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My smile fades, the world stands still, and my heart performs the ultimate betrayal.
At least I know in the future, if I’m ever asked if I can pinpoint a moment when I fell in love, I can say yes.
Because right here, in the middle of an open field, I fall in love with Jake Williams.
This place may be vast, but his heart is bigger.
And I get to see it. He’s allowing me.
But in doing so, he’s caused me to fall harder than I’ve ever fallen before.
I’m afraid I might keep falling and never get out.
I laugh through my tears. “Don’t forget,” I tell him, but the lump in my throat chokes my words.
“Don’t forget what, Trouble?”
I dab the tears from my chin with the heel of my palm. “Fresh Air Blue.”
Hands stuffed into the pockets of his dark slacks, he simply stands and stares at me as we silently relive the memory. He tips his chin with one of those breath-taking smiles. “Fresh Air Blue,” he agrees.
Shifting under the heat of his eyes, my mouth opens to ramble. “Please don’t ask me to run this place.” I laugh, but it sounds like a sob. “It’s too big.”
There’s a comfortable silence for a beat before I walk to him and press my hand over his chest, feeling his heart beat madly beneath my fingers.
“You have a beautiful heart, Jake.”
And I’ve fallen deeply in love with it.
He lowers to press his head against mine and cups my face.
“I never knew so much trouble could teach me what it’s like to use it again.”
My pulse pounds behind my ears, and I don’t hear the birds anymore.
“Jake…”
But I don’t say it.
I wouldn’t dare.
Not now.
The thread snaps again.
His mouth is on mine before my next breath, and we ravish each other. Starved and possessed, our mouths collide over and over until my head is spinning. He lifts me high around his waist. I don’t know where he’s bringing me, but I don’t care.
A minute later, my skin is on cold metal, but it does little to extinguish the heat.
Hiking up my dress, he unbuckles his belt, pulls my panties to one side, and right here, on the hood of his car, in the middle of an open field, we make love.
Chapter Thirty-Three
Tummy fluttering, I step out of the bathroom and tiptoe to the bed. I kiss the top of his head, choosing to text him when I leave so he doesn’t wake and panic.
He stirs, twisting onto his back. It takes a minute for his eyes to adjust. He’s probably wondering why I’m standing over him, fully clothed in the middle of the night.
“Sorry. I didn’t want to wake you. Go back to sleep.”
