I flopped back to the pillow. “We were having a moment.”
“We’re going to have a lifetime of moments.” He stared at the man zonked out next to me. “But this one is for Rizz.”
Cruz tugged on jeans and stomped on his boots.
I leaned over Ryatt’s chest and kissed his sternum. A slow smile curled his lips. He threaded his fingers through my hair, but he hadn’t opened his eyes.
“Cruz needs us to get up.”
“Cruz can fuck off. I’m staying in bed all day.” He gripped my ass.
“We’ll grab breakfast.” Cruz jerked a hoodie over his head and slipped on his cut.
I groaned and rolled off the bed. Ryatt leaned up on one elbow and stared at my ass as I bent over, picked my panties off the floor, and stepped into them.
Cruz gave me a quick kiss. “I’ll meet you in the chapel.”
“Make sure there’s coffee,” I mumbled.
He opened the door, paused, and glanced back at Ryatt. “If you take longer than five minutes, I’ll cockblock you the rest of the day.”
I hooked the band of my bra together and twisted it around. “That’s not very fair from the guy who already nailed me to the bed this morning.”
Ryatt threw his pillow at Cruz just as he closed the door. “No wonder he’s happy this morning.”
I plopped down next to him. “He is happy, but not because of this morning.”
Ryatt rested back on the pillow and furrowed his fingers through his hair. “I keep running back last night.”
“And?” Did he have regrets? My heart was in my throat.
He leaned up and softly kissed my lips. “And I want to sleep next to you every night. One day—” He stopped, shifted his gaze to the door, then slid his legs out of the sheets and stood from the bed. He grabbednew jeans from the drawer and tugged them on. “We better hurry.”
I stepped in front of him. “One day—”
He tucked my hair behind my ear. “One day—” He stared into my eyes. And staring into his was like stargazing. I was lost in the spark. “One day, I want the house Cruz talks about. One day, I want to get married and make babies with you. But I’m afraid to think about one day when I’m so…I don’t know. I don’t want to wait for one day because I’m afraid one day might never come.”
“Ryatt,” I fought and failed to hide my tears. “I don’t know what house Cruz is talking about, but we’ll need to be close to my parents. I’m not in a rush to have babies, but one day we’ll make my dad a grandpa and my mom a grandma.”
Cruz claimed he didn’t want babies, but maybe he’d change his mind when family wasn’t an F-word to him anymore because we were his family. I wound my arms around his neck. “We’re your family. Ryatt, I’m so fucking in love with you.” I didn’t need a marriage license. But one day I’d wear their rings, have their babies, and make our house a home.
Banging sounded on the window. I laughed. “Our five minutes is up.”
Ryatt grabbed one of the new black T-shirts and put it on along with his new cut.
“It looks good.” I pulled on a pink sweatshirt and tugged on my boots.
He laced his fingers with mine as we left the room. “I thought Cruz was an ass for putting so much effort into the MC. But I get it. Something hits different when I’m wearing the cut.”
“I don’t think I really understood it until you were taken. I have new perspective on what it means to be a Heller.”
He still held my hand as we headed into the chapel. The scent of coffee pulled me more than the fear of my boyfriend’s five-minute threat to keep me off Ryatt’s dick today. “I’ll be out in a minute. I need coffee.”
Steele stood behind the bar rinsing his cup. “How are you doing, sweetheart?”
I slid onto the stool. “I’m hungry, and I need coffee. Otherwise, life is blissfully perfect.”
He chuckled and poured coffee into the mug. “There’s some fruit in the fridge.”
