“Do you?”
“Hayes?”
“Princess.” He squeezed my hands. “Do you love me?”
“Yes!” I cried.
I’d never seen him smile like this before. “My family is big on saying ‘I love you’ ‘cause we’re like that. Ma texts it to me all the time. Pops, you just saw him, he says it and he shows it. So I’ve said it a bunch, to a bunch of people because we’re a big ass family.”
He reached out and swiped my damp cheek.
“But I’ve never said it to a woman before,” he admitted. “Only you, Cassidy Trout. Will you marry me and become Cassidy Wilder?”
“You can’t marry me just to change my name.”
“I was marrying you, whatever your last name. I was just going to give you a little time. Maybe a week.”
That made me smile, even just a little. “A week?”
“You’re marrying me today. Now.”
My eyes widened. “Now?”
“Now.”
“I can’t marry you now!”
“Colt’s a Justice of the Peace. He married Trig and Ellie. Everyone’s here. It’s happening.”
“Hayes.”
“Do you love me? Do you want to be with me?” he asked.
I remembered what Katie had said. Just feel, don’t think. “Yes.”
My heart skipped a beat and I couldn’t help but smile. I did want to be with Hayes. I did love him. Was this crazy? Definitely. But he and I didn’t seem to do anything normally.
His gaze raked me over. “There’s just one thing to do before we go out there.”
“What?”
He set his hand out in front of him, palm up. “Hand over those panties.”
My cheeks heated. My pussy clenched. I had a Pavlovian response to him, getting hot and horny when he lowered his voice like that. I could say my safeword and I’d be able to keep them, but he knew what I needed and I trusted him.
If I could trust him with my body, I could trust him with my heart.
So when we went outside and Colt officiated our impromptu wedding, with the entire Wilder clan in attendance, I wasn’t wearing any panties.
17
HAYES
One week.We spent one week after we said our “I dos” and kissed in front of everyone that mattered on the ranch. Buck knew Cassidy wouldn’t be working. We fucked, we talked, we ate casseroles someone left on my back doorstep every morning. All of that, we did naked. When I needed to give her time to recover from all the fucking her pussy was getting, we rode horses. ATVs, too.
But we didn’t leave the property.
I was greedy and wanted her all to myself. I wanted to get to know her now that I knew who she really was.I also needed to figure out what we were going to do once word got out.
