think she was the one getting married. As we walked up I could see Jefferson running his hands through his hair and Gunner and Brad looked like they both wanted to throw up. What was going on? Gunner looked up at Ari and at first frowned….HUH? But then he saw me and smiled that beautiful melt my panties smile of his.

Ari slid the door open and walked up to the back of Jeff. I noticed Gunner kick Jeff in the leg……almost like he was trying to get him to stop talking. Ari put her hands around Jefferson’s eyes and whispered……

“Guess who was feeling a little lonely?” Jefferson flew up out of his chair and looked stunned. What was going on here? Amanda walked over and sat on Brad’s lap as they started to kiss. I looked at each guy, first Brad, then Gunner and then Jefferson. Something was wrong. Really wrong. I could see it in Jefferson’s face. He shook his head at me as if to tell me to leave it alone. Gunner reached up and grabbed my hand.

“Hey sweetheart what are y’all doing here?” I sat down on his lap and I could instantly feel his erection growing. Hmmmm….this is why I’m here. I wiggled a little and smiled. I reached down and gave my second favorite guy a scratch behind the ears. Gus just wagged his tail and went back to sleep.

“She was horny you ass wipe and kept trying to escape the wonderful spa party we had going on for her! So instead of trying to keep her away we hand delivered her ass to you!” Ari said as she was rubbing her ass into my brother’s crotch……BLAH……I was going to throw up! Jefferson spun her around and whispered something into her ear. I saw her nod her head yes. Jefferson leaned down and asked Brad something to which he replied “Third one on the left”. Jefferson took Ari’s hand and led her back into the house.

Holy shit……they were going to go have sex! Amanda asked Brad something and he laughed. They both stood up and started to go into the house. He leaned down and whispered to Gunner. “Take the master dude.”

Gunner just nodded and then looked at me.

“Jesus…...are they all really leaving to go have sex?” I asked as I watched Brad and Amanda walk in and say something to Heather and Josh who were standing at the kitchen bar talking.

“Looks like it sweetheart. Now what is this about you being horny?”

I started to laugh. I leaned down and whispered into Gunner’s ear.

“I really want you Mr. Mathews. Now!”

Gunner had me off his lap and walking into the house faster than I even knew what hit me. As we walked by Josh and Heather were so deep in conversation they did not even notice us walking by.

Gunner and I made our way down to the master bedroom. Would I always feel so nervous with him? Just the thought of making love to him had my stomach doing flips.

“Oh my god….does it just keep getting better Gunner?” I said as I lay across his chest trying to catch my breath.

He let out a laugh as he stroked my back with his hand……up and down. God it felt so good.

“I have a feeling it is going to be even better when we are married.”

I pushed myself up and looked down at him. He smiled at me but I could tell something was wrong.

“Gunner, what’s going on with Jefferson?”

He let out a sigh. “Fuck Ellie, I can’t be the one to tell you. I don’t want to be the one to tell you.”

Oh no….it was bad. Did something happen with the property? One of his horses or oh god Ari’s horse?

“Gunner…I saw the look on his face. It’s big….tell me what is going on.”

Gunner moved me off of him and sat up.

“Ellie you cannot tell Ari a word of what I am about to tell you. Promise me baby you won’t say anything.”

Oh holy shit. Maybe I didn’t want to know.

“Um, okay. I promise you Gunner. I won’t say a word.”

“Jeff needs to find out some shit before he talks to Ari about this.”

“Okay….”

“I mean it all could turn out to not even be true.”

“GUNNER! Just tell me!”

He ran his hands through his hair…...oh god how I wanted to do that…...oh gosh focus Ellie…..focus……

“Jeff got a call about forty five minutes ago from Rebecca. The girl he slept with that night at your graduation party.”

“Okay…what did she want?”

“I guess Jeff hooked up with her the weekend before Thanksgiving. Ran into her at Rebels and ended up f**king her in his truck that night.”

Nice……not the image I wanted in my head right now.

