He kissed her, slipping his tongue inside her mouth and curving it around hers. Then, slowly, he slipped the rest of the way inside her.
It was only then that he lifted his head, and the words finally slipped free.
“I love you, Bonnie.”
Tears immediately filled her eyes, air stuttering from her chest. “I love you too, Zane. I think I’ve loved you for a long while.”
He took a moment to breathe. To absorb her words and let them fill every part of him. Change him. Make her his.
He started to move, pulling out and sliding back in.
She whimpered, her hands now on his shoulders, fingers digging into his skin. “Zane.”
“I’ve got you.”
He kept moving. Thrusting in and out. Every time he returned to her, it was like coming home. Because somewhere along the line, this womanhadbecome his home. The only damn home he wanted or needed.
He cupped her breast, rolling her nipple with his thumb as he moved.
Her breathing shortened and grew louder. Faster.
Beautiful. All of her. The sounds she made, the way her brow furrowed in that cute fucking pout he couldn’t look away from.
He lowered his hand to her core and swiped her clit with his thumb.
Her cry shuddered through the room.
He did it again, this time rolling her clit in a circle.
She started to buck. She was close.
“Zane,” she whispered.
He latched onto her throat, sucking. Then she screamed, her walls clenching his cock as she broke.
And fuck, she felt good around him. He wanted to keep going. To feel this, feelher, for longer, but he couldn’t. Two more thrusts and he crashed and burned with her, his cock pulsing inside her body.
Long seconds of stillness passed where neither of them spoke or moved…they just breathed.
Until, finally, she touched her forehead to his chest. “God, I love you.”
“You have no idea, honey.” He kissed the top of her head.
And she really didn’t. Because how could anyone understand this feeling inside him?Hebarely understood it. Only knew it was fierce and all-consuming and utterly unshakable.
CHAPTER 28
Bonnie tried hard to focus on Addie. She was telling a rock-climbing story. One that Bonnie absolutely should be listening to, just like the other women.
But it was hard to concentrate when the guys were huddled around the gym’s front desk, talking about the remaining criminals who needed to be found and detained.
Not just talking about them. Studying profiles and photos. Talking about possible hiding places. Well, a hiding place for Monty… The rest had most likely hightailed it out of Amber Ridge.
The gym blinds were down, and pizza and drinks littered the tables, but none of that lightened her mood.
It had been five days since Indie was shot. Her sister was still in the hospital, mostly for observation because of the pregnancy. Indie had people with her. Colt. Holden. Clara. But their absence tonight felt big and heavy.
Bonnie wished she’d been able to visit her sister every day, but with Monty still out there, evasion was necessary. Plus, there was no way she wanted to bring danger to her sister’s doorstep again. The only reason they were at the gym tonight was becauseZane needed to talk to the guys, and he didn’t want to bring anyone to the cabin and risk the location.
