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“We’ve already waited years. You really want to wait more?”
A million thoughts flit through my head. We’d be newlyweds. I’m trying to start a new career. We need to adjust to living together. I’m still pretty young.
But we’ve known each other forever, so how much do we really need to get to know or adjust to one another? I can still work and be a mom; lots of women do it well. And worrying about age is for people who don’t know what they want out of life. I totally do.
“You’re right. Let’s start now.”
He laughs, then smacks a kiss across my mouth that’s meant as a celebration. It soon lingers, then worships. I’m sucked back into a vortex of passion I can’t escape. I have a feeling that’s how it will always be between Hayden and me.
When I’m melting, panting, and red-cheeked, he settles his body between my splayed thighs and peers deep into my eyes. “The night you gave me that token, you said you’d be saving yourself for me. Perrie?”
I know what he’s asking. I swallow. “I’m a virgin.”
A smile softens his face. “I should have guessed sooner. You’re a girl who always keeps her word. You’re not actually engaged to Derek, are you?”
“No.”
“And you never have been?”
I can’t quite look Hayden in the eye. “He’s a really good friend. I do love him…but he’s like a brother to me.”
“So why did you come here and…”
“And pretend? Derek offered me a job at his new start-up in Seattle. Before I accepted, I had to come here and see if there was any chance that you could finally want me. He offered to help.”
“I always wanted you…even when I shouldn’t have. So this farce was for me?”
I nod. “I figured if it didn’t matter to you now that I belonged to someone else, it never would. Then I could move to Seattle and try to get on with my life.”
“You need to turn down his job and tell him to go to hell.”
I laugh. “He won’t be terribly surprised. He’s only flying back tomorrow because—”
“He’s not even fake marrying you at noon.”
I shake my head. “He’s not. He just needs to get his stuff and say goodbye.”
Hayden raises a brow. “If he wants to stay tomorrow and watch me marry you—just so he knows you’re off-limits—I’m all for that.”
“You mean…you and I get married? For real?”
“Why let a perfectly good wedding go to waste?”
I giggle, giddy with happiness. Hayden is giving me everything I could have wanted. Well, almost. I’m still waiting for him to join our bodies and make me his in the most primal way possible.
“I love it,” I murmur. “I love you.”
“I love you, too. In a few hours—if I can stand not being inside you—I’ll get the engagement ring I bought you out of my pocket and slip it on your finger. Then we’ll open that bottle of champagne and drink from the glasses I sent with it, the ones that say Mr. and Mrs.” He flashes me a self-deprecating smile. “I was thinking positive because there’s no one else I want to be Mrs. Hughes except you.”
“That sounds great. But right now…”
“Right now, I’ve got to have you. I feel like I’ve waited my whole fucking life.”
“Me, too.”
Then silence falls between us. Hayden lowers his head and takes my lips again in a kiss both solemn and passionate. His hands roam, outlining the curve of my waist, then he grips my hips as he braces himself and nuzzles my neck.
After tracing an erotic path over my pulse point, his lips drift to my ear while he aligns his naked cock against the entrance to my small, aching pussy. “Tell me you’re mine, Perrie.”
