I love it.
And I want more of it.
As if he can sense that it’s going to get hot and heavy, he pulls back.
It wasn’t a long kiss, but it has my heart racing and desire swimming between us.
With a rough voice he says again. “Goodnight, Tessa. Lock the door.”
He forces himself to take a step back and then turns, but when he’s halfway down the stairs I rush toward him. “Killian?”He stops and glances at me. “The door won’t be locked, in case you’re roaming the halls tonight.”
My smile widens when I hear his groan, and then I head into my room, flopping on the bed. I kick my feet like a total dork, because this was the best night of my life.
I hear the ping of my phone, hoping it’s him, but the text is from Meredith.
Meredith
How are things?
I think I might be falling in love.
Meredith
That’s…wow, you? Are you okay?’
He took me on a date tonight. Dinner, a movie, then a kiss at my door. Mer, how do I stop myself from falling?
There’s a pause and I wait for some kind of words of wisdom from my best friend.
Meredith
You can’t. I tried with Jake and we saw how that turned out.
That’s what I was afraid of.
Meredith
Just know that even if the fall ends with pain, you’ll survive, and you can always cry on my shoulder.
Yeah, I just wish I could avoid the breaking.
eighteen
Killian
“Arodeo?” Everett asks, handing me a beer as we sit on Hazel’s porch.
“I need to bring people onto the ranch, let them see that all the rumors are lies.”
He shrugs. “I guess, but…a rodeo?”
“Tessa thinks it’s the best way to get other types of horse people there, not just race breeders. Plus the rodeo will turn a rather large profit if it goes to plan. The fuck do I know?” I say, exhaustion setting in.
We’ve been at Hazel’s all day for the second weekend in a row. She has more projects going on than I could ever imagine doing. Her primary bathroom is completely gutted, and she has to use the hall one until we finish it. The kitchen is stripped pretty much down to the studs, and she decided she wanted to remove a wall last time we were here. Thankfully, Everett put a stop to that idea—for now.
“I’ve learned after falling in love with Violet that there’s very little we won’t do for the women in our lives. I debated getting a goat again last week.” He takes a long drink from the bottle.
I want to comment on the love part because that doesn’t apply here. We both know that this can’t go anywhere so, I don’t need to worry about that.
