Page 109 of Legacy

“Let’s go get cleaned up and have dinner with your parents.”

“Don’t sound so scared,” I said as I let him help me off the bed.

“Not scared. More worried this will be my last meal.”

“My parents love you. You know that, right?”

He frowned at me as we made our way to the shower.

“They do. But I’m going to dinner as the person seeing their daughter. Not the person who’s best friends with their son. It’s a little different.”

“Maybe. Or maybe not. Honestly, I don’t think they’re going to make it too weird. I mean, nothing’s really changed, right?”

He stared at me then as he turned on the shower, and I knew I was losing my mind because, of course, things had changed. I didn’t know where we were going or what would happen next, but I was about to have dinner with my parents and Callum. That meant something. I just didn’t know what at this point.

How was I just supposed to tell him that I was falling in love with him? Or probably had already done so.

I hadn’t meant to. I hadn’t meant for any of this to happen, but there was no going back.

And frankly, I didn’t want to go back. Nothing was like how I thought it would be when I had come home to Ashford Creek, but I wasn’t sure what I could have ever hoped for. A man I was falling for? He treated me like I was special. Not spun glass, not so fragile that I would fracture with a heavy breath or deep kiss. But someone valued.

My job would be forever changed, and I didn’t know what would happen next. Or how I was supposed to continue on as the sole owner of the accounting firm, but I was learning. And I would make it work. For Gregory’s legacy and my own.

My family was here. I was making friends.

Even Fiona was treating me decently.

I had found my home in Ashford Creek, and I had found my home in Callum Ashford.

I just needed to figure out exactly what to do with that.

Thankfully, my hair had made it through our intense session, impromptu as it was. So I fluffed it out, redid part of my makeup, and we were in his truck and on our way to my parents’ house, only a couple of blocks away, in a few minutes.

It was Ashford Creek, however, so everywhere was only a few blocks away.

“Why am I nervous? This is not my first time meeting your parents or going to a dinner where I’m meeting the parents of someone I’m seeing. And I’m fucking nervous.”

“I don’t know why that makes me so relaxed to hear, but it does.”

“Are you a sadist and I didn’t know?” he asked, raising a brow. “Maybe we should talk about that later.”

I pressed my thighs together and glared at him. “Really? You’re going to get me turned on before we head into my parents’ house? Mean.”

He looked down at my thighs, which he noticed were now pressed together, and smirked.

“At least you can hide your evidence.” He looked down at his crotch, and I held back a laugh at where his cock strained against his dark jeans.

“Well, think about baseball. Or whatever it is you need to think about. Because if you go in there walking with a hard-on and limp, my dad will murder you.”

“Thank you for that. I’m really glad that you’re so helpful here.”

He grumbled under his breath as he parked in front of my parents’ house, and I bit my lip.

“Okay. We passed the gauntlet of our siblings already, so we can do this. I mean, my parents are totally okay, right?”

“I thought you were the one that was supposed to be making me relax,” he said dryly as he undid my seatbelt and reached across the truck to unlock the door for me.

“Don’t hop out. You’re going to hurt yourself in those heels.”