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“I know. I feel exactly the same.”
He shut off the water, grabbing us both a towel. I wrapped mine around myself, watching while he did the same, and we padded out of the bathroom and up the stairs to his bedroom.
I found my underwear in my bag, pulling it out, and turned to find him staring at me.
“Do you want to come to my place tonight?” I asked. “We can just sleep together, if you want. We don’t have to do anything.”
He walked up to me, taking my bra and panties from my hand and throwing them onto the bed.
“Yeah, we do. I’m sure I’ll be fine by tonight.”
“I’m sure you will, too. But I don’t want you to feel we always have to make love. We don’t.”
“I know. But the thing is, Nash will be here tomorrow night…”
“Oh…” My heart sank. “So I won’t be able to see you.”
“Yes, you will. The whole point of telling him is so we don’t have to spend any time apart.”
“Then I don’t see what the problem is.”
“It’s simple. If Nash is sleeping downstairs, we won’t be able to have loud sex up here, or in the shower, or on the stairs, or in the kitchen.”
“Oh. I see what you mean.” I moved closer, letting my towel drop to the floor. “You’re saying we need to make the most of tonight?”
“We do. Although I’m tempted to make the most of you right now.”
“I thought you said you were worn out?”
“I was wrong.”
I giggled, and he spun me around and threw me down on the bed, making me squeal with delight.
“Thank you for such a special morning,” Tanner says, kissing me for about the fifth time. We’re standing on his back doorstep, and I’ve been trying to leave for the last ten minutes. He pulls back, gazing into my eyes. “You’re my world, Zara.” I open my mouth to contradict him, to remind him of his son, but he puts his fingertip over my mouth, stopping me. “I know what you’re going to say, and I haven’t forgotten Nash. That would be impossible,” he says, brushing his thumb along my lips, holding it at the corner, my face clasped in his hands. “But the thing is, without you, everything else would be dulled. None of it would mean as much as it does, knowing you’re here.”
I lean forward, and he twists his fingers through my hair, his hands resting on the back of my head as I nestle against his chest, my arms coming around his waist.
He holds me tight against him, and I listen to his heartbeat, relishing the strength of the man I love, although I have to pull away eventually, time getting the better of me. It’s a workday, after all.
“I’ll come over later, shall I?” he asks and I look up at him.
“Okay.”
He kisses me again, then leans back. “You’d better go, or you’ll be late.”
We part reluctantly, holding hands until we can’t any longer, and even as I walk away, he stands, staring at me. When I reach the end of the track, he disappears from sight, and I pick up my pace, rushing home to drop off my bag, and then practically running to work.
Everything’s going so well, although I know it could come crumbling down tomorrow night when Nash finds out about us. I don’t want to think about what Tanner might be forced to do if Nash isn’t happy about me and his father being together.
Whatever he’s just said, I know he’ll choose his son. It’s the right thing to do… but I can’t bear the thought of a life without him, even though I’ve only known him for a few days. Like he said earlier, it’s as though we’ve always been here… right where we are now. And I don’t want that to change.
I arrive at school before the children, but only just, and I enter the teachers’ lounge a little out of breath. Margot looks up, giving me a smile.
“I’m here before you for once.”
“I overslept,” I say, and she nods her head, waiting for me to stash my purse in my locker before we go out into the corridor and along to the classroom.
Alexander hasn’t been in all week, and I’ll admit there’s a part of me hoping his mother will keep him off until after the weekend. I’m not in the mood for him today.
