Page 156 of Finding Storm

“And what about all the nights after that?”

I pull back a touch and stare into his eyes. “You can stay for all of those too, if you want.”

The corners of his lips kick up into a smile, and it lights up my insides.

“Damn fucking straight I want. I’m here to stay, babe. I ain’t going anywhere ever again.”

Four Months Later

“So, where exactly are we going?” Stevie asks me for the tenth time since we got in my car fifteen minutes ago.

“I just want to show you something.”

“But why can’t you tell me what it is before we get there?”

“Babe, that kind of takes out the element of surprise. Has no one ever surprised you before?”

“Of course they have. I have a brother who liked to surprise me with all kinds of shit when we were kids. I never got over the trauma of finding a skunk in my bedroom when I was ten. Hence why I’m not keen on surprises.”

“Beck really did that?” I chuckle. “Put a skunk in your bedroom?”

She gives me a look. “You’ve met him. What do you think?”

“I think he’s funny as fuck—but not as funny as you, of course, babe,” I’m quick to say at her disgruntled expression.

“Good save,” she says.

I grin at her. “I thought so.”

I’ve been living in Lake Havasu for four months now, and I’ve never been as happy as I am here with Stevie. And I don’t see that changing anytime—ever.

I’ve been staying with Stevie in her room at the B&B in the part of the house her family occupies. Raze, Cash, and Levi have been renting rooms in the main B&B.

We just finished recording the album, so technically, the guys should probably be heading back to LA because they were only here for the writing and recording of the album. But none of them seem to be making any moves to leave at the moment.

And I’m just happy to have them here.

I don’t miss LA at all. But I miss everyone I left behind there.

Jake and Tru came to visit last month. It was good to see them. They absolutely loved Stevie, of course. She’s awesome.

I said I’d take Stevie to LA to visit at some point. She still needs to meet Tom, Lyla, Den, Simone, Stuart, Smith, and all the kids.

Stevie’s been in the studio a lot while we’ve been recording. She’s been so fucking supportive, and I love that about her.

I played her the finished songs a few days ago. The songs she’d inspired. Which is basically the whole album.

She loved them, and she wasn’t lying because she is nothing but honest.

She’d never blow smoke up my ass.

But she totally blew me after listening to those songs. And then I bent her over the mixing desk and took her hard and fast from behind.

The studio was empty at the time.

Stevie might have gotten a little more adventurous about where we have sex over the months that we’ve been together. But she’s not into exhibitionism.

And I’m not into anyone seeing her naked but me.