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“Yes it is.” She pointed inside the bathroom. “He got revenge on your toilet paper.”
Sam craned his neck around the door and groaned at the strips of white hanging from every surface. “He’s a baby. I thought he’d sleep for a while. I left him his bed and litter box and food.” He glanced down at the empty dish. “Maybe not enough food.”
“He could’ve come out with us, silly. I love cats.” She leaned against his chest and angled up to kiss his chin. “Plus I’ve been wanting to meet him.”
“Uh uh, he’s a voyeur. He always lurks around when I’m on the phone with you. No way he’s seeing my woman naked.”
The glow from his words seemed to fan out from her heart to every one of her cells. Now she had a new thing to chant in her head. My woman. God. Had anything ever made her happier?
Rory glanced down as fur brushed against her calf and let out a laugh. “Too late. The voyeur’s struck again.”
Sure enough, Junior plunked down on his behind and stared up at them. Sam made a show of covering her breasts with his hands and tugging her back toward the bedroom, leaving Junior to follow, tail held high.
“Oh yeah. The bed.” She glanced over her shoulder and let out a war whoop at the size of his new king-size special. “We never even tried it out yet.” She wrenched away from Sam and took a flying leap, landing dead center. She flung out her arms and sighed contentedly. “So bouncy.”
“Bouncy is good,” Sam agreed, flopping down beside her. A moment later the cat pranced across Sam’s belly on his way over to Rory, whom he processed to sniff before curling up next to her side. “See what I mean?”
“I certainly do.” She cuddled against Sam and wiggled her nose between his ear and his neck, enjoying his little catch of breath as she reached down to palm his cock. “We’ll just have to be sneaky.”
“I’m willing to do whatever it takes,” he said somberly, arching into her strokes while pretending to zip his lips.
Later, Rory snuggled against Sam’s chest, her feet under the purring lump that was Junior. She was on the verge of dozing off when his voice stirred her. “Ror,” he murmured, reminding her of the love letter she’d written that he hadn’t read yet. Already part of it had come true, like a prophecy. Here they were, tangled together in the dark, and she could hear his heartbeat as clearly as the sleet pelting the windows.
“Yeah?”
“You’re not the only one who fell.” He cleared his throat when she glanced up at him quizzically. “In love, I mean. It took me longer but I’m right there with you.” His mouth curved. “God, I’m so there.”
She grinned and let her head fall back to his chest. “It’s all happened so fast. Normally I don’t trust things that I can’t predict. But this time it’s funny.”
“What’s funny?”
The little hitch of worry in his voice made her grin spread. “It’s funny how much I trust in you and me. We’re right. I can feel it.”
He took her hand and lifted it to his mouth in that old-fashioned, gentlemanly way he had that always sucked the last coherent thought from her head. “We’re both overdue for some right.” He nipped her skin then soothed the bite with his tongue. “And, yeah, it feels damn good.”
“G’night, Sam,” she whispered, eager to fall asleep for the first time with his breath ruffling her cheek.
“G’night, Ror.” His arm circled her waist. “Love you. Just trying it out,” he added when she chuckled.
“Love you too,” she echoed. “Same reason.”
“Wow, I actually said something out loud instead of writing it down.” He sounded awestruck.
“Me too. Though I wrote you a letter too. A ridiculously mushy one.”
“Yeah?” There was no denying the pleasure in his voice. “I can’t wait to read it. Especially since I have one for you too.”
“Really?”
“Really. It’s not as flashy as a billboard but—”
“I don’t need a billboard.” She kissed his shoulder and inhaled his scent. A faint hint of sweat, soap, motor oil. Sam. “Just need you.”
“Now that that’s squared away…good night for real.”
She waited until his breaths became soft and even then glanced up to see if Junior had noticed the most important moment of her life. Sure enough, bright-gold eyes glowed at her in the dark.
She settled back into Sam’s embrace and grinned. At least she had a witness.
