“Missed you too, which is funny right? It’s not like we went anywhere.”
I pull back to see her face, looking for any uncertainty. All I see is warm eyes and a gentle smile looking back at me.
“I found out something interesting from Aster,” she says as we dance.
“She has a knack for that. She’s the reasonIzdidn’t think Case was crazy when he told her about the prophesy.”
Blair cocks her head. “Really? Though, I guess that makes sense. Sheisa Seer.”
My brows jump. “She told you that too?”
She nods. “Yeah. That’s not the interesting part, though it was a surprise. Remember the psychic who gave me the online tarot reading before I accepted my uncle’s offer?”
“Yeah…”
“Her name was Starchild.” My steps stutter and for the second time in as many minutes, we come to a stop.
“You’rekiddin’ me?”
She shakes her head, a small smile appearing. “Nope. I had no idea that she was from Wyatt’s ranch.”
“I guess you wouldn’t. What are the chances?”
“Probably about the same as you and me ending up here years after you first saw me in Boston,” she replies.
Guess the mountain’s recruiting outside help these days.
I pull her in closer, tighter, my body drawn to hers like a magnet with its own force field as we sway together to the music.
“I was thinkin–”
I cut her off, the words coming out of my mouth before I even realize it. “Do you want to meet her? We could do that. I could take you there.”
She cocks her head to the side. “How did you know that’s what I was going to say?” Bouncing a shoulder, I grin. “Aster said she lives at Bull Mountain Ranch in Spring Haven. I remember driving through there on my way to Timber Falls. I would like to meet her though. Maybe get another reading, an in-person one this time.”
“Does that mean you–” I stop but Blair reads me like a book and slides a hand up to rest on the side of my neck. My pulse jumps and my body burns from head to toe, every cell of my body attuned and tied to hers.
“I’m always going to be honest with you, Sutton, because that's what you’ve always been with me. I’m not surewhatI believe right now.” My heart sinks and I shift my gaze over Blairs shoulder to give myself the mental space to take a moment. Sensing me closing myself off a little, she flexes her fingers and brings her other hand up, forcing my eyes back to hers. “Let me get this out, I have a feeling you want to hear this.”
I let out the breath I didn’t know I was holding and nod. “OK.”
“I’m telling you I don’t know what to believe because thereissomething strange going on. Not you, you’re amazing, wonderful, caring, and thoughtful. You’re all of the things I’ve always wanted in a partner. Even the other night when you told me you’d wait as long as it took, that made me want you more.”
“But?”
“I’m not sure there is a but. It’s just my nature to look at the evidence. I don’t work on maybes, could be’s or should be’s. I go by what I can see,” she lifts up on her toes to touch her lips to mine, “and what I can feel.”
I chase her lips as she goes to move away, tightening my arms around her as she whimpers into my mouth, my need for her jumping from hot to raging inferno.It takes everything I have to end the kiss and hold both of us upright.
“What can you see, gorgeous?” I rasp.
“You, my perfect man who thinks he’s anything but, who confessed your perceived flaws to me on our first date and who has never hidden away from the fact that you like me.”
“I more than like you,” I reply. “And that has nothin’ to do with the mountain or the Call, and everythin’ to do withyou.
“I know, Sutton. It was something that crossed my mind when you first told me, wondering whether you wanted me because of the Call or you just wantedme.”
“It’s always been you, gorgeous. You had me at first look–even when you didn’t know I existed.” I tell her, meaning every word.
