Page 27 of Claimed By the Feral Wolf
Now, Jacob stood against the wall in the bakery, watching the girls work. They were in constant motion but laughed and smiled the whole time.
Sage waved when she saw him, but the place was too busy for her to come talk to him.
“Grab a cup of coffee,” Simone said. “Then sit at our table.”
“Thank you.” The girls had put a table in one corner close to the kitchen they deemed theirs and had a sign saying “Reserved” for the owner on it. They had several other small tables with chairs in the place. Half of one wall was the counter with glass enclosures that they filled with delicious treats.
Sage rushed over to him, kissed his lips, and set a plate with a cinnamon roll on the table. He groaned at the sight of a cinnamon-speckled roll smothered in frosting. He’d never tasted anything as delicious as what the women made.
“You’re going to get me fat, woman,” he growled.
Sage giggled. “I’ll help you work it off. I have a few more minutes, and then I can leave. It got busy all of a sudden.”
“Go. We have time.”
For the next hour, Jacob drank a few cups of coffee, demolished the roll, relaxed, and talked to people. He would have never believed if someone had asked him six months ago that he’d be sitting there smiling.
The person that had changed all of that was handing a box of cookies to a young woman. He wouldn’t have ever been able to choose a perfect woman for himself. She was everything he could ever ask for and more.
He must have spaced out because she was standing next to his chair before he knew it, smiling down at him.
“I’m ready,” she said.
He stood and quickly kissed Sage’s lips before throwing his arbage away. He wrapped an arm around her waist and waved at everyone that called out to them.
Jacob pulled her tightly against his chest when they got to his truck.
“What’s wrong?” she asked and rubbed his back.
“I’m just so thankful the universe sent you to me.”
Sage kissed his chest. “I’m also thankful. I’ve been looking for you for a long time. I didn’t know what I was looking for at first, but I knew when my eyes opened, and you were there. It was like something settled in me.”
Hell, that was exactly how he felt.
He lifted her head and kissed her with all the love he felt at that moment. When he raised his head, she was flush with her eyes closed and her mouth swollen and red. He’d never seen anything more beautiful.
He lifted her in and snapped her seat belt. He got in and held her hand. “How about a picnic on our bed and then hours of loving?”
She giggled excitedly. “Yes. That sounds wonderful.”
“Then that’s what we’re going to do.”
And it wouldn’t be the first or last time it ever happened.
The End
