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I smile and thread my hand through her hair. “You’re mine now,” I murmur against her lips. “My girlfriend.”
Emilia bridges the distance between us and kisses me. Her hands roam over my body and I smile against her lips. I pull away and pull her up with me before lifting her into my arms and carrying her to my bedroom.
“I love you,” I tell her.
She smiles at me so widely that my heart skips a beat. “I love you too,” she whispers. I put her down on my bed and hold myself up on top of her.
“Say it again.”
Emilia giggles and runs her hands over my body. “I love you, Carter.”
“Again.”
“Babe, I love you.”
“One more time.”
Emilia laughs and pulls me closer, her lips finding mine. I can easily lose myself in her. In fact, I’m planning on doing just that for the rest of the day.
“I adore you,” I whisper. “I’m sorry I was such a fool. I’m sorry it took me two whole weeks to fix things. Thank you for being you, and for being mine.”
Emilia shakes her head and cups my face. “I’m glad you had some time to think things through. Considering everything we’ve been through it does make sense.”
She bites down on her lip, a hint of insecurity in her eyes. “Maybe we should keep things a secret for now. We can just date without the pressure of Kate and your family. Do you think that’ll settle some of your worries? That way if things do go wrong like you feared, they won’t know. We’d be able to step back and try our best to be friends without the additional scrutiny from them.”
I drop my forehead to hers. “Do you think it’s lame that I’m insecure about us?” I don’t dare to tell her just how badly her getting with Landon affected me. She was my everything, but I can’t have meant that much to her if she started dating someone else so soon after I left. I’m terrified of it happening again. I’m scared she’ll break my heart again.
“No, babe,” she whispers. “I think it’s hot as hell that you’re honest about it. I’d rather you tell me these things so we can work it out together, instead of you leaving me guessing. It really hurt to think you only wanted my body. It hurt to think I was falling in love while you just… weren’t.”
I press a kiss to her forehead and then another one to her nose. “Minx, I’m pretty sure I’ve been in love with you all my life. I don’t think I ever truly fell out of love with you.”
She kisses me and grazes my lower lip with her teeth. “I definitely never fell out of love with you,” she says. “The only reason I agreed to the whole friends with benefits thing is because I wanted whatever you would give me.”
I turn us over in bed and pull her on top of me. Emilia rests her head on my chest and I play with her hair.
“Are you sure you’d be okay with keeping it low key for a while?”
Emilia turns and presses a kiss to my neck. “Yes, Carter. I just want you to be mine. The rest will come.”
Chapter 31
Carter
I wake up alone and pat the other side of my bed, annoyed to find it empty. I yawn and make my way to the bathroom to freshen up before walking out of my room to find Emilia. She’s in the kitchen wearing nothing but one of my t-shirts and it looks hot on her. I walk up to her and wrap my arms around her waist from behind.
“Morning, baby,” I whisper. She turns in my arms and wraps her arms around my neck. She smiles up at me and my heart skips a beat.
“Morning,” she murmurs. She rises to her tiptoes and presses her lips against mine. I cup the back of her head and deepen our kiss, taking my time with her. She tastes like toothpaste and coffee. I grab her waist and lift her on top of the kitchen counter. Emilia wraps her legs around me and pulls me closer. I groan and nip at her lips. “We should go back to bed,” I murmur. I’m already hard again.
We both jump at the sound of a door closing behind us. Emilia looks up at me with wide eyes when Asher walks into the kitchen. He looks just as awkward as we do, but he recovers far quicker.
“Thank God you two got back together. I don’t think I could cope with Carter’s miserable ass for one more second,” he says, grinning up at Emilia.
I lift her off the counter, and she looks at me in question. I just shrug. “He’s my best friend and he lives with me. I couldn’t not tell him.”
Asher shakes his head. “If you two are going to subject me to any type of PDA, then I demand to be fed.”
Emilia laughs and walks over to the coffee pot to pour him a cup. “Fair enough,” she says . Asher takes the mug from her and ruffles her hair like she’s a child. The outrage on her face is cute as fuck.
