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“My sister? Gross, man.”
“There isnothinggross about your sister.”
“Shut the fuck up.” He put his hands over his ears. “I can’t hear that shit without wanting to vomit.”
“Good, then leave. We were about to start making out.”
Jonah looked horrified and hurried from the room. I belted out a laugh right before Reed pulled me into his arms and buried his face against my neck, laughing.
“I don’t know what we were so worried about,” he whispered against my temple.
I shook my head. “They all knew?”
“Crazy.” He pulled back to look down at me. “Guess I haven’t been so secretive about my feelings all these years after all.”
“All these…years?”
He’d felt this way about me for years? My whole body soared and melted against him.
“There’s a reason I never brought a girl home,” he whispered against my jaw, hugging me tighter. “The girl I wanted was here all along.”
“Oh, Reed.”
Then we were kissing, my hands curling into his hair. When he slanted his mouth to go deeper, I heard someone step into the room.
“Gross!” Justin turned back around. “Mom, make Reed and Anna stop kissing in the kitchen. My whole dinner is going to come back up.”
“Leave them alone,” I heard her say while Reed and I started laughing again.
One of his hands slid down my back and down to the hem of my skirt where he coasted his fingertips over the back of my bare thigh, raising goosebumps on my skin.
“I like this dress.” His voice had gone deep and rough as he continued to trail along my lower thigh, back and forth.
“I wore it for you.”
“We’d better let them know our third bit of news then so I can take you home and you can take it off for me.”
“Why don’t we just sneak out instead? I’m afraid my brothers may actually rupture their guts and die at the thought of me moving into your house with you.”
“Sounds good to me.”
I glanced through the archway into the living room where everyone was settled in and watching Deadliest Catch, then I grabbed my purse, took Reed’s hand, and tip-toed toward the door leading to the garage.
We hurried to his truck and took off like two sneaky kids, laughing the whole way back to his house. Funny thing was, even after he’d taken me against the kitchen wall, still in my dress, then again in the shower before we collapsed on the sofa, snuggling naked under the covers, not one person had texted us.
It was around midnight after we’d finished the second episode ofThe Witcherwhen Reed’s phone lit up with a text. Jonah.
He reached over me to the coffee table and held it up where we could both read it.
JONAH: You’ve always been my brother. Guess it’ll be official.
I choked. We’d just started dating! No one said anything about marriage yet. Jeesh. Then another text.
JONAH: Because if you don’t marry her now, I’ll fucking kill you.
Reed laughed, his chest shaking behind me. He started texting back over my head where I could see exactly what he typed.
REED: We’ll be brothers in truth soon enough. Whenever Anna says yes.
