I froze for a second before melting into the touch. The one I’d longed for far too long.
“How are you feeling today?” he asked. “I didn’t hurt you or anything, right?”
“No?” I answered, more a question than a statement.
He groaned in response, knowing me far too well.
“What we’renotgoing to do, beta, is overthink this.” Jack’s tone was firm. “Even if it’s a new dynamic, this is everything to me, too. I promise.”
Tears blurred my vision, and I had to blink them away.
“You really mean that? You want this with me?”
“And her. Yes,” he clarified.
Jack was always the kind to make sure there was no miscommunication, except when it came tous, apparently. I truly had no idea he’d felt the same all this time.
Yet he’d shown me last night.
I turned over in his arms, and he immediately buried his face in my neck, breathing me in like he couldn’t get enough.
“You always smell so good,” he growled. “But right now, it’s even better.”
Could my scent have really changed? Had I guarded myself so much that it muted it?
It didn’t matter now because I had him.
“We have to pack up our stuff and move over to the guest wing,” Jack said. “That way we’re all together.”
“You want me to move in here?”
“I know it’s not exactly traditional, especially having our mom here, and our dads when they’re home. But the estate was always meant for multiple families. That’s why it’s so big. Mom’s running it in the meantime, but we all knew I had no intention of truly leaving. This is home. It’ll be mine someday.”
“And Cole’s,” I reminded him.
He flopped back on the bed and let out a sigh. “If he stays around. I don’t know how this is going to work. She has a job back in the city. He told me they work together, and we have no intention of leaving.”
“I don’t want a pack like your parents,” I admitted quietly. “I love them, but I couldn’t imagine being alone all the time, or it just being us until they decide to sweep into town from time to time.”
“We shouldn’t borrow trouble,” Jack said, scrubbing a hand over his face. “She’s never said anything against staying. Maybe if we show her how good Pine Ridge is, she might want to stick around.”
“Which would leave Cole,” I sighed. “Do you think she’ll be okay with that?”
He shrugged. “I guess we’ll find out.”
Jack sat up, running his hands through his hair, trying to wake up, before gesturing toward the bathroom.
“Come take a shower with me. Then we can go to your house and get your things if you’re okay with moving.”
“Wherever you are is where I want to be,” I promised. I wasn’t attached to my house, it was just a necessity. I could always rent it out or something.
His smile stole my breath.
He stood, dropping the blanket. It was a stark reminder that we were both still very much naked.
This man might be the death of me.
His cock twitched when he noticed I was staring. It was still early, but it was already hard, begging for attention.
