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“Don’t be. She signed the papers.”
I turn in his arms. “She did?”
“Yes. She seemed… sorry. I’d almost feel bad for her if it weren’t my beaten down heart she stomped on. Then again, she was always good at giving me the wrong signals. The good part is, she’s out of my life now. I can move on. We can move on, if you’d like to.”
I cup his face, planting a light kiss on his lips. “I love you, Gray.” The words slip out before I can stop them. I can’t help myself. I want him to know.
He looks momentarily surprised. “I…” He stops.
“You don’t have to say it back. It’s a lot to unpack. I’ve been holding back for a while now, but I feel if I don’t let you know how I really feel, then you’ll never know, and I always want to be transparent with you…” I’m rambling but he needs to know.
He holds my chin. “No, Hart. That’s perfect. You’re perfect. I… I love you, too. I think I have since the moment I laid eyes on you. When I got back home, you were all I could think about. It was driving me nuts that I couldn’t see you,” he says. “I didn’t want to drag you into my mess. That’s the honest truth. Having that kind of baggage hanging over me isn’t fair to anyone else. Why would anyone want that? I wanted my divorce to be over before I came to find you.”
“Gray. Your sister is right about the universe; clearly, it wanted us to be together. Look at all the circumstances; they were all out of our control, and yet, here we are.”
It’s his turn to press a kiss to my lips now. It’s soft and gentle and full of so much promise.
“I’m so fucking glad this is over,” he mutters against my lips.
“Me too. Now you can rest easy. Move on. Was getting closure all that bad?” I want to ask him what she said, but I also don’t want to ruin his good mood.
“If you consider her propositioning me for one last time.”
“She didn’t?”
He laughs without humor. “The nerve of this woman is what gets to me. Acting as if jumping into bed with me can erase the past. Like I’ll forget she’s a liar and a cheat. She makes me physically sick.”
I stroke a hand down his face and suddenly, I’m being pushed onto my back.
“I don’t like you sleeping with so many clothes on,” he tells me. It’s then I realize he’s buck naked. I have pajama pants on and one of Gray’s t-shirts. There’s something about guys’ shirts that’s perfect for sleeping in.
“I’m sure you know how to take them off.”
He smirks, reaching down as I lift my hips and he swipes them down my legs. I kick them off and rip the t-shirt over my head. He glances down at my body. “You’re so fucking beautiful, Hartley Chambers. I’m going to make love to you tonight because you’re mine.”
“I am yours.”
He kisses my mouth. My jaw. My chin. My decolletage. Working his way down my body as I melt into the mattress and soft pillows. “Do you like being woken up like this, baby?”
“I love it,” I whisper, my hands fisting his hair as he takes a nipple into his mouth and sucks.
His hand reaches between my legs, and I groan as he cups me. “I’ve fucking missed you tonight, Hart.”
“I missed you too. It killed me thinking about you with her. I wanted to come and scratch her eyes out, like all girlfriends should.”
He chuckles, spreading my knees apart so they fold onto the mattress.
I revel in his body and how it moves. Every single muscle is on display for me. His cock hangs heavily between his legs as I feel it prod against my thigh.
But he keeps moving lower. Finally, he’s between my legs and he goes to town, working my clit rapidly as I fall back into the pillows, moaning as I keep my hands in his hair.
It feels different now. Everything has changed.
Everything feels so much more intense.
I love him.
He loves me.
