His or hers. It didn't matter.
But they'd be alone and that's what he held onto to hold himself back.
CHAPTER 10
CADDO
By the time they got back from the lake, Seaton was half asleep. He ended up carrying her from the bottom step of her porch into her bedroom. It was strange how easily he was able to open the front door with one hand. Having a nearly identical house made it easy. That, and holding Seaton in his arms was just that comfortable.
Their last day of camping had been crazy fun. The children had finally become acclimated to the lake and the camp. They ran around like crazy and Seaton had been caught up in their mania. She'd played just as hard as they had.
Nearly everyone there had mentioned how great Seaton was with children.
The pointed looks and hearty slaps on his back only drove it home.
He knew where everyone expected their relationship to go and he hoped it would, too.
He just wasn't going to push Seaton in any way.
He wasn't even going to nudge her in that direction.
Once inside, he put Seaton on the bed, taking the time to take her blouse off, thankful she was wearing a sports bra under itand under her denim shorts she wore a pair of boxer briefs with cartoon pandas on it.
It left him smiling as he drew the blanket over her, but it was her half-asleep expression that stopped him from leaving.
"Can you stay?"
How could he say no?
Sam shed his button-down shirt, jeans, socks and shoes and ended up with a very warm, sleepy woman wrapped around him.
Her head tucked into the side of his neck.
It was different... very different from cuddling up in their tent, but he fell asleep just as well and enjoyed his rest even more with her draped over his body.
He woke up before dawn,his internal clock nudging him awake before the sunrise colored the skies above San Antonio. Slowly disentangling himself from Seaton, he left her bed and made his way back home to shower and change before heading into the station house. He had a smile on his face. How else could he be after spending a whole weekend with Seaton.
He did stop for a moment on his porch before leaving for work.
He looked up and down the street, but he didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
It didn't stop him from feeling that there was something he wasn't quite seeing.
Something dark on the unseen horizon.
SEATON
When she woke up, she reached out an arm for Sam, but he wasn't there.
Grumbling, she turned onto her side and pulled Sam's pillow into her chest.
It still smelled like him, making her hug it closer and breathe in his scent.
Her phone chimed on the bedside table, and she reached out one arm to snag it off of the tabletop and bring it forward in front of her.
She saw a text message from Zharia.
Z: Hey! You're going to work today, too? Right?
