“What are you thinking?” Holt asks.
I bite back a grin. “Just about all the blessings coming my way.”
“So many are coming your way, sweetheart.”
“I mean, think of all the Kelvin McCoy tickets.”
“Fuck,” Holt says, his body shaking with his suppressed chuckle.
I curl up against him even more and laugh. “I’m just kidding.”
“You probably aren’t, is the thing.”
“You know what I heard?” I ask.
“What’s that?”
“I heard he has an older brother who’s hotter and way sexier than he ever thought about being.”
Holt brushes a strand of hair out of my face. “Is that so?”
I nod. “And I also heard he closed a major deal today, and that warrants a celebration.”
“That’s all true. But did you hear that the brother’s girlfriend is the person who brought the deal home? She needs celebrated too.”
Pride fills my body and mixes with the heat pulsing through my veins.
We make such a good team.
I can feel Holt’s cock thickening beneath my hip. His gaze heats.
My body whimpers.
“In any case,” I tell him, “I think we definitely need to celebrate.”
He slips his hand up my shirt and cups my breast. “I like the way you think.”
I stare up at him and take in every inch of his gorgeous face.
I hope he likes the way I think. Because I have tons of ideas for the next fifty years.
Epilogue
Six months later …
Holt
“Good morning, gorgeous,” I say to Blaire as I enter the den.
She looks up at me from her seat on the chair and smiles. The glasses she got over the winter make her look so studious andsofucking sexy.
“Good morning to you.” She places the binder she’s looking at onto the coffee table. Her arms stretch overhead. The edge of my T-shirt she slept in rises and gives me a peek at a swath of skin at her hip.
Mornings are my favorite time of day. Waking up to the sun rising and reminding me that my life includes Blaire is like a little gift that just keeps on giving.
My life before her was busy. It was filled with motions and things and places and to-do lists. It was filled with people too—people I cared about. People I loved.
I enjoyed my life before Blaire. It was all I knew.
