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“Maggie is really sweet,” I explained. “They had a sleepover here last weekend.”
“Maggie has two daddies!” Kaylee exclaimed. “She was really jealous when I told her that I havethree.” She scrunched up her face in thought. “I think her daddies are different, though. They kiss each other the way you kiss Trish.”
Harrison and I exchanged a look, then burst out laughing.
“She’s lucky to have two daddies,” Harrison said while Kaylee got ready to go. “Some kids don’t have any daddies at all.”
I finished baking the cupcakes while Harrison drove her to her friend’s house. They were just coming out of the oven when he got home.
“Perfect timing. These will be ready as soon as I put the icing on them.”
Harrison came up behind me. “It’s not the icing I want to lick.”
I giggled. “That was the kind of cheesy line I would expect from Jordy. He’s rubbing off on you.”
“I want to rub off onyou.”
I laughed harder. “That’s even cheesier!”
He kissed the back of my neck. “You have that effect on me.”
I started to say something else, but then I surrendered to the way his lips felt on my skin. Two weeks wasn’t very long, but it was enough time for me to crave his touch more than anything. I leaned back into him and let him caress me, until finally he couldn’t stand it any longer. He wrapped his arms around me and carried me into the bedroom—hisbedroom—and tossed me on the bed.
“I just stripped the sheets this morning,” I said. “I was going to put clean ones on before you got back.”
“Don’t care,” he rumbled into my mouth. “Not enough time.”
I sighed as he practically ripped off my clothes, then his own. I loved the way Harrison alwaystookme, like he couldn’t breathe if he didn’t ravish me as quickly as possible. I was already drenched as he sank between my legs, filling me with ease, a reconnection that was two weeks in the making. There were no words as we made love like animals; we didn’t need any. Just gasps and moans and the frantic grunts of two people who wanted nothing else in this world except each other.
We were both panting and laying on our backs afterward, too spent to move. “I love the way you take me,” I breathed.
“I loveyou.”
It took me a moment to realize there was no qualifier on the end of that sentence. Not,I love your body, or,I love the way you feel. Just,I love you. The simplest, and yet most complicated, phrase a person could say.
I rolled onto my side to look at him. “It’s about damn time.”
His eyes sparkled like emeralds as he blinked at me. “Huh?”
“I was wondering when you would finally say it.” I leaned in close and brushed my lips against his. “I love you too, Harrison Gray.”
He threaded his fingers into my hair and held my forehead against his. “How long have you been waiting to say it?”
“Oh, at least three or four months.”
He gave a start. “And you kept it to yourself?”
“I didn’t want to spook you!” I replied.
Harrison sat up in bed and rolled his shoulders forward. “Why do you think I would get spooked?”
“Because you’re the most emotionally bottled-up person I’ve ever met.” I sat up and kissed his bare chest. “Which is part of what I love about you.”
“It’s tough to say that to someone,” he explained. “Especially when you don’t know if they’ll say it back.”
“Exactly! That’s why I held off until you said it.”
“You and Jordy said it after just three months.”
