Folding Hearts (Mitchell Family #2)(41)
Author: Jennifer Foor

We got outside and she finally turned around to face me. “Ty lies Miranda. I just want you to know that before you get your heart ripped apart. You are one of my best friends and soon to be cousin. I would hate to see you hurt.”

She handed me Bella’s seat and got into her car. “Are you going to tell on us?”

“Honestly, I wish I didn’t know. I won’t say anything.”

“See you tomorrow.” I watched her pull away, but her words haunted me. It took me forever to walk back into the house. I didn’t want to doubt Ty, but maybe I was being a fool for thinking I could have a perfect life.

Chapter 22

Tyler

Of all the people in the whole f**king world, Van had to be the one to ruin my perfectly planned night with Miranda. To make matters worse, Miranda came back into the house like she had been slapped in the face.

“What happened?”

She shook her head and started cleaning up the mess in the kitchen. “It’s nothin’.”

I grabbed her and pulled her to face me. “What did she say to you baby?”

She wouldn’t look at me.

“Please talk to me,” I begged.

“Let’s just say that she warned me about you. She doesn’t think I should believe everything you tell me.” When she finally looked up I could tell she was crying.

“I don’t lie to you Miranda. I swear that I love you and I have never thought about being with anyone else. You are all that I want. I will spend the rest of my life proving it to you if I have to.”

She studied my face. “The rest of your life?”

I put my head against hers. “I don’t f**king care what anyone else thinks about me. I am madly in love with you. I only want you. Our relationship is nothing like mine and Vans, you know that.”

She finally wrapped her arms around me and I let out a sigh. “I love you too. I don’t want to doubt you. She has her reasons for not believing you have changed.”

“You changed me. You and Izzy. Do you really think I would risk losing this?”

She shrugged. She f**king shrugged. I let my arms drop and walked into the bedroom. After finding my phone in the pocket of my pants I handed it to her. “Just to start my lifetime of proving that you are all that I need, here is my phone. Take it. Keep it for as long as you want. Go through it. I deleted every girl’s number the first night after we had sex. I haven’t been on Facebook for months, but I will give you that password and you can delete anyone you want. I don’t care if you delete the account. I have nothing to hide from you. The only secret that I ever had was that I wanted you and fell in love with you. I swear.”

“Do you still have feelings for Van?” As much as I didn’t want her to ask that, I knew it was coming. I deserved to be asked, after all, she was the one who had listened to me cry over her months ago.

I pulled her onto my lap on the couch. “I love three women. My mother, Izzy and you. Van is marrying my cousin and we grew up together. She was my first and I will always care about her, although right now I am pretty pissed off at her.”

Miranda ran her hand over my face. “I have never felt this way and it scares me. It would kill me if I lost you. It would kill Bella.”

“Baby, you aren’t going to lose me. I swear to God that you are all that I ever want. Can’t you just see how much I need you?” I held her so tight. She really was my everything. There had to be a way to convince her how serious I was. A way to prove to everyone that this wasn’t temporary.

I knew exactly what I needed to do, but I would need my mother’s help again. Miranda finally calmed down and we watched a movie before heading to bed. Our night had been so perfect. What was it with people just walking in my door? All of this could have been avoided.

I was so happy once I got the bed cleaned off and Miranda climbed into my arms. I needed to feel her there, especially now that she was having doubts about me. If I could take anything back about my past it would be that I cheated. Then again, if I hadn’t I would have never been able to be with Miranda now. It all happened to get me exactly where I needed to be.

With Van being a ticking bomb, it was only a matter of time before Colt and Conner came beating down my door forcing her to go home. I wasn’t about to let that happen. I needed to make sure there was no way they could keep us apart.

Miranda woke up in a much better mood. She showered me with kisses and talked me into getting a very long shower with her. There was no way I could resist a naked Miranda. I washed her hair and then every single inch of her body. As I lathered up her br**sts she began stroking my dick with her hand. She teased me with her tongue, not letting me kiss her lips. It turned me on and she knew it. She pushed me back against the shower wall, before turning around and sticking her ass against my erection. To have a girl that offered doggy-style was like getting a diamond in a Cracker Jack box. As I thrusted myself inside of her, she put her hands up on the opposite shower wall and pushed against me. The friction from the water combined with how wet she already was enabled me to hit it faster than usual. I grabbed her wet hair and heard her moaning and lost it. The visual of me behind her was burned into my head for the rest of the day and I think she knew it would be.

My mother had gotten up and made breakfast, so Van picked Miranda up for dress shopping while we were all still over there. Van and my mother spoke for only a few seconds. I did notice that my mother purposely hugged and kissed Miranda in front of Van. It was spiteful, but maybe in some way my mother knew that Van would spend the day filling Miranda with doubt. I walked outside with them and kissed Miranda like we were back in the shower. When she pulled away she patted the crotch of my pants. She knew it was good, hell she knew she was that good.

Once I watched them pull away, I sat back down with my mother. She knew things were about to get serious and gave me all of her attention. My dad took Izzy and headed outside to collect eggs. She loved chasing those chickens around.

“What’s the matter?” She asked.

“Van walked in on us last night. It didn’t go over very well.”

“Well you don’t want her back do you?”

I scrunched up my face. “Hell no, Mom. She got Miranda all upset, telling her that I couldn’t be trusted and that I would eventually cheat.”

“If she spent half a second with you two, she would know how crazy you are about each other.”

I grabbed my mother’s hands. “Mom, I need your help and your blessing.”