“Aw, so romantic.” She dragged him close for a kiss. “Why is this so scary?”
He felt so much for this woman it staggered him. “Because it’s real.”
“I want so much for it to be.”
“Me too.”
They stayed that way, hugging without words. Until Marlie pulled away to remind him, “We can’t even stay here and celebrate in private. We have the Mavericks game tomorrow.”
“It’s hockey, Marlie. I didn’t forget.”
She pretend-glared at him. “Seriously?”
He smiled. “Have I told you how much I love it when you get mean?”
“Then be a bad boy and take me to bed.”
“Yes, ma’am.” He kissed her, stripping her naked, and walked her backward to the bed. “But just for the record, you did see Lars’ and Connor’s cocks earlier.”
“Um, yes?”
“I’m so much bigger, aren’t I?”
“Yes, Demon, so much.”
Satisfied, he took his future wife to bed and pleased her until he’d exhausted her to sleep.
He slept next to her, content with the world and everything in it.
And, like the perfect partners they would forever be, they spent the drive home the next day plotting on how to break the news to their families, and friends, that they’d fallen in love.
CHAPTER 37
While Damon yelled at her brothers on the ice, and the guys kept whizzing on and off the ice with line changes that made her dizzy, Marlie sat in the stands with Jeff and described last night’s party in detail, holding back the mutual lovefest with Damon.
Jeff’s eyes kept growing larger, especially when she told him she’d seen primo Ice Raptor penis and two sets of amazing boobs. She had a feeling Bubbles routinely showed them off near a pole, but when she told him who the other woman was, he nearly fell off his seat.
“Do you realize how envious Ed is going to be when he finds out you saw Latisha’s tits?”
“I know.”
Jeff squeezed her in a hug and whispered, “And Lars Kels and Connor Vashevski? Were they hung?”
“Yes. Beautiful, but not better than Damon.”
“Of course not.” Jeff pulled back, his eyes shining with excitement. “All that, and you spoke with the owner, in the team suite, watching the game. I am so jealous!”
“I don’t know why. You got to spend your weekend with my brothers.” She laughed. The big fat liar. She’d done a lot of thinking and talked with Damon about it on the ride home. She loved her family, no question. And Jeff was a part of that.
It would be a dream come true to have Jeff as an actual brother-in-law. Though if Jeff and Will ever split up, life would be ugly. But borrowing trouble had never helped anyone. And Damon had agreed. Her brother and Jeff had to make their own decisions, and she’d support them both.
But damn it, she’d make Jeff pay for holding back on her. His best freaking friend.
“I didn’t want to mention it until I got home, but I met some pretty famous people while I was at the party. It wasn’t my scene, really, but it was fun. And I was showing you guys off to one woman when she saw a picture of Will. Jeff, you are not going to believe this, but that actress on the sitcom with the mechanic?”
He frowned. “The pretty brunette he likes?”
Not even trying to pretend he didn’t know all of her brother’s likes and dislikes. Now that she knew to look for it, their secret love affair was blindingly obvious. “Yeah, that one. Well, she’s coming to Hope’s Turn for Christmas. I got him a date with her!”
