Trent
I walked through the grand lobby of my hotel, smiling and nodding at the guests. The doorman opened the door for me, and my car was waiting. I got into the backseat, still smiling and looking like the well put together man I was supposed to be.
“Home, sir?” Bentley asked from the driver’s seat.
“Yes, please,” I murmured, rubbing my right knee. The damn thing had been acting up again. I hated letting anyone know I was in pain.
“Doing those exercises?” Bentley asked, his eyes meeting mine in the mirror.
I considered lying but knew he would know better. “No.”
He shook his head. “Man, you know you need to do the exercises.”
“I know. I will. It’s just been kind of a busy few weeks.”
I hated complaining to someone like Bentley. I rubbed the knee again before leaning back against the headrest. I looked out the window, watching the tourists roll their luggage, wrangle kids, and take pictures, all at the same time. I liked living in a town where people loved to visit. It made me feel lucky to be alive.
With the choice to live anywhere I wanted, I chose Lake Tahoe. I made it my home, and I hoped, through the businesses I was running, I could make it a little better place for people to visit and the people that lived there.
The car pulled through the gated entry, driving past the palm trees lining the circular driveway to my house on the lake. He parked and jumped out, running around to open my back door.
I shook my head as I got out. “I’ve told you I hate when you do that.”
He grinned, giving me a wink. “Which is exactly why I do it, Guvnor,” he said in a horrible British accent.
I used my left hand to shake his left hand—his only hand. The prosthetic right hand looked real enough and functioned well enough, but he’d told me long ago, he wanted a real handshake, and that meant using our left hands. It worked for me.
“I’ll see you in the morning,” I said and headed up the walk.
I walked inside and waited for it. It took about ten seconds before I heard the nails on the marble floors. “Come here girl!” I shouted, knowing she was making her way to the foyer via the doggie door.
She rounded the corner in a full gallop. Her ears bounced and her tongue lolled to the side as she ran. I dropped to my knees, waiting for her to maul me with her tongue. The beautiful brown boxer leaped at me, nearly knocking me on my back with all of her eighty pounds.
“Hey girl, how’s my sweet girl?” I asked, rubbing her ears and happily accepting her exuberant kisses over my cheeks, eyes, nose, and wherever else her tongue could reach.
She barked once. In my mind, she was talking to me. I gave her a good belly rub as she rolled to her back. “Good girl, Leia. Did you have a good day?”
I spent a few minutes with her before very slowly getting back on my feet and heading into the kitchen. I was hungry but had no inclination to go out anywhere. I knew I should go out, shake hands, advertise the hotel, and be a man about town, but I really liked being home.
Richie couldn’t understand it, but I liked the peacefulness of sitting on the patio with my dog, watching the gorgeous sunsets. I didn’t need noise. I’d had enough noise in my lifetime.
Richie was the type who liked chaos and noise and people. I used to before I joined the Army. The Army changed me. It was why I’d joined. I needed the changing. That was for damn sure. I pushed the thoughts to the back of my mind. I didn’t like revisiting those years any more than necessary.
“Should we order some dinner?” I asked Leia, who was walking alongside me.
Her answer was to wag her tiny cropped tail. I pulled out my phone, hit my food app, and quickly scanned through the regular options.
“Chinese, it is,” I said, quickly pushing the buttons to order before putting the phone on the counter and grabbing a cold Heineken from the fridge.
Leia knew the drill. She ran through her doggie door and was waiting for me on the patio. I sat down in one of the deck chairs and looked at her. Her tongue was hanging with what could only be described as a smile on her face as she waited for me to give her the go ahead.
“All right, up,” I said.
She leaped into the chair beside me and turned around a couple of times before dropping down on the nominal free space in the chair. She was the biggest lap dog.
I rested my head against the chair, staring out at the water. I idly rubbed her head with one hand, the beer in the other. It was my idea of a good time. I didn’t need the clubs or the women. I just needed a good woman, who happened to love dogs and appreciated a quiet night with nothing more than the lapping of the lake for music.
I reasoned it was wise to stay in for the night. There would be plenty of late nights ahead as I worked the crowds over the coming months. I needed to recharge. I had been working around the clock for over a month getting everything ready, crossing all the t’s and dotting all the i’s. There was no room for error.
I wanted everything to be perfect, not just because it was good business, but because I wanted people to have a good time. They were spending their hard-earned money at my hotel. It gave me a great deal of pride to know they chose my place over all the others.
Or my place was the only one they could get a reservation at. Either way, I wanted them to keep coming back.
I wanted them to look back on the vacation to Tahoe and think it was better because of where they had stayed.
