“I need you to wake up.”
“No. Sleep.”
She chuckles and kisses my chest, but doesn’t nuzzle in to go back to sleep. “We have to go back to the other house.”
I crack an eye open. The sun is still down, and some of the candles’ batteries have died.
But my woman is in my arms, so everything is perfect.
“I’m happy here,” I tell her.
“I need to use the bathroom,” she whispers. “And I think I heard something scamper above us in the attic.”
“It’s not a ghost.”
She snorts. “I think it’s a squirrel or something.”
“It’ll go to sleep if we do.”
“Get up.”
I sigh deeply and drag my hand down my face. “Fine.”
“Come on. If we hurry, we don’t even have to get dressed. We can just scurry over there, and no one will see us.”
I lift an eyebrow and pull her to me. “No. No one sees you naked but me. Ever.”
“Well, then, come on.”
I drag on my slacks—no underwear—and she just loops the sheet from the bed around her like a toga, and we leave the bedroom, headed for the front door. I hear the noise above us, too. It’s probably squirrels or maybe a raccoon.
I won’t suggest bats. No need to scare her.
A few seconds later, we make it inside the other house, and Jules makes a beeline for the bathroom.
I open the fridge for a bottle of water and grin when I see that someone dropped off some food for us. It was probably my mom.
When I get back to the bedroom, Jules is already in bed. Dressed in one of my T-shirts, she’s waiting for me to join her.
“Come snuggle.” She holds her hand out for mine, and I get naked once more, then climb between the sheets and scoop her to me. “That’s better.”
“I have to go back to work later today,” I whisper against her hair as my lips drift back and forth.
“I know. I should, too.”
“Maybe in a couple of months, we can carve out some time for a honeymoon. Where do you want to go?”
She pulls back just a bit to look up at me. I’ll never get over how her blue eyes shine in the moonlight.
“Frankly, I’d love to take some time off together and stayhere.Work on the house, spend time at the river, and have all the sex in the universe.”
“That’s a whole lot of sex.”
“You’re up for the challenge.”
I smirk and nudge her nose with mine. “You bet your ass I am. We can always take a trip later, if you want.”
“Where would you like to go?” she asks. Her fingertip drifts over my jawline, and it makes me a little drunk. “If you could go anywhere?”
