Page 51 of Gunner

Bebe waved her hand in the air. “Take your time, I won’t need it for a while and honestly, no pressure either way.”

The door opened as they finished eating and Gunner walked in, his eyes moving straight to her and moving all over her body to assure himself she was okay before landing on her lips.

“What’s all this? I missed out.”

He eyed the empty plates with a wink as he stood behind her and wrapping his fist around her ponytail, tugged her head back for a kiss. If she thought about it, she would’ve been self-conscious, but whenever she was with Gunner, all thoughts left her brain, especially when he kissed her.

“On that very nauseating note, I’ll get going and leave you love birds to it.”

Lacey blushed as she looked at Bebe who just laughed as she pointed. “I’m so glad my skin is darker and I don’t have to worry about shit like that.” Lacey placed her cool palms on her heated cheeks.

“Thanks for watching her, Bebe.”

“Hey, I’m not a baby.”

Gunner slid his arm around her belly. “Oh, I know that, Cosmo.”

“Yuck.” Bebe made a gagging noise as Gunner walked her out. Lacey started to put the plates in the dishwasher, thinking about how she’d like to take some self-defence lessons. She felt his arms come around her and tilted her head so he had better access to her neck as he rained kisses on her, heating her blood.

Turning in his arms, she clutched his biceps as he held her, with his hands on her ass. “When this is better, will you teach me self-defence?”

“Of course.”

“Thanks, Viking.”

“My pleasure, Cosmo.”

“So, what are our plans today?”

“Well, I had a thought…”

“Oh, yes?”

“Yeah, I thought we could go and visit my sister and my amma? If you don’t feel up to it, we can stay home.”

Lacey could feel his nerves in the way his arms flexed under her hands. Gunner wanted this almost as much as he didn’t. Lacey was touched that he was ready to share this with her already. “I’d love to meet your family, and today is perfect.”

Gunner blew out a breath. “Okay then. Let me call ahead and make sure today is a good day and we can go. It’s about an hour’s drive. Are you sure that’s not too much?”

He was nervous, and it made her want to soothe away all his doubts, but she knew these particular demons weren’t ones she could slay for him because they weren’t about her, they were about something that had happened a long time ago, and it was time he saw the truth.

“It’ll be okay, sweetheart.”

Gunner didn’t answer, but she saw him swallow and dip his head to acknowledge her comment then he made the call.