TrentKhloe approached us. “Too much?” she asked.Sade wiped a tear from her eye. “I love you. You are amazing. Thank you.”I nodded. “Yes, thank you. This is absolutely stunning. I could have never imagined it could look like this. Truly, thank you.”“The photographer was in earlier,” she said. “The one for the brochure.” “Perfect, thanks,” I said still in disbelief.“I think you two are supposed to be heading to the front for your little introduction,” she said, shooing us away.We spent the next two hours dancing and mingling with our guests. Justin approached me at one point and asked to talk with me in private. I was immediately on guard.“What’s going on?” I asked him in the hall outside the ballroom.“I wasn’t thrilled that the two of you ran off and got married without a word to anyone,” he started.“I’m really sorry about that.”“I know you are. I want to thank you for taking such good care of my little girl. I couldn’t have asked for a better son-in-law. Welcome to the fami
TrentI wasn’t the least bit nervous. I chalked it up to being an experienced groom. If other couples knew how much easier and how less stressful it was to have the wedding a couple of months after being married, everyone would do it. I didn’t have any wedding day jitters, and I wasn’t worried the family would hate me or the bride would be a wreck.It was easy-peasy. Sade and I had opted to stay apart last night just to make the day a little more special. Her mother had insisted on it, and I was happy to go along with the plan.I had yet to see Sade’s dress. She refused to give me any details about it and often teased it was a red dress. I told her to wear whatever she wanted, but I was secretly hoping for something traditional.I walked into position in front of the archway, which was actually a pergola covered in lush green ferns at the English Garden in Wolf Lakes Park. Sade and I had searched for the perfect place to hold the ceremony. It had taken Khloe’s very impressive negotiat
SadeI didn’t have to ask where he wanted me to go. My body responded just as he demanded. I moaned, loud and low in my throat as the orgasm flooded my body. I jerked and spasmed against him, my hips grinding against his hand as he held me close.He stepped back and gently turned me to face the bed. The damn thing was so high, it hit me about mid-thigh. I moved to lift my leg to climb on the bed when he stopped me.“Lie across the bed,” he ordered, his voice thick with desire.I did as he said, lying face down on the bed, my feet on the floor, my ass exposed. His hands caressed over both cheeks before he slid one hand between my thighs. I felt the finger part my swollen folds and held my breath, waiting for that first penetration.When his finger slid inside me, I moaned with pleasure. He pulled the finger out and replaced it with his swollen cock. He slid in slowly, one hand on my back and the other holding my hip. I didn’t want to move. Everything felt so good.I could feel the hair
SadeI said my goodbyes to Khloe and Holly and went in search of Trent. I checked the back patio where I had seen him last. He wasn’t there. I drifted down the hall and spotted him in his office, sitting at his desk. He looked a little tired, but I hoped he wasn’t too tired. I had plans for him and his body.“Hey, husband of mine,” I said, startling him.He looked up from the laptop and smiled. “Hey, wife of mine.”“So, the house is empty. We’re alone, like really alone, for the first time in our new house with that big ol’ bed. Why aren’t we naked?”He grinned and closed the laptop. He got up from his chair and made his way toward me. His limp was noticeable as he moved. I imagined the strain of the day was catching up to him. I didn’t dare offer to wait until he was feeling better or comment on the knee at all. He didn’t need me reminding him of his injury.He reached for me, yanking my hips against his lower body, and kissed me soundly. I kissed him back, giving him all I had. My t
TrentI burst into laughter. “No!”Khloe nodded. “Yes. Me and the saleswoman had to talk him out of it.”“It wasn’t a real bear,” I protested.“All the same, it was ugly and just looked scary,” Khloe said.“I’m glad you opted for the other one,” Sade said.“Me too,” I agreed.Leia came bounding in through the doggy door I had put in for her. Her tongue lolled out of her mouth, and she had a huge smile on her face. She loved the backyard. I gave her a piece of pizza crust, which she eagerly chomped down and waited for more. After we had stuffed our faces with as much pizza as we could take, I went outside with Leia to check out the new deck furniture.The ladies joined me, marveling at the view and the massive backyard.“When did this get here?” Sade asked, looking at the furniture and the table set.I grimaced. “Yesterday.”She burst into laughter. “You’re dangerous with a credit card and a computer.”I held up a hand. “Technically, this was on Khloe.”Sade spun around. “What? You did
TrentI was humming with energy. I had never been so damn excited in all my life. In my eyes, it was the first day of the rest of my life. Sure, I had plenty of those first days, but now it was really the first day. It was going to be the first day in our new house with all of our new things and our new marriage. It was like I had been waiting my entire life for this one day to happen.Now that it was finally here, I could hardly contain my excitement. I had kept poor Sade up until two o’clock packing. We’d called in reinforcements. Holly and Khloe were both carrying boxes to load into the three waiting cars.“Are you sure I can’t hire a rental truck?” I complained.“No, I don’t have anything that big,” Sade said again. “It’s just boxes. It will be faster to load everything in the cars and make one trip.”I wanted to whine and complain that it wasn’t going fast enough. Unfortunately, my leg had been acting up, and walking up and down the stairs proved to be too much.“I can hire mover