“Aimee, what are you talking about? How do you know this?”
“Derrick told his cousin he and Sophie had sex after they broke up when she went to pick up her things, and she got pregnant because they didn’t use protection! Derrick confronted her, and she admitted it to him, but then slapped him with a confidentiality agreement and a payout to keep his mouth shut and sign away his rights to the baby.” She explains, and I gape at her in utter shock. “That stupid bitch Sophie’s been lying to trap Cole and force him to marry her.” I felt paralysed; my feet felt like led. “Shayla, what are you waiting for? GO TELL COLE!” She screams at me, and I pace back and forth. My hands and knees were shaking frantically.
“Oh, my God!” I shout my fingers in my hair. “What if I’m too late?!”
“You fucking will be if you keep standing there!” She shouts, and I look at her, still stunn
“Hi,” I frown while I look at Derrick standing in the doorway. “Can we talk?” He requests. I nod and gesture for him to come in, and he does, closing the door behind him.“What are you doing here?” I question, puzzled, leaning against the wall and watch as he paces the small room rubbing the back of his neck, seemingly troubled.“Tristan, I should have done this a long time ago. I don’t know what the fuck I was thinking, keeping it from everyone this whole time.” I straighten from my position leaning on the wall, and look at him, baffled.“Told me what, Derrick, spit it out?”Derrick sighs, “That baby isn’t yours. It’s mine.” He blurts out, and I stare at him, my hands fisted at my sides. “After Sophie broke it off with me, she came over to collect her things one night, and we got into an argument, things got pretty heated, and well, we had sex. I didn’t
While my mind was reeling, I hadn’t realised we arrived at her street. I didn’t even wait for the car to stop before I dash out and race up to her apartment, taking two steps at a time till I got to the fifth floor. I bang my fist on the door in a flurry, the door opens, and I see Aimee standing there. “Please, tell me she’s here?”Aimee shakes her head, “No, she went to the church to stop you. Didn’t you see her?” I shake my head, and a bubble of excitement erupts inside of me. “What are you waiting for idiot, GO!” Aimee shouts, pushing me out the door. I laugh, grab her face, and kiss her forehead with an audible ‘mwah’ before I run down the stairs again to go back to the church. Aimee sighs, watching me fly down the steps, a smile on her face. Gerald looks at me through the window with a frown as I run toward the car and jump in.“Sir?”“Back to the church. Hurry!”
“You’re doing what?” Cole’s parents utter at the same time. Staring at us wide-eyed.Cole and I look at one another as we sit at the dining table at his parents’ house a few days later. I press my lips together to stifle the laugh that was bubbling up inside of me at the horrified look on his mother’s face.“We’re getting married in Vegas, and we would love it if you could be there with us,” Cole tells them evenly, and his mother’s eyes almost bulge out of her head.“Vegas?” She sputters, stunned, and we nod. “Like…in the chapel? With Elvis?” I mask my chuckle with a cough, and Cole looks at me, his eyes full of mischief as the corner of his lips twitch.“Yes, mother. Vegas, the chapel, Elvis, the whole lot.” Cole tells her, and she turns her gaze to me.“Son, just so we can prepare ourselves, how many times exactly are you planning to get m
As Cole and I had expected, our reconciliation made the headlines once again. Aimee came running into my bedroom the next day with Jo hot on her heels. They threw themselves onto my bed, waking me up from a very peaceful slumber.“Bish! Wake up! You’re all over the fucking internet!” Aimee shrieks bouncing up and down on my bed. I groan and pull the covers over my head, but Jo yanks it back down and flicks my nose.“Get up, you lazy moo. You have to see this!” Jo chirps excitedly, shoving her tablet in my face. I blink and look at the photo of Cole and I kissing in the middle of the street after I jumped into his arms. I smile when my heart flutters wildly in my chest. There are various other images of me running toward the church and then Cole running out of the church. The headline at the top read:Nations Sweethearts, Tristan Hoult and Shayla Hart have Reunited!“Nation’s sweethearts?” I utter with a roll
I lick my lips slowly and lock my gaze with his as I trail my finger down the side of his face. “This may just be a pretty face to most, but it’s my seat, and you best believe I’ll be riding it till I’m crying out your name over and over again,” I tell him, and he groans throatily, swallowing hard.“By all means, hop right on...” He whispers, brushing his nose over mine. “I’m going to ravish you.” He growls impatiently while sliding his hands up my thighs under my skirt. “I’m going to fuck you so hard you won’t be able to walk straight for days.” I pucker up my lips and blow him a kiss as I pull away.“You better.” I purr with a wink as I walk to the door, deliberately swaying my hips while he watches my bum avidly.“Christ, Shayla.” He mumbles as I walk away and falls back on the bed with a frustrated sigh.Back in the kitchen, the girls and I disc
“God baby, the things I want to do to you,” Cole whispers, his voice dripping in sex while he takes my ear lobe between his teeth and runs his tongue against it teasingly, sending a mass of delicious shivers up and down my spine. I moan quietly when I feel his fingers brush up under my shirt, it was the barest of touches, but it honestly drove me crazy with need. We haven’t had sex since Dubai, and as always, the tension between us was electric, and when you throw forbidden lust to the mix, you’ve got a highly, sexually frustrated couple on your hands. “Look what you’re doing to me.” Cole groans lowly into my ear, pushing his hips into mine so I could feel his hard length.“Is it bad that I can’t look away,” Aimee whispers, her cheeks turning pink, and Josh snickers, drawing her against him and dropping a kiss on her pulse point.“Oh my God, I’m single as fuck.” Jo grumbles, stuffing gummies
“Don’t do that,” He hisses, his voice strained. “You know what it does to me when you speak to me in Spanish.”“Te quiero mucho, Papi,” I breathe teasingly, telling him I want him in Spanish while brushing my lips along his face. “Estoy loca por ti, mi amor.”“Fuck.” He moans, grinding himself against me. “Shayla, baby, please, my dick is about to burst. Either fuck me or behave.” He pleads, and I pull back.“Lo siento, mi amor.” I apologise, and Cole shakes his head and walks out of the kitchen, muttering to himself. “Hey, where are you going?” I chuckle.“To have a wank!” Cole grumbles, joking, and I throw my head back and laugh. I love teasing him so much. He’s just so adorable when he’s frustrated. I cannot wait to marry him.Everyone was so happy around us that I was terrified something awful was going to happen. I gues
After we check into our hotel rooms, Cole and I obviously weren’t allowed to share a room till our wedding night; much to his dismay, Cole was sharing a suite with Josh, and I was sharing one with the girls.My brother was due to arrive later on to join the boys for the bachelor party. I was still so upset that my Mum wasn’t going to be with me on my wedding day physically, but she’ll be there virtually so she won’t miss anything.Cole and Josh go off together to do the last-minute wedding checks while the girls and I hit the spa for a day of pampering before the bachelorette party in the evening. “Girls, I still can’t believe I’m in Vegas and Shay is getting married. It seems so surreal.” Jo says, sipping her cucumber and mint water while she snuggles into the lounger she was relaxing on with her green face mask and cucumbers on each eye.I sigh, closing my eyes while getting my manicure. “I know, I feel lik