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“If it’s okay with your mom. Although I’m getting hungry.”
“Me too!” Rachel said, rubbing her stomach.
Dakota rolled her eyes. Rachel was always hungry. She couldn’t even imagine what the girl would be like as a teenager.
“All right, let’s go here and sit down.”
Dakota, her heart in her throat, met Ryan’s eyes. He was serious, but there was an excitement about him that she wished she had. Instead, she just felt dread. This had the potential to rock all of their worlds.
Lord. You can make this go the exact right direction. Please.
She didn’t close her eyes, but she followed her girls over and sat down, hoping that this wasn’t the worst mistake of her life.
Chapter 15
Ryan knew he shouldbe nervous. He really didn’t have any idea what he was going to say, but he was excited. The girls liked him, enjoyed his company, and had fun with him. They listened to him, and that was probably more Dakota than anything, because they were good girls.
But if he handled this right, and if Dakota was going in the direction he thought she was, slowly moving toward him, he could end up with a ready-made family.
He swallowed. He hadn’t thought he was a family man, but he’d come a long way from the days of not wanting to have anything to do with a wife and kids, thinking they would hold him back, keep him down, and keep him from achieving his dreams.
Those dreams didn’t mean anything. It was people. Family. The folks who sacrificed in order to see him fly.
He wanted to spend his life with those people. With Dakota. With her daughters.Theirdaughters.
He tried to calm himself down, because he had a lot riding on this.
The girls sat down in the sand, then he knelt in front of them.
Dakota knelt down a little off to the side and behind the girls so that their focus could be on him.
It was so much like her. Not taking the spotlight, not trying to control anything, but being there, his wingman. Supporting him, available if he needed her, but ready to yield the spotlight, and whatever else she had to in order to help him be what he needed to be.
He wanted to tell her right then and there that he loved her. It had almost slipped out earlier.
Just like he’d almost bent his head and kissed her as well. But he didn’t think he wanted to kiss her until she knew that he loved her, and maybe not even until he knew that she loved him back. After all, he wasn’t in the habit of kissing just anyone. He didn’t go around with his goal in life being to get kissed or to kiss. His goal in life was far more than just a kiss. He wanted everything. But only from Dakota.
