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“It’s for you, Carter.”
I slap her ass, hard, and she moans and curls into me. Her hands slip out of my hair and cup my neck. Her touch is everything — soothing, agitating, erotic, too much, not enough — and I can’t believe I’m finally holding her like this.
“Don’t ever make me ask you that, again.”
“Don’t ever not call me for a week and then go out on a date,” she nips my bottom lip.
“It wasn’t a date.”
“It wasn’t?”
“It was my agent.”
“I saw you with a woman. A very beautiful woman.”
“My agent’s wife,” I explain.
“Oh.” She tilts her head up, her pouty lips puckered.
“What?”
“I was hoping I’d get to cuss her out or something.”
I burst out laughing as their hasty departure finally makes sense.
I lean down and rest my cheek on the top of her head and breathe in this enchantress who has thoroughly ruined me for anyone and everything.
When she presses her lips to my neck, her hot mouth trailing wet, open mouth kisses up my jaw, her breathy exhale as she whispers my name against my lips, it’s like she’s begging me to make her mine.
I push away from her and she presses her head back against the wall and meets my eye.
“So…are we done being just friends?”
She breaks into a huge grin and I can’t help but grin back.
“What’s so funny?”
She smacks my chest lightly and shakes her head. “Nothing. I’m just so fucking happy. I can’t believe I let you leave without telling you….” She strokes my cheek.
“Telling me what?”
Her eyes scan my face and in the dim light of the dark hallway - I swear - she’s beaming.
“That-- I love you, too. Your mercy, and your music, and your smile - all of it, all of you. It’s the easiest thing I’ve ever done. I love you so much.” With each word, my own feelings multiply, but at the edge of them, there’s a spasm of worry. This woman, she’s choosing me. But, what if I fuck it up? What if she wakes up tomorrow and realizes she’s giving up everything for me?
“Are you sure, Beth?”
She takes my hand and puts it in the center of her chest. I splay my fingers and stroke her soft skin.
“My whole heart, Carter. It’s yours. My love, it’s as sure as the sunrise. And it has been since the first time you kissed me.”
Fuck, she’s trying to kill me.
“Baby—”
She puts a hand up to hush me. “I never dared to hope that I’d feel this way. I’ve had a bad year, Carter, but despite all of that, right now, when I have absolutely no right to be, I’m happy. Because you found me. And I found you. And we are each other’s.”
I close my eyes against the rush of relief that runs through me. I was coming apart thinking about leaving and us not being together. And she loves me.
