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“Enjoy your vacation, Charlie,” Davis says before the rock in my throat can dislodge. “Then get your ass back here. Last year’s gonna be hard to top. But we’re damn sure about to try.”
I laugh lightly. “Yeah.”
We end the call.
I cast a glance at the water, catching sight of my wife’s bare ass as she trips in the waves and then sputters, standing, arms tossed to the sky.
And then I’m stripping off my boots, my jeans, my shirt and tossing them onto the sand beside our things.
I go in after her.
Like I always fucking will.
She’s smiling, her mouth open in laughter as she spots me coming.
“Fucking cold,” I rasp.
Ruby bounces into me, and I grab her around the waist. “Had to get you in somehow,” she says, her blue eyes glittering with mischief.
My lips meet her soft ones, inhaling her saltwater and strawberry scent, those soft gasps I goddamn adore. Then my hand skims her jaw, letting my fingers gauge the pulse in her throat.
My bad habit.
My addiction.
Her heartbeat.
I know its pulse as well as my own.
Because it beats for me as much as it does for her.
On the ranch, I’ve always known you can’t tame the wild. And I now know I can’t tame Ruby’s heart. All I can do is love it.
“C’mon, Sunflower,” I tell her, staring into her bright blue eyes. “We’re gonna miss the sunset.”
She tilts her head. “You came all this way to tell me that?”
“I came to kiss you. Now I’m comin’ to get you out before you fuckin’ freeze.”
I carry her onto the beach, naked and dripping wet. I grab the towel from the sand and drape it over her shoulders, my eyes trailing over her slender throat, her tan breasts. Beautiful beyond words.
“How was it?” I ask.
“C-cold,” she says, wringing out her wet hair, her breath heavy in her chest.
I make sure she’s warm, dry off and dress myself, and then we settle onto our blanket right in time for the sunset. She sits in my lap, leaning back against my chest,
I kiss her temple. “This is it. Last thing to check off on your list.”
We caught the sunrise in Tahoe right after we were married.
A radiant smile overtakes her face. “Yep.” She gestures toward the horizon. “It’s my California sunset. And we have the very best seats in the world.”
“A show just for you, darlin’.”
For a long few minutes, Ruby’s silent. Then she gasps. “It’s beautiful.”
“It is,” I say, but I’m looking at her.
