Page 141 of Faking it For Summer

“What’s that?” Mia asks and looks at me. “Are there million-dollar bills?” she asks, and I laugh as she wrinkles her nose.

“Please do tell us what awaits us,” I add.

“True love,” Lucille answers in a breathy sigh. “True love is rarer than any precious metal or jewel. It is the one thing money can’t buy.”

“You found each other, haven’t you?” my grandma asks, and there’s hope in her voice. “You realize now that the special connection you both have is more than just friendship, right? It’s destiny.”

Mia and I stare at each other, and I squeeze her hand before reaching up and caressing the side of her face. My heart flows with love for her. It should feel weird feeling this strongly about her, but it doesn’t. It just feels right.

Oh, so right.

“We have realized we were made for each other, and I think I speak for both of us when I say we are desperately in love. Mia is my greatest treasure, and you’re right, she is more precious than anything else on this earth.” I kiss the top of her head, then the tip of her cute little nose, and then her soft, trembling lips. “I love you, Mia.”

“I love you too, Luke.” She lets out a dreamy little breath. “Oh, Grandma.” Mia’s voice softens. “Thank you.”

“You can thank me when you get married and give me plenty of great-grandbabies.”

“Grandma!” Mia says, laughing.

“What? A woman can wish, can’t she?” Her grandma laughs, and I lean over and whisper into Mia’s ear, “Do you think your grandma would still be laughing if I told her I very much wanted to impregnate you?” I tug on her earlobe. “The thought of making you pregnant fills me with joy. We can even practice right now.”

“Luke.” Mia blushes and grabs my bicep. “What if they hear you?”

“What?” I smile at her innocently. “Shall I tell them I want us to go and practice right now?”

“Luke.”

“Excuse me, everyone, but I need to get Mia naked so she can ride my cock and have the best orgasm of her life … again.”

“What did you say, Luke?” Bitsy asks. “We didn’t hear you.”

“Nothing, Grandma.”

“Oh, are you sure?”

“Yes.” I bite down on my lip. “Please do not go and tell all the Bees what is going on just yet, okay.”

“As if we would do that,” my grandma says, and we all start laughing at the irony of her comment. She was most probably already texting them.

“So, remember, a storm is coming. You guys should get back to the hotel. Don’t go to Hidden Cove. At least not until the storm passes,” Lucille says.

“Okay, we won’t,” I say. The real truth is, all I want right now is Mia naked, sitting on top of me.

“Oh, and can you both do me a favor and call your friends and tell them that the wedding is off. We’re still going to have a large party, and everyone can celebrate because it’s already been paid for. But it will just be a celebration of love in general. However, if you both … well, if you two decide you want to get married?—”

“No, Grandma.” I cut her off. As much as I would love to marry Mia, I’m not doing it at Rex’s cursed event.

“Fine, fine, fine. We’ll just have fun. So, Mia, you’ll let your friends know that they’re still to come, but we’ll be celebrating something else.”

“Okay, I will let them all know. I’m sure they won’t be shocked.”

“Great. Well, we’ll see you two love birds later.” We hang up the phone and look at each other, mirth and shock on our faces. Though I know neither one of us is mad. I know that I, for one, am extremely grateful.

“Can you believe that?” she says in awe. “Our grandparents set us up.”

“I don’t know how I feel about this. I’m ecstatic, but I am in shock. I feel kind of bad now that I talked shit about Rex and his notes, seeing as he never wrote them.”

“No, it was deserved,” she says. “He must’ve thought I was absolutely crazy because he had no idea what I was talking about when it came to the notes, but he was a jerk in so many other ways.”