Free Better Unwed Than Dead by Laura Rosemont

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    “I hope today is just a hint of what’s to
come this summer.” Julia Ellery spread a red and white checked
cloth over a broad expanse of sun warmed stone. Kicking off her
flip-flops, she lay on her back and stretched her arms over her
head, flexing sun starved calves. “Winter never wanted to let go. I
was ready to suggest we move to Georgia and live with your mom and
aunt. But now I’m glad we’re right here, because right here is
perfect.”
    Nick Brice, love of her life, set the picnic
basket down and stretching out beside her, propping his head on his
elbow. He nodded in agreement. It was a warm, picturesque June day
on Ohio’s Lake Erie coast. Marblehead Lighthouse towered just over
their shoulders in a white, fifty-foot column. Distant coaster
trains climbed and plummeted across the bay at Cedar Point. Cotton
puff clouds dotted an endless blue sky and boats slid across
Sandusky Bay with such lazy leisure that even their very masts and
sails must have known that ninety glorious days lay ahead.
    “Mmm, right here is perfect. You ready to
eat?” He reached for the basket, filled with grapes, cheese and
French bread, as well as the finest Lake Erie’s wineries could
offer, smuggled into Marblehead Lighthouse State Park in a discreet
thermos.
    “Not yet.” Julia closed her eyes and yawned
as a whip of wind kicked waves across the bay, sending a refreshing
spray over the jutting rock shelf she’d claimed as theirs. “I want
to just sprawl here and enjoy the sunshine for a while. It feels so
good.”
    Nick abandoned his pursuit of the picnic
basket to admire his girlfriend. Between owning and operating
Peninsula Gifts and helping care for her elderly, senile mother—her
last living relative—she was always on the go. He enjoyed seeing
her enjoy a rare, quiet moment. As a middle school teacher, he had
the whole summer to enjoy such moments, but for Julia they were
harder to come by, no matter how much he tried to help.
    He watched passively as one spaghetti strap
slipped from her pale shoulder and the breeze repositioned the hem
of her short red sundress an inch higher on her thigh. But when,
with eyes shut, Julia pulled her chestnut hair free of its ponytail
and fanned it around her head, Nick knew it would take a man with
far more willpower to simply let her be. He cupped his palm over
her knee and slowly slid along her thigh, pleased when his touch
elicited a slight sigh from her lips. “We can see Millennium Force
from here,” Nick commented, referring to the 310-foot tall roller
coaster dominating the landscape across the bay.
    “You can see Millennium from damn near
everywhere,” Julia pointed out, catching his hand before it could
venture so far up her thigh as to expose her panties.
    “No one can see us,” Nick promised. “No boats
are close enough, and for now we’ve got this side of the park to
ourselves. Don’t worry. I’m keeping an eye out.”
    Julia lifted her head and peeked around. Sure
enough, the sailboats that had been drawing nearer were now farther
off and the man fishing off the rocky ledge nearby had moved on.
Shutting her eyes again with a slight smile, she let Nick’s hand
continue on its naughty path.
    “Do you remember when I took you to Cedar
Point last August?” His fingers darted beneath the edge of her
panties, brushing her dampening labia. Julia’s breath caught and
she nodded with a small gulp and lick of her lips. Nick leaned in
to taste the moisture left by her tongue, his body aligning closer
so she could feel his firm erection through his jeans. “At