“No.”
“And are you...” Krista’s eyes flew open, as if his words had only just reached her. “You agree with me?”
He nodded. “Especially with the jerk and hotheaded idiot parts.”
At that, she ran into his arms. Shane caught her, swooped her up off her feet and kissed her, knowing he’d never be able to get enough of her. When he pulled back, he gazed into her lovely, sparkling eyes.
“I’m sorry I took off the way I did. I’m sorry I left you,” he said. His damn insecurities had got the better of him that day.
But none of that seemed to matter now. Not when Krista was back in his arms.
She grabbed his face and smacked a scorching kiss on his lips. “I want you, Shane McDermit.”
And damn if he didn’t want her back.
“I’ve missed you so much, Krista Gervais.”
They kissed again, that Rocky Mountain heat stirred and whipped up the fireball that he’d been too scared to hold. But now he grabbed it, lost himself in it—man alive, he even heard bells and whistles and—
“Move out of the way, love birds! Go get a room!”
Shane and Krista jolted apart. The bells and whistles were real. They were standing in the middle of the cycle lane, his hands up her T-shirt, fondling her breasts.
“We’re gonna get arrested,” Krista said, laughing. She readjusted her clothes and tugged him away to the beach. “So, um...where do we go from here?”
To the large double bed in his apartment—but he knew that wasn’t what Krista meant.
“This is where I wish I had a crystal ball,” Shane said, gazing down at their entwined fingers. Would he and Krista last the distance or were they only destined for a few hot weeks together and a cheerful,It was nice while it lastedparting of ways?
And did he really need to know the answer?
“I want to see where this thing we’ve started goes,” he said.
“Me too.” Krista looked up from their joined hands. “I want to see where this trail we’re on will lead us.”
And when she kissed him again, Shane no longer needed to know the answers to his future.
The fun would be in finding out all by themselves.
