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Our noses are nearly touching, and her captivating green eyes are locked on mine. She doesn’t say anything, but I can see that she was. I lightly brush the tip of my nose against hers, and I can hear her breath hitch. We’re standing so close that I can feel her breasts brush against my chest as her breathing picks up.
I want her so much right now. It’s been too long since I last felt her body against mine, and I can’t focus on anything other than the thought of her naked and pressed against me. I can’t wait any longer and reach out to grip her waist in my hands, lightly brushing my lips against hers, testing to see if she’s okay with this. When she doesn’t pull back, I yank her against me and kiss her. I take one step toward her and twist us so that she is pressed against the door frame, pressing the length of my body against hers. A moan escapes me at the contact, and her hands come up to my sides and grasp my tank with her fists. She feels so good against me.
I trace my tongue along her lips, and she lets out a sigh, but before we can deepen the kiss, a little voice calls out down the hallway.
“Mommy!”
Tanya yanks back from me, turns, and rushes out the door and toward our daughter’s voice.
“Right here, honey.”
Her reaction is too amusing for me to be upset that we were interrupted. I have to wait a moment to take some deep breaths before I can follow her.
This woman is going to be the death of me.
I unwrap the tape from my hands and make my way down the hall to the main living area where I can hear Sophia’s voice. When I walk into the room, Tanya’s face heats again, and Sophia’s face lights up.
“Our house can fit inside of yours!”
A laugh bursts out of me. “Looks that way, doesn’t it? Do you like my place?”
Having these two approve of my space is more important to me than I thought it would be, but I know if they both like it, it’s just one more step closer to convincing Tanya to move in. I’m going to try and settle for them moving in downstairs, but that is only a stepping stone to getting them to move in here.
“Yeah, but it’s kind of...”
Sophia stops mid-sentence and looks around the place. My stomach drops at the word but. I walk over to her and kneel in front of her so that we are eye to eye.
“It’s kind of what? Tell me what you think it needs.”
I want her to be comfortable here, to see my home as her own, and I will get whatever she thinks it needs to do so.
“You need more pictures of Mommy and me.”
I stare at her in shock, this isn’t what I thought she was going to say, and my stomach does a little swoop at the thought that she wants to be included in my space.
“You are absolutely right. While you’re here this weekend, why don’t we work on that? We will take so many pictures that there won’t be any room for them all on the walls by the time we’re done.”
Her smile lights up her face, and it hits me again that she’s really mine. I haven’t been around a lot of children in my life. I’m an only child, and none of my close friends have any children. I’m still nervous around Sophia, scared that I’m going to mess up with her, so when she smiles up at me like this, I feel ten feet tall.
If I could only get her mother to smile at me like that.
“Do you guys have all your things in the car?”
Tanya nods and pulls out her phone to check for messages.
“Yeah, Kayla is downstairs talking with your driver about everything that needs to come up. She needs to leave after he gets everything out.”
Nodding, I stand and turn toward the hall to my room.
“Let me just take a quick shower and change, and then I can take you two downstairs to show you the other apartment.”
Once I’m fully facing away from them, a gasp sounds from behind me, and I quickly spin back around to see what happened. Tanya is staring at me with her hand covering her mouth.
“Are you okay? What happened?”
Her eyes lift from where she was staring at my shoulder, and she looks at me with a mixture of shock and confusion.
“Your tattoo.” Her words are soft.
