AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Good morning, Banks.”
I smiled at her. “Good morning, Lamise.”
“Things have taken an unexpected but pleasant turn,” she said.
Laughter spilled out of me. “You could say that again.”
Lamise’s fingers were in my hair at the back of my head, her eyes roaming over my face, questions lingering in them.
Not wanting to ignore something that might be bothering her, I cut to the chase. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah.”
“You look like you’ve got something on your mind,” I noted.
Moving her head slowly from side to side, sheexplained, “I just think I’m still trying to come to grips with all of this. I didn’t expect I’d ever find you. You’re the best surprise.”
I understood exactly what she was saying. There was this edge of disbelief that I’d been feeling recently when it came to her, and it felt good to know I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t seem to grasp how I’d gotten so lucky.
“The feeling is mutual, darling.”
She melted beneath me. “Mmm. Don’t ever stop saying that word.”
“What if I have to stop, so I can go downstairs to make you breakfast?” I asked.
“Then make sure you use that word when you let me know it’s ready,” she answered.
“I can do that,” I promised. “Speaking of which, I should probably get myself down there, if we’re going to manage to eat before Rhys is up.”
“Okay.”
I gave Lamise another kiss before I pulled out, and the two of us got ourselves out of bed. Before she took off to the bathroom to get herself cleaned up, I reached for her wrist and stopped her.
“What’s going on?”
I hesitated, hoping she wouldn’t be upset. “I want you in my bedroom, but I’m going to get us a new bed first. We’ll stay here until then. Is that okay with you?”
Something washed over her face as she took in my words and put them together. Following a beat of silence, she replied, “Yeah. Yeah, I’m okay with that.”
I smiled at her. “Good.” After giving her another kiss, I said, “I’ll meet you downstairs, darling.”
She giggled as she walked away, and I loved that I could make her so happy with just a single word.
The languid pace we’d experienced in bed continued throughout the morning. Maybe it was the change in things between us, but I wasn’t in a rush to make it out the door to work. I knew I had to go—especially now that I had to work on this case for Lamise—but I’d have been lying if I said I wasn’t moving slowly on purpose.
We had breakfast together, Rhys woke up, and the three of us spent some time with one another before I finally got myself ready to leave.
Just as I was about to walk out the door, my phone rang. Pulling it out of my pocket, I was surprised to see Pax’s name on the display. “Hey, man. What’s going on?” I greeted him.
“Where are you?” he asked.
“I’m just leaving the house now,” I told him. “Everything okay?”
“Stay there. I’ve got something I need to show you, and Lamise should probably check this out, too,” he returned.
“You’ve got something already?” I asked.
“I was at the dog park this morning.”
