‘Daisy,’ he whispered and she whimpered. He felt the sound down to his bones. ‘I want you so bad.’ Honesty. It was all he had to give her. His raw, honest words.
Her hands were in his hair, tugging. ‘Same.’
Same.
What a gift to have his feelings reciprocated.
He groaned and kissed her again, deeper, his tongue sliding against hers, his fingers slipping into her hair. She was lips and breath and she tasted like honey, sweet and earthy at once. He wanted to lap her up.
He was about to haul her onto him when he suddenly remembered where they were, the hardwood floor beneath them, the counter at their back, the smell of flowers surrounding them. He pulled away, panting and Daisy was doing the same. She leaned her forehead against his.
‘Woah,’ she breathed.
‘Yeah…We probably shouldn’t do this here,’ he managed to say. Even though he wanted to go right back to kissing her and possibly never stop.
‘I guess you’re right. We are kinda in the middle of the store.’
‘While it’s open.’
‘And you have a puppy in your lap.’
‘We shouldn’t subject her to this.’
Daisy laughed and the sound lit him up. And he was so damn relieved that her reasons for stopping were puppy-related and not something deeper.
Neither of them said they shouldn’t do this anymore.
No one said this was a bad idea.
Daisy wasn’t putting the brakes on this for any reason other than location, and he was so far past his ability to stop this moving train that he was willing to lay down in front of it and let it destroy him.
He wanted her too much.
‘Looks like we stopped just in time,’ Daisy said, gesturing to where Kira and Bennett stood outside the door. She waved at them through the glass.
‘I guess so.’ Elliot stood and reached a hand to Daisy to help her up. They both dusted the dirt from their pants as Kira and Bennett walked in.
‘What are you guys up to… Oh, my goodness,a puppy!!’ Elliot had a feeling a lot of his conversations from now on were going to go like this. Goldie was, after all, the cutest puppy ever.
‘This is Goldie,’ Daisy said, beaming like it was her puppy too. Like they were a little family. Elliot loved that a bit too much.
‘She is so precious! Where did you get her?’ Kira cooed, reaching over to scratch Goldie’s head. Elliot could swear the dog smiled in her sleep.
‘Second Chance, of course. Shawn said she was left under a car with her siblings.’
Kira’s face transformed into something so outraged and so sad at the same time, Elliot was afraid of what would happen next. Apparently, so was Bennett.
‘Babe, we can’t.’
‘But they wereabandoned!’
‘We can’t take in any more animals! You just brought home three baby goats.’
‘They werealsoabandoned.’
Bennett sighed like a man resigned to his fate when Elliot decided he should probably chime in.
‘Actually, Goldie was the last one. The whole litter has been adopted.’
