Yes! I can’t wait!
Blue
Same.
I have to go study for finals…
And you should too. Talk to you tomorrow? We can make plans then?
Blue
*sigh* Okay. Love you. All to pieces.
All to pieces.
CHAPTER 26
anna
Shane
You're a smart girl. You must see how this is going to play out. Blue's on the cusp of greatness. The NFL, Anna. It's everything he's ever worked for.
CHAPTER 27
blue
“Mmmm,” Anna moaned, as her tongue traced over my bottom lip. She shoved me backward onto the couch. I made no effort to fight her. Just happily fell over and took her with me. We’d both made it through finals and we were celebrating with the world’s hottest make-out session, right there in her family’s living room with only the glow of the TV and the colored lights of their Christmas tree.
I got four whole days to spend with her. I didn’t want to waste a minute of it. Lemon, Silas, and the boys were sound asleep in their beds, down the hall. Anna and I had tried watching a movie. But we hadn’t made it five minutes before our hands were all over each other. Along with our mouths.
She tugged on my bottom lip with her teeth.
“You’re killing me,” I said against her mouth.
She giggled. “I know. It’s so fun.”
I flipped us sideways, tucking her between my chest and the back of the couch. Her leg hooked over my hip and she shoved her hands into my hair. My hands were smashed between her back and the cushions. I told myself the fact that I could very distinctly feel her ribs was normal. It had been back when she was fourteen and she’d just lost her mom. She hadn’t been this thin a month ago. Not even close. Anna was a stress starver. When life got to be too much, she lost her appetite. She was anxious about something.
“The hashtag finally died, right?” I breathed when I came up for air. I knew it had. I kept a diligent eye on her social media since she refused to delete her accounts.
“Yes. Just shut up and kiss me.” She crashed her mouth over mine.
Her back arched and she pushed closer, her chest smashed against me. My fingers kept stopping when they landed on her bra hook. Feeling it there under her shirt was complete torture. All I had to do was slip my hand under her shirt, unhook it, and…
I groaned, balling her shirt in my fists.
How was I doing this for two and a half more years? Anna still wanted to wait until she was done with her vet tech degree.
Mind over matter. As long as you’ve got a future with her, you can do anything.I knew it was true. I was the third best QB in the nation. I hadn’t earned it without grit and determination. I spread my fingers wide against her mid back, pulling her closer.
And that’s when I felt it.
I didn’t stop. Just drew her to me, kissing her intensely, telling myself it was all in my head. Her fingers crawled up under the hem of my shirt, tracing circles around my belly button, taking my mind immediately off the palpitation I’d felt against her ribs.
“Good grief, woman,” I panted.
She dove right back in, kissing me harder. She was always like this the first time we were together after being apart. And this stretch had been our longest. With practices and finals, we hadn’t been able to make a visit work for two torturous weeks. Being with her tonight was ecstasy. I slid my tongue against hers and pulled her tighter.
