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“You do?” I ask.
He dips his chin, then lifts his head and gives me a smirk. “C’mon,” he calls out, holding his hand out palm facing upward.
My eyes flick from his face to his hand. When I place my hand in his, he curls his fingers around mine as he gently tugs me until I’m standing on my feet. He turns, then begins to walk, practically dragging me behind him. I don’t mind. My feet move quickly, and my heart begins to race as we hurry through the bar and head outside. He stops beside his bike, then turns to me.
“We’re going for a ride. Hop on.”
ITCH
Riding down the country road, I make my way through town. It doesn’t take long to get there. The clubhouse is only about ten miles away from the downtown area. And even closer to our destination.
When I pull up to the curb, I kill the engine and look at the residence. It’s a brand-new neighborhood, being built because the market has been completely insane, which is good for us, because otherwise, we’d have to probably renovate an older house in town.
“Itch?” Piper exhales.
“Climb off, babe,” I murmur.
She does without a single word of protest. I do the same after her. She’s standing just about half a foot away from the bike, her lips parted in awe at the single-story home I fucking bought today. Cash.
It will take two weeks to close on the house, but it’s a brand-new build, completely empty, and they told me I could bring her here to look at it today and gave me the code to get in. So, while it’s not in my name yet, it will be in just a few days.
“What is this?” Piper asks when I stay silent.
Taking a step toward her, I slip my hand into hers and continue to walk forward, not saying a single word. I want her to see it all. Not just the front, not just the idea. I want her to see what exactly I’ve done and what I’m giving her.
Reaching for the keypad, I key in the numbers the agent gave me and hear the mechanism unlock. Piper tugs on my hand and tries to hold me back as I push the front door open. When I take a step forward, she tugs on my hand again, halting me in place.
I turn my head to look over my shoulder at her. Arching a brow, I wait for whatever it is she’s going to say, because it’s clear she has something to tell me.
“We can’t go in there,” she hisses.
My lips twitch into a smile, and I jerk my head toward the house. “Yeah, babe. We can.”
I still don’t explain myself. There’s nothing to say yet, not until she’s stepped into the house. Not until she sees it. I’ve never had a woman before, so I don’t know if I fucked up by buying a house she hasn’t seen yet, but here I am, and hopefully, she doesn’t hate me for it.
I continue into the house and stop when we’re in the middle of the living room. Only then do I release her hand. She looks around the room, spinning in a circle. From this point in the space, you can see the living room, the kitchen, and the small breakfast room along with the bonus room the agent said could be a playroom, office, or formal dining.
“Itch, what’s happening here?” she asks on a whispered breath.
“This is your house, Piper.”
She whirls around to face me, her eyes wide, her lips parted as she stares unmoving and unspeaking. There is a long moment, one where I don’t move either. We stare at one another waiting for the words I’ve just said to sink in.
“Itch?” she finally says, her voice still a whisper.
“It’s yours, ours, Piper.”
“Ours?”
She can only get single words out at a time, and I think it’s fucking adorable as shit. The sun shines in through the four windows that take up the entire living room wall, making her hair look pink.
Fucking adorable.
“I bought it so we would have our own space, so you would have privacy, so you would have a home.”
She takes half a step toward me, then another. Before she speaks, she throws her arms around me and buries her face in my neck. I feel the wetness there as it slides down the side of my throat.
Slipping my hand into the hair at the back of her neck, I tangle my fingers into the strands and tug her head backward slightly, just enough so I can find her wet gaze. Her lips are puffy as she slides her tongue across the bottom one.
