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“Say it.”
I roll my eyes. “Say what?”
He places the tip of his finger at the edge of my jaw, just below my ear. Sparks skitter over me as he lightly drags it across the edge of my jaw, down to my chin, which he captures between his forefinger and his thumb, the tip of that thumb grazing below my bottom lip.
“You know you want to.”
The truth of his words spears through me, and I can’t even play coy anymore.
“I love you, Tuck.”
His eyes flash, like he loved hearing those words even more than he expected to. I know I loved saying them even more than I expected to. Then, his lips are pressed to mine.
I moan with relief into his mouth. His taste, his smell, the gentle firmness of his lips caressing mine—I’ve missed him so much, and it’s only been a couple days.
I relax into his body, leaning against his hard torso as he slants our kiss deeper, so deep that I drown in it, lost in his touch and his smell and his warmth and happy to stay lost there.
It wasn’t hard to tell Tuck that I love him. It felt right. It felt safe. And when Tuck wraps his arms around me and pulls me closer, I realize nothing has felt as right, as safe, as this does.
Tuck’s crooked grin and warm eyes are beaming at me when we part, both of us breathing heavy from the kiss.
“I have a scandalous proposition,” he drawls. The mischievous glimmer dancing in his eyes is just one of the so many things I love about this man.
“Do tell,” I say, through giggles.
“How about we skip our next class and go back to my place?”
“I love that idea almost as much as I love you.”
Those words fill his eyes with a flash of intensity, and before I know it, he’s dipping down to scoop me up in his arms and walking me across campus to his house, all while I’m giggling like a nut and he’s kissing me every couple steps.
“I love you,” I say again, later, in Tuck’s bed, with my head resting on his bare chest, utterly spent and satisfied.
“Love you too, Lockley,” he replies, planting a kiss on the top of my head.
A swoony sigh swooshes from my lips. “I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of hearing that.”
His chest rumbles with laughter. “I’ll put that to the test, Lockley. Don’t tempt me.”
I lift my head to look at him. “Hey, Tuck?”
“Yeah?”
“Now I’ve got a scandalous proposition.”
His brow bounces. “I like the sound of this.”
“Let’s skip our next class, too.”
I squeal in delight as Tuck flips me onto my back and covers me with his body.
We spend the rest of the day proving just how much we love each other.
44
OLIVIA
“This is long overdue,” Tuck says.
