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Something like this is worth keeping. It’s worth facing fallout for.
“Look at us, we survived our first fight,” Javi muses, sweeping my hair out of my face as he grins down at me.
“Can we go somewhere?” I ask, heartbeat picking up tempo again. Because I’ve been wanting to do something with him since last night, and the way he’s looking at me right now has me feeling brave enough to take the leap.
“Where?”
“The cabin.”
Javi nods, his hand gliding down my arm until it meets my own. He laces our fingers together, taking a step back toward his truck and urging me to follow with a heart-stopping grin. “Vamos,Hermosa.”
21
“Did you listen to your song of the day?” I ask as I pull back onto the road, Lo securely belted in the seat beside me again.
I’m not sure what got into her, but part of me is glad for it. She wouldn’t have gotten all worked up like that if she didn’t care, which means I’m not imagining how much things have grown between us. I wasn’t lying when I told her I care forher, too. Meeting Lo was unexpected, but maybe it’s just what I needed to put things into perspective and come to realize what I truly want.
“Of course I did,” she replies, the corners of her lips curling up in an adorable little smirk.
I flash her a grin of my own, slipping my phone out of my pocket. “Wanna hear it again?”
She nods, and I pull up my Spotify app, double-checking that my phone is connected to the Bluetooth through my truck as I hit play onChasing Carsby Snow Patrol.
The opening notes of the piano ring out through the speakers and I reach over the center console to grab ahold of her hand, threading my fingers through hers.
I never thought I’d be into this lovey-dovey shit, but what can I say? I’m a changed man. Sure, part of it may be the mate bond at play, but I’d put most of the credit on the doe-eyed blonde sitting beside me, relaxing back in her seat as the music plays and watching the trees pass by outside the passenger window.
Lo Anderson is unlike anyone I’ve ever met. She’s smart. Determined. Loyal to a fault. Feisty, when the situation calls for it. Sometimes even when it doesn’t. And damnit if I’m not falling for every one of her quirks, despite my best efforts to stay the course I’ve been set on.
The drive to the cabin is a short one, but it’s enough to play her a few more songs until she’s looking at me with hearts in her eyes and a permanent smile on her face. She left her anger and trepidation on the side of the road, and I left the last of my doubts over whether I can do what I have to do to cement my pack’s place in this territory.
As I pull the truck up the gravel drive to the cabin, I get that same jittery feeling that I always do when I come here. It’sourplace- where we had our first kiss, shared our first meal. Nobody and nothing can touch us when we’re here within these walls. It’s the only place where both of us can drop the pretenses and really be ourselves.
Lo unbuckles her seatbelt, opening her door and hopping down from the cab of the truck before I’ve even cut the engine. She must feel the same way about this dingy old cabin as I do, because she seems just as eager to get inside. By the time I’ve shut off the truck and climbed out, she’s already jogged up to the rock beside the steps to retrieve the key, fitting it in the lock and pushing the door open just as I catch up to her.
“Come here,” I growl, wrapping my arms around her waist from behind and pulling her body back against mine, the two of us stumbling over the threshold together. “I haven’t even had a chance to kiss you properly yet.”
She spins around in my arms, pushing up on her toes to slam her lips against mine as I kick the door closed behind us, devouring her kiss like a starving man.
She loops her arms around my neck, fingers diving into my hair as my own hands slide down to squeeze her ass while I walk her backwards toward the couch, never breaking our kiss. Her lips pout and twist, her tongue twining with my own as we fall onto the sofa together in a tangle of limbs.
I kiss a path down her jaw to the side of her neck, sucking and nipping her flesh as I ruck up her shirt, squeezing her perky little tits beneath my palms. I love that she doesn’t always wear a bra- it just makes for easier access. Her back arches as I roll her nipples between my fingers, sucking on her neck harder, wanting to leave my mark in another way but settling for love bites instead.
Someday.
Somedaysoon, I’ll mark her like I truly want to, sealing our bond and embedding my scent beneath her skin. But for now…
A soft moan leaves Lo’s lips as I kiss and suck her neck, my hand gliding down her flat belly to the waistband of her jean shorts.
“Javi,” she pants breathlessly, pressing her palms against my chest. “Javi, wait…”
I pause, pulling back to meet her eyes. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, I just…” she trails off, shuffling out from underneath me to sit up, combing her hair back out of her face with her fingers. “I was sort of hoping we could try something different. Like we did last night.”
A growl rumbles in my chest as I lick my lips, grabbing her by the thighs and dragging her closer to me. “Oh we candefinitelydo that again,” I murmur, my fingers tucking into the waist of her jean shorts.
“No, not you,” she breathes, batting my hands away.
