"Me too," he murmurs in my ear.
I lift my face to his, trying not to smile. "So…"
"So?" He arches his eyebrows.
The butterflies in my stomach have a full-on war. I tease, "When are you making me an honest woman?"
He chuckles. "You'll know when you know."
I bite my smile.
He kisses my forehead, admitting, "I need you to help me with the paperwork for the school. Permits. Taxes. All that shit I don't understand."
I laugh. "Of course I'll help."
"You're the best thing that ever happened to me," he declares.
"You're the best thing that's happened to me too," I reply.
We make love until we're breathless, then we do it all over again. The next morning, the sun filters through the gauzycurtains. Wyatt's sprawled across the bed with an arm draped possessively over my waist.
I trace the scar on his shoulder, remembering how it tells a story of a bull he conquered and the mistake he survived.
He stirs, pulling me closer. "You keep touching me like that, sugar, I'm never going to let you get out of this bed."
"Wyatt?"
He turns and pushes a lock of my hair behind my ear. "What's going on in that pretty head of yours?"
"Were you serious last night? About the school and giving up riding?" I ask.
His expression turns solemn. "Never been more serious about anything."
"You'll be an amazing instructor," I offer.
He grins. "Thanks."
I add, "But you'll be an even more amazing father one day."
A smile explodes on his lips, and he cages his body over me.
I squeal.
He pushes my thigh toward my chest, slides inside me, and declares, "That's the plan, sugar. So let's practice making those babies."
30
Wyatt
One Day Later
Itry to get a grip, reminding myself that I've climbed onto two-thousand-pound angry bulls, been flung to the ground like a rag doll, and survived my father's wrath.
I curse myself at the thought of him.
I take a deep breath, wipe my sweaty palms on my jeans, and stare at the dark-mahogany door. It's as solid as the man behind it. Jacob's voice rumbles inside, and each second I stand here feels like an hour.
He has to give me his blessing.
