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“Didn’t what?” Cash asks, his face quizzical.
I almost stop myself from saying it, stop myself from believing I can have it all, but then I remember his words. He loves me.
“What if I didn’t go home? What if this,”—I pause, holding his chest, touching his heart, and then meeting his eyes—“what if this was my home?”
Cash’s hands lift to my cheeks, and he looks at me in genuine surprise. “Really? You’d want to live with me?”
I nod, nervous but also excited.
Cash brings our lips together and kisses me. “Angel, I’ve never wanted anything more in my life. You, us, this. Move in with me.”
I laugh. “Are you trying to take credit for my idea?”
He smiles. “Oh, you want credit?”
“Yes! You always say I’m the one holding back. I get credit for being the one to take the big step! Give me my credit, dammit.”
We both laugh and I sink against his chest, content and relaxed as his fingers run circles along my back. Then feeling a little concerned that I just pushed this all upon him, I say quickly, “I’ll still keep my apartment. I’ll just keep some clothes here. That way if you want me here, I can be but certainly if you want space, I can stay at my place.”
Cash looks up at me with amusement in his eyes. “Grace, I live in a ten thousand square foot penthouse. Do you think I couldn’t find space in here?”
I laugh as I look away from him, self-conscious about how he didn’t say, I won’t need space. “Right. I could get lost in this place.”
“Grace, look at me,” he says with more force.
I slowly slide my gaze back to his. The water is cooling, and I’m feeling uncomfortably naked and vulnerable, not to mention a bit cold. I lean back to turn the water on, just to heat us up, but I think Cash senses my spiraling and he pulls me back to him. “I don’t want space from you. In fact, you are currently too far from me, and I’m inside of you.”
Smiling, I glance down between us, only now realizing we never broke our connection. He’s softened, but we’re still attached.
“Don’t give me an out,” he says, pulling my face to his. “I don’t want it and I won’t take it. I want this, every night.” He leans in and kisses me, and I relax, hungry for him again as I feel him harden within me.
“Fine,” I say, smiling as if I’m really being put out by this. “I’ll move in next week. If you’re sure.”
He laughs. “You are something else, woman. And why next week? Let’s take care of the move this weekend. Or better yet I can have Frank arrange everything this week.”
I shake my head. “I need to figure out what I’m bringing and not.”
“Everything. You are bringing everything because you are moving in with me. We aren’t doing this half-ass, Grace. It’s you and me. No outs. No fallbacks. No emergency plan.”
It’s so easy for him to say when he’s not the one moving himself twice in less than two months. I just finished packing up my stuff from my house. I’m not ready to give up any semblance of a fallback plan.
A parachute would lessen the blow if things spiral, but no matter what, I know losing Cash would send me full out smattering into the ground, bits and pieces of my heart everywhere.
Having the apartment as a small form of backup seems like something I just can’t risk giving up. Rather than saying all that though, I change the topic. “I can’t this weekend. I have to go to an event with Jonathan.”
Cash scowls. “Seriously? We are still doing this.” He lets out a frustrated breath and pushes back from me, sliding free from our connection.
I close the distance between us and hug him before grabbing a towel and standing up. It’s too cold to continue this conversation in here. Wrapping the towel around myself, I look down at Cash, waiting for him to get out. He grunts and stands up before taking the towel I have for him. I move into his arms and squeeze.
“The media is still watching my every move. We just have to keep our relationship hush-hush for a few more months. Which shouldn’t be hard with our amazing driver, Frank,” I say, winking at him.
Cash grumbles an agreement that Frank is very good at his job.
“And I owe Jonathan,”I emphasize.
Cash scowls. “You don’t owe anyone anything.”
“Mr. James,you love me, which is why you want to protect me. And you get all the sex. Which I think you’ll admit is pretty amazing.”
