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His eyes warm. “Because you love it.”
I can’t deny it. I do. I love how he takes charge of giving pleasure in the bedroom. I don’t have to do anything but lay back and enjoy myself. It’s freeing and exciting and everything I never knew I wanted.
I feign indifference. “Meh. Maybe.”
“I’ll show you how much you love me teasing you,” he growls.
Goodie! I am one hundred percent on board with this plan. Starting now. I dance the fingertips of my free hand over his chest and he moans.
“You’re killing me.”
He snatches my hand.
“My hands appear tiny next to yours.”
“There’s a reason I nicknamed you my pixie.” He kisses my nose. “Stop stalling.”
“I’m not stalling.”
He cocks an eyebrow. Okay, fine. Maybe I’m stalling a little bit. But this is a big deal for me. I’m beating back all my fears about being with a younger man to ask Brody to sleep in my bed. I might be making the biggest mistake of my life. I’m probably buying a one-way ticket to the heartbreak hotel. And I’ve heard the hotel has bed bugs.
“You don’t need to pick up the bed because you can sleep with me,” I say as fast as I can.
“Sleep with you with a Soleil Wall between us?”
“No walls.”
He maneuvers us until he’s looming over me. “Will I be your dirty little secret?”
“You can’t keep a secret in Winter Falls.”
“Maybe you can.”
My nose wrinkles. “What do you mean? Are you keeping secrets?”
“Nope.”
His answer came way too fast. He’s definitely keeping a secret.
I open my mouth to grill him about his secret but snap it shut again when I realize I’m keeping secrets from him, too. He doesn’t know how jealous I am of my friends and their families. How I’m dying to have children of my own. A whole bunch of children running around the house causing havoc.
And I’m not telling him. I don’t know where this thing with Brody will go. But I do know if I unload my dreams of being a mother on him, he’ll suddenly be able to find somewhere else in Winter Falls to live. I don’t want him living anywhere else than with me.
Whoa!Slow down, Soleil. Brody and I are barely in a relationship. We’re not living together, living together.
Brody taps my nose. “Where did you go? And do they have unicorns that fart jellybeans there?”
“Jellybeans?”
He shrugs. “I’m a sucker for cinnamon jellybeans.”
“Cinnamon is the best flavor. Have you tried—” He places a finger over my lips to quiet me.
“Soleil Hawk, do you want to be in a relationship with me? One the entire town of Winter Falls knows about. One the entire town will make bets about. They’ll probably spy on us, too.”
My heart hammers in my chest as fear grips me. Am I making a mistake? Will I regret it? Is Brody too immature for me? There’s only one way to find out. Put on my big girl panties and say yes.
“Yes.”
