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I belonged with him.
"Perfect," he whispered against my neck, and kissed me there, his stubble tickling.I arched into him.I wanted the beard burn, the tiny hurt, the fact I’d be marked, even temporarily, as his.
Touch me,I wanted to beg as we undressed each other, but couldn't seem to form words.Fire ignited inside me everywhere he touched, and spread along my limbs until they felt dreamy and heavy, but hot, so hot.
Don't stop touching me.
"I've been thinking almost non-stop about this ever since the last time," he admitted as he gently eased down the straps of my lacy red bra.
I watched him out of half-open, heavy-lidded eyes."Really?"
He rolled his eyes.“Are you fuckin’ kiddin’ me?Yeah.Really.Can’t think about much else, it seems.”
“Since thefirstfirst time, or the video call last week?”
“Both,” Rick answered softly.“These days, I seem to live for being with you, in whatever way I can get.Had to get fuckin’Eddieto check my work the other day, because I was daydreamin’ aboutfinallybeing here with you.”
His face was perfect in the play of moonlight and shadows.
How was it possible, I thought, looking up at him, that nature had endowed one man with so much?
He's incredible.Kind, sweet, smart, insanely handsome.
And he wants me.For as long as this lasts, I'll be happy.
I hope it lasts forever.
I have to follow this, him, and my heart.
I knew I wanted to go to Redwing Falls to be with him, I just didn’t quite know what I was going to do once I got there.Maybe once I figured it out, I’d finally tell Rick that I was absolutely in love with him.
But apparently my heart, and my brain, thought they’d waited long enough, because when Rick settled me into his lap and lined himself up to enter me, I took one look at the stark desire andloveon his face, and I heard myself say, “I love you, Rick.”
He went very still as our gazes met and then held.And then he let out a long breath, cupped the back of my neck, and drew me in for a long, tender kiss.
A knot I didn’t know I’d been harboring in my stomach unfurled, and when he slid inside me to the hilt, it was like being home.
Rickwas my home.
Once we showered together, and we were sitting in bed, I turned to face him.“Rick, I need to tell you something.Remember those co-op shops I’d written to before?One of the letters Seb binned was from them.”
He nodded, his gaze holding mine.
“They emailed me because they hadn’t received a response to their letter.One of their founders found my social media posts andlovedthem, and they want to offer me a space there for half the usual price.”
Rick’s brows winged up, but I caught the sadness in his expression before he said, “Wow.That’s somethin’.You deserve it.”
I settled my hand over his heart.“I’ve decided to say thank you, but no.As much as I was so stoked for that, everything has changed.I’ve been doing research into how I can take my business across the Atlantic.”
Joy lit up his face, and he leaned in to kiss me, cupping my cheek.“Baby, as delighted as I am to hear that, hold that thought.”
“Why?”
“Laurie said you’d start talkin’ about what you were gonna do, and she said when you did, to give you this.”He went to rummage in his duffel bag, then returned and handed me an envelope with my name on in Aunt Laurie’s writing.
I looked at him, puzzled.
“She made me promise not to read it.Not that I would.It’s between you and her,” he said as he slid back into bed.
