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“Don’t close your eyes. Look at me. See me.”
“Gina,” he whispered. “All I ever see is you.”
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All I ever see is you.
The words hung between them, beautiful and infinitely sweet. Gina’s throat closed; she wasn’t sure she could speak.
She was poised on the rim of orgasm, and if the quiver in his arms, his belly, the part of him buried deep within, was any indication, so was he.
She rocked her hips, hoping to send them over the edge, and while the slow slip and slide was magnificent, they both seemed to be waiting for something more.
Gina touched his face. She reached up to kiss him, and the words tumbled out: “I love you.”
He didn’t answer, merely tilted his head and waited for her to come to terms with it—either take the statement back as a mistake, uttered in the heat of the strongest passion she’d ever known, or admit it was a truth she’d kept locked in her heart.
“I do love you,” she repeated with some amazement. “I wasn’t sure.”
“I was.” He thrust once. She couldn’t breathe. “I am.” A second time. His gaze bored into hers. “I always…” Three. “Always.” Four. “Will be.”
“Yes,” she whispered. “Always.”
Those declarations were what had been missing. The next instant they were coming together, falling apart, holding on as the storm washed over them and then away.
His head fell forward until it rested against hers, his hair shrouding them both from the dying rays of the moon. She ran her hand over his back, let her palm rest at the base of his spine, enjoying the sensation of his still being inside of her.
“Don’t move,” she whispered.
“I can’t,” he returned, and their laughter mingled along with their breath.
They had one more instant of peace, and then, somewhere in the house, someone screamed.
CHAPTER 21
Gina was never certain if she threw Teo off the bed or he rolled over so fast he fell. Either way, he landed on his ass on the floor.
The screams continued. The two of them dived for their clothes, shoving their bare feet through the legs of their sweatpants in such a hurry they didn’t realize—
“Shit.” Gina dropped the much too large garment to the ground, even as Teo cursed when her much too small pair got stuck at his knees. They tossed each other their respective pants as earsplitting shrieks threatened to puncture their eardrums.
Shoving her head and arms through her T-shirt, Gina followed him to the door, then rammed into his back when he tried to open it, forgot it was locked, and got nowhere.
As they ran down the stairs in the wake of everyone else, the screams suddenly stopped. Gina’s ears continued to ring.
The guests all crowded into the kitchen, staring at a hysterical Amberleigh being soothed by Fanny as Isaac stood in the open doorway with his gun.
Gina pushed her way through the crowd. “What happened?”
Amberleigh took several gulping gasps, opened her mouth, and began to sob at nearly the same volume she’d shrieked.
“Sheesh,” Derek muttered. “She’s loud.”
Melda scurried forward and folded the girl into her arms, urging her out of the room, away from the door that Amberleigh kept staring at as if it might sprout teeth and bite her, then into the dining room.
At least the old woman seemed more herself today. For that matter, so did Amberleigh. Loud really was her thing.
“Should that door be open?” Gina asked.
