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My eyes flew open.“No.No, I couldn’t. I missed you every day.”
“And you talked to my employees but not me?”
I bit my lower lip. “Yeah, about that.” I laid my hand on his chest. “They needed me.”
“Ineeded you.”
I swallowed down the lump in my throat. “If I’d opened that door, I’d never have stayed here. You have to know that.”
His gaze dropped to my mouth. “Instead, I found out you’ve been running things from here.” His gaze lifted to meet mine. “Still helping us.”
“I didn’t do much, Mason. I just nudged them with a few ideas, that’s all.”
His other hand came up to cup my jaw. “I thought you cut all ties. I understood why, but all I could focus on was how mad I was that you left. I couldn’t get around it.”
“Mason,” I whispered, the pain of his words radiating through my bloodstream. I’d never wanted to go. Not really. “Maybe I should have—”
He shook his head. “No, I’m not explaining this right. I was mad because you meant so much to me so quickly. That I’d finally found everything I wanted and didn’t have the chance to tell you.”
My breath stalled. “Mason.”
“Just let me get this out. If you want to turn me away after I say it, then that’s fine. I won’t ask for more.”
“Turn you…didn’t you hear a word I said?” I went onto my toes and gripped his shoulders. “I loved working for you. Loved the family you made at the restaurant. Loved—”
“Just working for me?”
I could see the hope in his eyes and the wariness.
I’d caused a lot of it because I’d run. It was for a good reason, but I could have handled it better. But I’d been running from anything that got hard all my life. As the baby of the family, I was allowed to do that, and I’d definitely taken advantage.
I took a deep breath. “I was…no,amfalling in love with you.”
He closed the gap then and covered my mouth with his. He crushed me to him, and he felt so good and solid and perfect. I’d had just a taste of him that night of the party, but I’d fallen in love with the man starting with the day he’d held my hand through the birth of my little girl.
I dragged him inside, pushing him against the sturdy wooden door as I slammed it closed. His mouth raced down my neck and then back up to slant across mine.
“Tell me this is okay,” he said against my lips.
“More than okay. More. Just more,” I said and wound my arms around his neck. I didn’t even know what I was saying, I just wanted him to touch me. My fingernails tunneled through his thick hair, pulling him down to me to get closer.
His hands gripped my ass, pulling me tightly to his very happy jeans. “I mean, okay to do this. I don’t…after the baby. I don’t want to assume.”
“Oh.” I laughed and pressed my cheek against his scruffy one. “Yes. This body is very, very willing and very ready, sir.”
“Fuck.”
I drew back and grinned at him. “Sir? Or just that I’m ready?” I rolled my hips to rub against the active participant behind that zipper.
One I desperately wanted to get my hands on, please and thank you.
“Fuck, I feel like I’ve wanted you forever. I tried. Christ, I tried to put that out of my head, but…” He scraped his teeth along my neck to the scoop neck of my tank top. He flexed his fingertips into the muscles of my ass. “I’ve dreamed of this ass,” he lowered his grip to my thigh and brought it up around his hip so he fit against me better. “These legs wrapped around me. Around my neck. Watching those summer sky eyes stare down at me while I ate you alive.”
“Oh. Well, I’m on board for all of that.”
“But I don’t want to do anything that would…be too aggressive.”
“Nope. Aggress away.” I yelped as he hoisted me up and wrapped my legs around him.
