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“I have to say it’s a first-time position for me.”
“Me, too.”
He settled himself at her entrance, his body straining to be inside of her. He bent his head to kiss her, lingering over her lips. “A first I’ve no doubt I’m going to love.”
Nova’s arms came around him, her soft sigh echoing between them. It was only as Nikolas entered her body, the culmination of the intimacy and connection they’d had from the first, that he realized something else.
He’d been right about loving being with her.
But it was only in that moment, as the movements of their bodies pushed them both over the edge of pleasurable oblivion, that he knew he actually loved her, too.
* * *
Nikolas was still getting used to his new reality—and the idea that he was in love with Nova—the next morning.
He’d rolled over to pull Nova close, marveling in his mind how he’d fallen so hard and so fast—only to run his hand over a cold fitted sheet. She’d been up for a while if the bed didn’t have any remaining body heat and he was about to go look for her when his phone rang.
“Slater.”
“It’s Marlowe. The lab called this morning. They’ve got the results.”
“I thought it was going to be another week.”
“They had a break in what they were working on and rushed the job.”
“Did they tell you?” Although he’d gotten used to the idea that Nova was Ace’s daughter, the test would be the final piece of proof they could all rely on.
“No. They insist on giving the news to Nova in person. And as the father’s family member authorized to get the results, I have to go with you.”
“What time can you be ready?”
“I’m already ready.” Her smile telegraphed through the phone lines a buoyancy he’d rarely heard from Marlowe Colton. “But how about if I meet you there at ten?”
“See you then.”
Nikolas dragged on a pair of jeans and padded out to the kitchen. Nova wasn’t there and he almost called out her name when he found her in his office, seated at the laptop.
“Hey.”
“Hi.” Her big green eyes seemed to suffuse her face and she offered him a shy smile. “Good morning.”
Even with making love twice more the night before, Nikolas recognized the signs of some morning-after apprehension. Unwilling to leave her with another moment’s concern, he walked over to her and bent to press a kiss to her lips. “Good morning yourself.”
He lingered over her, amazed at how easy it all was. He’d never gone in for the whole commitment thing and owned that he was more than gun-shy based on his father’s ill-advised example, but he never expected it would be so easy to get past it all. Apparently a lifetime of behavior didn’t have to dictate your future.
Especially when someone came along who was more than enough.
That was what he’d never understood about his father’s behavior, Nikolas realized now. His mother was a wonderful, loving woman. A truth Guy Slater acknowledged whenever he spoke about his late wife. Yet something had still kept him looking, always keeping one eye out for the bright and the shiny.
And never realizing that what he had was bright and beautifully shiny all on its own.
Nova was that. All of that. Warm and beautiful.
And absolutely wonderful.
While he might feel that way, he wasn’t sure if she was ready to hear it all. So he focused on her instead. “What are you looking at?”
“I’ve been thinking about your conversation with Micheline. I know it seems like a long shot, but I wanted to look through any interviews she may have given or any other photos there may be about her. See if anything sparks.” She chewed on her lower lip, her gaze dipping to the computer screen. “And honestly, I was curious to see if I could find any resembla
