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Her wary gaze drops to the ribbon tied around my wrist. “Just the summer?”
“Just the summer.” This ends when the season does.
“Are you sure?” A teasing smile toys at her lips, but not before I catch a hint of sadness in her blue eyes. And damn, do I want to understand it. “The last thing I want to do is make you fall in love with me.”
I chuckle, despite the clench in my chest, her words ringing in my head. “Never gonna happen, darlin’.”
Interest dances across her face. “And why is that?”
“I don’t fall in love.”
Not anymore.
“Lucky me,” she says and bows back against the stall door as if to rope me in even more.
And goddamn does she. Like a moth to the flame, I follow.
I can’t stop myself from grabbing her up in my arms and holding her to me. Ruby rides her small hands up my chest. A sexy little gasp pops out of her mouth and my dick clenches.
I lower my mouth to hers. “Say yes. Say yes and I’ll help you with every damn thing on your list.”
I need to hear her say it. I can’t handle the possibility that I’ve had her in my bed for the last time.
“Yes,” she whispers on a breathy sigh. “Yes, Charlie. You. I want you.”
Thank fuck.
“The summer,” I say.
“The summer,” she agrees.
And then she smiles. It breaks every hard shadow inside of me.
Her light.
Framing her face with my hands, I put my lips on hers and inhale. She tastes of sunshine and flowers. I want to breathe her in deep and keep her there.
This girl’s gold. I can’t stay away.
Ruby moans into my mouth and I kiss her deeper. Harder. I slide my hands into her silky hair, grip her by the neck and keep her there. Against my lips.
The summer. This only lasts for the summer.
Her tongue slips over mine, but before I can slide a hand down and part her slender legs, the pony’s long velvet nose nudges her shoulder, breaking our connection.
Ruby laughs, light and musical, a delicate sound that has my cock turning to concrete.
I eye the pony with a wry grin. “Thanks a lot.”
“He’s jealous,” Ruby says, her eyes glassy and heavy lidded.
“I don’t blame him,” I tell her, and then I’m drawing her back into that kiss. I crush her against me, desperate for this girl who’s wrecking me from the inside out.
Her heartbeat mingles with mine where our bodies join, and for the first time in a long time, I feel sunshine in the darkest parts of me.
Itilt my phone and look at the photo on the screen. Colton, who looks more like a floppy-haired surfer than a young hired-hand, leans up against the barn, boots kicked out like a country singer.
“That’s perfect,” I chirp, glancing up. “But how about one more?”
