“Wouldn’t miss it. You?”

“Are you kidding? Jenna would kill me if I wasn’t there for the game. It’s a big family day for the Rileys.”

“I think we’re gonna have a lot of big Riley days coming up in the next few weeks,” Mick said.

Ty grinned. “Yeah. Seems that way.”

“Are you excited?” Cole asked.

“You know, I didn’t think I’d be. I mean, Jenna and I wanted this to be low-key, but it didn’t quite work out that way.”

“I know how that is. Liz and I were the same way,” Gavin said. We were going to have a small thing, which turned into a big thing because. . . well, my mom wanted a big wedding, and then Liz decided maybe just having a small wedding wasn’t going to work. Suddenly it was this huge affair. Can’t blame that all on the parents, though. Weddings seem to take on a life of their own.”

Ty laughed. “Yeah. It is becoming kind of an event, and I can’t say I’m all that disappointed about it. Despite Jenna not wanting to make a big deal out of the wedding, I know secretly she’s pretty excited about having the family all together to celebrate us getting married. I don’t think she would have really been happy if we’d eloped or gotten married at city hall.”

Gavin nodded and took a long pull of the beer Renee had set down in front of him. “I know what you mean. Liz was never about the big wedding. Until it came time to plan the big wedding. Then she became driven, like planning a wedding had been the one and only thing she’d dreamed about doing since she was a little girl.”

“Women, right?”

“Yeah. Can’t figure them out. Don’t even try. Just go with it.”

“That’s what I do, man. I just try and keep her happy. If she’s happy, then I’m happy.”

Gavin tipped his beer against Ty’s. “Amen to that.”

The conversation reverted back to Cole and Mick’s heavily testosterone-laden one-upmanship over who was going to beat whom. In the end, the two of them just ended up laughing and toasted each other, then they got down to the business of eating burgers, until they got on the topic of the wedding again, which put Ty on the hot seat for making them all wear tuxes.

Ty didn’t take the bait. Instead, he chewed a mouthful of cheeseburger and swallowed. “Not my fault. Talk to Jenna. I would have been happy in jeans.”

“You’d throw your fiancée—my sweet baby sister—under the bus like that?” Mick asked.

Ty reached for his beer. “Yup.”

“Wait ’til I tell her,” Gavin said.

“Go for it,” Ty said with a shrug. “She’ll back me up.”

Cole slapped Ty on the back. “That’s what I like about you. No fear.”

Mick took off after lunch to do some football-related thing. And Cole had to leave for the airport to pick up Savannah.

“Has she been out of town again?” Gavin asked.

“Yeah. She’s been doing a consulting thing for a client in Chicago for the past couple weeks.”

“Rough on both of you with all the travel, isn’t it?”

“We manage. At least the homecomings are hot.” Cole waggled his brows.

Tyler laughed. “Speaking of hot fiancées, I need to go see mine. We have . . . God forbid, wedding stuff that I promised to discuss with her. Thanks for meeting with me today, guys.”

They all took off. Gavin headed home, figuring Liz would be out doing some of that wedding stuff, too.

So he was surprised to see her car in the garage when he pulled in.

“Liz?” he called when he walked through the door.

She didn’t answer. He looked for her downstairs, but didn’t find her, so he headed upstairs. It was already getting dark outside, and cloudy, as he looked out the window in the landing.

There was a light on in their bedroom, so he pushed the door open.

And his jaw dropped.

Liz was on the bed, the only light in the room from candles lit on the nightstands. She was dressed in some silky, flimsy thing that rode high on her thighs and barely covered her breasts.

He went hard in an instant.

“Did we have a date I didn’t know about?” he asked as he entered the room.

She was reclining on her side, her head resting on her hand. “No, but we were interrupted this morning. I thought we could finish what we started.”

She patted the bed.

“Hell, yes.”

As he walked toward the bed, he kicked off his shoes and pulled his shirt over his head. Liz sat up and crawled toward the end of the bed, her breasts nearly visible as she bent over.

“I like whatever it is you’re wearing. Or almost not wearing.”

She tilted her head back and gave him one hell of a sexy smile. “I bought it to tease you with.”

While she unzipped his pants, he drew one of her straps down. “You aren’t going to be wearing it long.”

