“Where’s Brie?”
“Out somewhere. A pop-up thing with some friends. Did you find time to talk to Cami and Tori?”
“I didn’t even see them today. It’s like we’re on different planets.”
“If they had a problem, they’d tell you. I think it’s going to be all right.”
“You’re right.” I wanted to believe she was right. I tugged at the zipper on the fleece. “Get this out of my way.” A moment passed where we stared at each other before she pulled the zipper down. She was bare underneath. Loved it. “Much better.”
“It would be better if you got under the covers with me.”
I pressed a kiss to her forehead and the tops of both breasts. “Tell me what I’m going to do to you under those covers.”
Laughing, she said, “I don’t have a plan. I just want?—”
“No plan? How inefficient.” I plugged in her phone and then mine. Switched off the lamp. Checked my alarm. Took off my watch. Rounded the bed. As soon as I slipped between the sheets, I yanked her across the bed and into my arms. “I expect more from you, Dr. Aldritch.”
She reached for me, palming my cock over my boxers. “I’ll do better next time.”
I drew circles around her nipples while I kissed the line of her shoulder. “You’re so soft right here.” I gave her a light pinch. “Love that about you.”
Whit pushed my boxers down and pulled me on top of her. She settled her hands on my sides as she opened her legs. “I missed you today. Last night too.”
I rocked against her. She was hot and wet, and once again, I wasstunnedthat I’d found her. That this woman existed in my life against the most ridiculous of odds was almost unbelievable. There were moments when I just didn’t believe that I could keep her. “I missed you too. Sorry about last night.”
“You’re not allowed to apologize for that. It’s residency.”
“I’m gonna do it anyway.” I pushed inside her with a groan they must’ve heard down the street. “Fuck, Whit. Don’t kill me all at once, honey.”
She let out a sleepy laugh as I gripped the soft flare of her hip. “I love when you’re all over me like this. When you—when you just hold me down and all I can do is take it.”
I answered that with a slow, heavy thrust that had her back bowing off the bed. “Do you want to get married?”
She blinked up at me. “Do I—what?”
“Someday,” I added, although today would work too. “Do you want to get married someday?”
Another blink. “Maybe. I don’t know. Do you?”
We stared at each other as I drove into her. As she cried out. As her nails sank into my biceps. “I think so.”
She curled a hand around the back of my neck and pulled me down for a kiss. “Someday,” she whispered.
I leaned down to tease her nipples for a minute. It was that or asking her to marry me right now. I didn’t want to ask until I was positive she’d say yes.
I ran a hand from her jaw down around her neck, over her breasts, and along the line of her torso to her belly. I lingered there a moment before sliding over her clit. “Do you want to have kids? Someday?”
She rocked up against me as I thrummed her clit. “I haven’t really thought about it.”
On a gasp, she broke apart and all I could do was follow. I growled into her neck as my body coiled tight and heat blasted through me. “Killing me here, honey.”
Whit murmured some sleepy, sated response as I collapsed on top of her. We stayed like that for a few minutes while my heart banged around in my chest. She held me tight, her hands mapping my back and shoulders. Eventually, she escaped to the bathroom. It took everything in me to stay awake until she returned.
When she did, she curled up beside me with her head tucked under my chin. A few minutes passed before she asked, “Doyouwant kids? Someday?”
I could’ve given her an oblique answer. I could’ve made it sound like I wasn’t talking about our life a few years from now. But I didn’t want to do that anymore. “I want what you want.”
“Was it Salas’s baby? Is that what made you think of this?”
