She gave him a playful push toward the door. “Haha, very funny.”
When they were downstairs next to his truck—or Billy’s truck that he was using—he put a hand on her arm. “Hey.”
“What’s up?”
“I don’t want you terrified. This… with you… It feels so good that you’ve got me pondering some life changes after one incredible night.”
“Oh.” She licked lips that had suddenly gone dry as the desert. “I do?”
“Yeah. You do. You have me rethinking my whole damned life, so please don’t be afraid of anything other than how quickly this is happening and how epic we might turn out to be.”
Was this really happening, or was she dreaming? “Epic, huh?”
“You never know unless you try, and I intend to go for it. That is… if you’re going for it with me.” He backed her up against the truck, pressing his aroused body to hers. “I was guilty as fuck for feeling so good today when the last few months have been nothing but one shitty day after another. But today… Today it was like the sun had come back out after a long, dark, cold winter. All thanks to you.”
Chapter 24
Sierra had never been more moved by anything in her entire life than she was by his beautiful words. As she tried not to cry, she rested her head on his chest and breathed him in. Not only was he handsome as all hell, but he smelled delicious, too. The scent was new to her, as was the sense of completion that came with him.
If this was what she’d spent all this time waiting for, he’d been worth the wait.
He broke the spell when he said, “Let’s get out of this cold.”
“Is it cold? I hadn’t noticed.”
Smiling, he held the door and kissed her before leaving her to get settled.
She couldn’t believe this was happening. It was finally happening, and if the feeling of elation that came with him was anything like Duke had felt for McKenzie, Sierra could honestly say she got it now. She got why he’d gone off the deep end over her and had changed his whole life to accommodate her and her son.
In fact, she owed him an apology for being such a skeptical bitch during the first weeks they were together, when she’d begun to feel like she’d lost him or something.
“Everything okay?” Morgan asked as he drove them the short distance to the Wayfarer. In the summer, they could’ve walked. In December, it was too damned cold to walk anywhere.
“Yes, of course.”
“Did I say too much just now?”
“Not at all. No one has ever said anything like that to me before.”
“I find that hard to believe.”
“Well, believe it.”
“That’s a crying shame, but I’m secretly glad I got to you before anyone else snapped you up and out of reach. That would’ve been the biggest shame of all, if you weren’t single when I first saw you.”
“You first saw me months ago.”
“Believe me. I know.”
“So what’re you saying?”
“I’m saying that the first time I ever saw you, I almost swallowed my tongue.”
She sputtered with laughter. “Is that even possible?”
“I wouldn’t have thought so until I laid eyes on you.”
His hand on her thigh set her on fire.