She sat on her heels. “That’s the idea.”

He shucked his jeans and underwear, his cock springing right into her hands. “Now, this is about where we were this morning, weren’t we?”

Her hands were warm, her mouth inches away from giving him exactly what he’d spent the day thinking about. “I’ve been aching for your mouth on me all day.”

“Is that right?” She fell forward onto her stomach, that slinky little thing she wore creeping up over her shapely ass, revealing that she had . . . absolutely nothing on underneath it.

His cock twitched and he surged forward, thrusting it into her hands.

“A little eager, are you?”

He looked down at her. “You know it. Now suck me.”

“I get all tingly when you give me orders.” She put her beautiful lips around his cock head, at the same time her tongue wound around him. Then she drew him into the sweet heat of her mouth, inch by slow, torturous inch, deliberately prolonging his pleasure.

“Aw, babe, that’s so good.” He bent forward and lifted the shift she wore, revealing the globes of her ass. He smoothed his hand over her flesh, parting it with his fingers so he could get to her pussy.

She was wet, and he slid his fingers into her at the same time she engulfed him, taking him deep.

“Fuck,” he whispered, closing his eyes as she sucked him. “You’re so good at that.”

Her answering hum around his cock made his balls tighten. And when she withdrew, his cock wet from her mouth, it was all he could do not to shove back into the sweet warm cavern and come down her throat. But he wanted to explore her body. She’d gone to all the trouble of the candles and wearing that outfit that was driving him crazy. He wanted to be inside her, drawing her close, inhaling her scent and pumping into her. That’s where he wanted to come.

So he pulled her up to her knees, drew her body against his, and kissed her, sweeping his hands over her curves and enjoying the feel of her breasts against his chest. Even after more than a year of marriage, Liz hit his hot buttons. She turned him on with an animal passion that still surprised him. He could never seem to get enough of her, and now that baseball season was over and he was home on a regular basis, he could indulge in his need for her.

He pushed her onto her back on the bed.

“Anxious?” she asked, her voice a husky, teasing caress.

“Yeah.” He spread her legs and eased his cock into her, watching her face as he entered her. One thing he’d always loved about Liz was the way she enjoyed sex—no-holds-barred, always fully into it. She loved making love with him as much as he enjoyed being with her. And as she arched her hips and took him inside, he knew once again that he’d found the perfect woman for him.

He grasped her hips and pulled her down on his cock, listening to the sounds of her breathing, the moans and whimpers she made as he pumped into her. That silk riding over her hips drove him crazy, so he leaned over her, pulled the straps down and took one of her nipples into his mouth, sucking it as he fucked her.

“Yes,” she whispered against him. “Harder.”

He gave her what she asked for, both with his mouth and with his cock. Her pussy squeezed his dick, making him fight for control.

“Kiss me,” she said, and he moved up to take her mouth.

She sucked his tongue, making him groan and plunge his cock deeper. Liz moaned, writhing underneath him.

“That’s going to make me come,” she said.

He lifted up, met her gaze, and ground against her, giving her what she needed—a slow, hard deep movement that made her eyes widen.

And when she came, she raked her nails down his arms and shuddered against him. Unable to hold back, he went with her, his orgasm rocking his world and stealing his breath, like it always did.

Liz wrapped her legs around him and held him there while they both settled from the aftermath. She smoothed her hands down his arms, pressing a kiss and a love bite to his shoulder.

“That was a great way to end the day,” he said.

“I’m glad you enjoyed it. I sure did.”

He rolled to his side, bringing Liz with him. She shivered, so he pulled up the blankets and they lay there. He hadn’t been much of an after-sex cuddler before Liz came into his life, but now he enjoyed holding her in his arms, listening to her breathe.

“I took a pregnancy test this morning,” she said.

He stilled. “And?”

“Negative.”

He heard the flat tone of her voice. She tried to be nonchalant about it, but he knew how much it hurt her, how much she wanted to have a baby. He wanted to have one with her, so he kept the disappointment out of his voice. “It’s okay, babe. We’ll keep trying.”

She sighed. “Yes, we will.”

This was such a touchy subject, and Gavin never knew how to approach it. “It’s going to happen.”

She sat up in bed and leaned against the pillows. “I know it will. I’m determined.”