Carter brushed the damp strands back off his forehead. “You are still the sexiest man I’ve ever seen.”
Lincoln stretched up and stole a kiss. “They’re good, better than Ginger’s but not as good as Barry’s.”
“We can make monthly visits to Apex.”
That sounded delightful, for the time being. “Until Elena decides to go to school there, then we move with her.”
“You’ve thought about this?”
Lincoln bit back a smile. “Elena went with me to Apex to help with the research. She liked it, and I realized how much I missed it. Almost as much as I missed you.”
“A lot, then?”
“So much so that I’m thinking about buying a house there.” One close to the lake, with a terrible HOA and nosy neighbors. Those he missed too.
“Oh, are you? Which house?” Carter’s knowing smile was so big, so full of love and contentment, of hope and excitement, that Lincoln loosed his own, unable to hold it in any longer, unable to deny the boundless happiness filling up his soul, all thanks to this brave, sexy, brilliant man in his arms.
He grinned at his future husband and gave him the truth, the family, the future they’d found, together. “Our house, of course.”
