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“Getting into the habit of calling you by your name and then having to break myself out of it if you decided you didn’t want me.” He snorts. “As if I could forget how you look or how I feel about you.”
“And how do you feel about me?” I ask. He’s never hidden how he feels about me, yet that doesn’t stop me from holding my breath as I wait for his response.
“The same way my wolf does.”
“Which is?”
“Mine. You’re mine, Saige Leo. And giving you up was never an option.” His eyes search mine. “Do you want me to stop? I’d call you Angel, but I don’t think I’d live long if Kade heard me.”
I smile up at him. “Probably not. It’s a strange nickname.”
Even if that’s what I was for a time. Jane Doe. Just a nameless woman the cops fished from under the Lancaster Bridge.
“I could give you another,” he offers. “Or just call you by your name. It’s almost as beautiful as you are.”
Pleasure unfurls in my chest at his sweet compliment. When he gazes down at me with a soft warmth in his eyes, I know he means it.
I stroke my hands under his shirt, skimming my fingers over his hot, muscled back. “You’re going to be late,” I warn him.
He brushes his lips across mine in a fleeting touch. “They can wait. And they’re going to keep on waiting if you don’t stop that, Jane.”
“I don’t mind it, by the way. You call me Jane in the same way you say my name.”
“And is that a way you like?” His next kiss is so sweet it makes me arch up for more of the same. When he breaks it, it’s far too soon. “Or something I need to change?”
“The name isn’t important,” I tell him. “It’s the way you look at me when you say it.”
“And how do I look at you?”
“Say, Jane,” I quietly order.
He focuses those blue-green eyes on me. “Jane.”
Seeing the same thing I always see, I smile. “Now say, Saige.”
“Saige,” he says and my smile grows.
“You’re looking at me in a way that’s making me regret ever going to med school so I can stay here with you instead,” he says. “Why is that?”
“You look at me like I’m yours, and there’s nothing you wouldn’t do to keep me,” I quietly explain.
He brushes the hair back from my brow and lowers his head. “Good. Because it’s true.”
As he settles his weight over me and I hook my leg around his hip, his phone vibrates again, making him groan in frustration.
I push him away when he makes no move to get up. “Go. But don’t forget to come back.”
“As if I could forget a thing like that,” he grins.
And after one last kiss, he leaves.
CHAPTER 42
SAIGE
Ican’t work out what’s going on, but something is.
Kade keeps glancing at the front door, and Aden keeps looking at Kade. Dariel is probably the only one acting normally since he has his back to the kitchen counter, watching me. He’s serious as always. Behind him, mid-afternoon light streams in through the newly replaced window the contractors finished putting in the day before.
