“It’s okay, I think you might have overtaken me as her favorite person.”
“Never. You’re her hero.”
“Can I be yours too?” he asks, kissing the corner of my mouth.
“Always have been.”
He rolls me onto my back, deepening the kiss as the sound of the wind rustling through the trees surrounds us.
I shiver as his hand slides from my hip and under my jersey—with his name and number on, of course.
“Can’t get enough of you, Casey,” he groans as his lips trail across my jaw and down my throat.
“Same.”
He shifts so he’s between my legs and I hook one around his back, allowing him to grind against me where I need him most.
“You drive me crazy,” he continues, building me higher withhis words as well as the movements of his body. “You’ve changed my life in a way I never thought I’d experience.”
“Kodie,” I gasp as he pulls back and gazes down at me.
His eyes are dark and full of desire. His lips are glistening and swollen from our kisses.
“Casey,” he rasps, his eyes searching mine. “I’m…I’m falling in love with you.”
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KODIE
Iwill never forget the glassy, wide green eyes staring up at me as those words spill from my lips.
They’ve been teetering on the edge for days, desperate to be released.
But this time, I couldn’t hold them back.
She looks so beautiful under the soft light of the fairy lights I’ve covered my truck in.
I shake my head, unable to believe where I am and what I’ve done.
All for her.
Everything is for her.
“Kodie,” she whispers, bringing me back to the here and now. I flinch when her warm palm covers my cheek, her thumb grazing my skin tenderly.
“I’ve been falling for you from a distance for years. But nothing could have prepared me for how hard I’d fall when you were right in front of me.”
I exhale as if her words are like a physical blow to the chest.
“Casey.”
“It’s crazy,” she whispers.
“Yeah,” I agree. “This, you…none of it was a part of my plan, but now that you’re here, I can’t imagine anything else. I want you by my side, Casey. I want you in my bed. I want you sitting front row at my games, wearing my jersey, and I want to have you waiting for me when I’m done. I don’t care whether we win or lose; knowing I get to go home with you every night means I’ll be celebrating.
"You’re perfect, everything I didn’t know I wanted or needed in my life. And you’re mine. All.” Kiss. “Fucking.” Kiss. “Mine.”
Her hands slide down my sides until she grips my hips, tugging me closer. Or at least, she tries to.