I just nodded and he kept talking.

“Well, anyway, she just called him and told him she was seven months pregnant and the baby was his.”

Mother f**king son of a bitch. NO!

“Oh no! No Gunner no! This is going to destroy Ari! Why didn’t he use protection?”

“He swears he did, he told her it was impossible but she said something about finding a piece of condom in her underwear later that night. But Jeff said he was not drunk and when he took the condom off it was not broke.”

“Then she’s lying Gunner. She has to be lying!”

“Jeff thinks she is but the only way to find out for sure is to wait until the baby is born and take a paternity test.”

“Why did she wait until she was seven months pregnant before she said anything?”

“She said something about hearing from a friend he was about to get married. She must think he is getting married this weekend and she wanted to drop the bomb on him before he got married.”

“Oh my god what a bitch! Ari is going to kill her Gunner.”

“Yeah, I know. But hey, don’t let this ruin our day okay? Jeff will take care of it. You have to trust him Ells to take care of it all okay baby?”

I nodded my head. Oh god. He was going to ask Ari to marry him Saturday night after the wedding. Is he going to tell her?

“Is he going to tell Ari?”

“Yeah he just needs to talk to Rebecca first and then he is going to tell Ari.”

“Is he still planning on asking her to marry him this weekend?”

“YES! Of course he is sweetheart. He loves her more than anything.”

“He needs to tell her right away Gunner. I don’t think he should wait.”

Gunner nodded but I know he was just as lost as I was.

I started thinking about the conversation I had with Ari just yesterday. We were wrapping up party favors that Jenny had sent up for us to do and Ari was talking about wanting to start a family right away. How she couldn’t wait to see Jefferson’s face when she told him for the first time she was pregnant. Oh god…my chest was hurting.

Poor Ari.

CHAPTER SIXTY

Ellie…….

Saturday….the wedding…..

“Do you want to go and check everything out before everyone gets here Ellie? If so, now would be our time to go.”

Jenny was amazing! They way she was handling everything and doing such a great job at it! I had no doubt everything was going to look beautiful. She really needed to start a business doing this stuff with the way she made the cabin look when Gunner asked me to marry him; my heart was beating a mile a minute. She took us down to the wedding site first. It was a good thing my makeup was not done yet. It was exactly how I wanted it. The first thing I noticed was our tree. Hanging from the tree were about fifty small flower vases that we spent days making out of old bottles and mason jars. My fingers were almost raw from wrapping thin wire around and around the jars so that we could hang them in the trees. Daisies and other wild flowers were in each one. They looked beautiful. Then I saw all the hay bales. They were set in rows and had old quilts and blankets over each one. The way Gunner and Jefferson set them up there was a small back also so that people would be able to lean back while sitting down. Emma and her quilting club made pillows to put on the hay bales as well. The little fans on each row were perfect! They each had the letter M on them. I almost cried just thinking about how my name was going to be Ellie Mathews in just a few short hours.

The aisle that was made for the wedding party to walk down already had a few dozen red and pink flower petals spread around. Ari’s little Cousin Lauren was the flower girl and her little brother Matthew was the ring barrier. They would both look so cute walking down the aisle.

I wanted the wedding site to be very simple nothing more than the vases hanging in the tree. I did not want to take away from the beautiful location where we were getting married. I walked around and smiled. The memory of that night flooded back to me. The endless talking about our favorite movies, singers, songs, the beautiful stars……my first orgasm. I felt the heat rush into my face and I had to look around to see if anyone was watching me. I’m sure I was as red as those rose petals. This place was so special to me. Someday we would bring our kids here and show them the nighttime stars just like Gunner did for me.

“Is everything how you want Ellie?” Jenny asked as she walked around with a clip board and her cell phone ever present in her hand. I just smiled at her.

“I can never ever repay you for how wonderful you have made this day for me Jenny. It’s perfect. Thank you so much for listening to me when I said I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. I just….I just love it.”