He groaned and lifted his head. “I love you,” he repeated.
Stroking the nape of his neck, my right leg still wrapped around his hip, I replied, “I love you more.”
Jared grinned, that wicked sexy grin that made my heart beat fast. “Not possible.”
“You saved me, Jared.” Tears of happiness burned my eyes. “In more ways than one.”
Suddenly, his smile dropped, his expression fierce. “You saved me right back. No man has ever been prouder to call a woman his wife. And I have felt that way long before you were ever in my bed.”
Joy and thrill suffused me. “Really?”
“Aye, really.”
“You should know I knew I had feelings for you when we got married,” I confessed.
“You should know I also had feelings for you when we got married, but I was a clueless stubborn bastard too stupid to realize it.”
I laughed and Jared grinned, pulling me into his embrace. He buried his face in my neck and groaned, squeezing me tight.
“I love you,” I repeated because I just couldn’t get enough of saying it now that I was allowed to.
Jared lifted his head to whisper in my ear, “Tha gaol agom ort.”
I pulled away in surprise. “What was that?”
“Gaelic.” His stunning gaze roamed between my eyes and my mouth. “Granddad taught me.”
“What does it mean?”
“I love you. But a better translation is ‘my love is upon you.’”
Emotion thickened my throat. “That’s so beautiful.”
“Not as beautiful as you,” he whispered hoarsely.
“Say it again.”
“Tha gaol agom ort.”
“Ha g-eul …”
“Agom ort.”
“Ah-kum orsht?”
Jared nodded as I repeated it correctly.
I bit my lip against a cheesy grin. “Your granddad was kind of a secret romantic.”
My husband brushed his thumb over my lower lip. “He loved my grandmother until the day he died. He never touched another woman after her death. Couldn’t even contemplate loving another woman.” Jared swallowed hard, and I realized it was against emotion. “I never truly understood that … until you.”
Oh wow.
“You better call Georgie.” I curled my fingers into his shirt, almost ripping the buttons. “Because you’re going to be late this morning. Very, very late.”
Jared grinned wolfishly and then picked me up like I weighed nothing to haul me into the house.
We didn’t even make it past the kitchen before he was on me. Inside me.
