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Fuck, how silly was it looking back now? How convinced I was that I would fail and ruin Rosie’s life. Remembering Everett’s attitude before the game made me wonder if it was a fatal flaw of the Ansons to fixate on all the ways something could go wrong.
No more. From now on I would only focus on possibilities. “Both my feet are firmly planted in front of you Kate James.” I glanced around. The last time I was in her office she was still moving in. “Looking good in here.”
She grinned. “I’m so excited, Isaac. I’ve never had a real office. Not one I could move into and put up my diplomas and make my own. Come here. Look at this.” She hit a button and her desk raised up to standing height. Then she pressed another button and it moved back down where it was. “Cool right? And over here.” She waved at the empty corner. “I just ordered a small sofa, rug and coffee table.” Beyond that was her personal bathroom. It was small, but all hers. She had a few changes of clothes in there because her other new favorite perk was being able to work out in the employee gym.
“You know what’s nice?”
“I could list a lot of things right now,” she laughed.
I wrapped her back up in my arms. “You’re right here but we’re not on top of each other. If I want to see you all I have to do is walk upstairs.”
“Or I can walk downstairs. I love it!”
“I love you.” All the kissing was making me want more.
Kate surprised me by locking her office door. “I love you, too. How about we test out what it takes to have sex in this office?”
The blinds were shut, the door locked, and no one else around…
I lifted her onto the desk. “The lady gets what the lady wants.”
“Of course the couch will make this much easier in the future.” She gasped as I nuzzled her breasts.
“And I appreciate that, but why don’t we focus on the fun possibilities of this desk first?”
Kate grinned. “Oh, aye Captain Anson. Focusing on the here and now, even if the future with you is so bright I can’t help but be blinded by it sometimes.”
I circled her wrists with my fingers and held her captive. “I am very much looking forward to spending forever with you, Doc.” A memory hit me. A very special memory. “You remember the first night you came home with me?”
“Of course.” She wriggled in my grasp, searching for friction.
Friction I would normally have given her, but I was currently having an amazing epiphany. “You asked some very important questions. Why me? Why now? Why couldn’t we have met years ago.”
She stilled, big, beautiful eyes staring up at me filled with love. “I remember.”
“Well I finally have an answer.” Do I wish we had the last ten years together? Hell yeah. But I found her now, not then. “In baseball we have a term for when you hit the ball just right. The ball hits the bat in the exact perfect place for maximum velocity. If you hit it anywhere else it isn’t as effective. I think…no, I know if we met before this we would have fallen in love, but it would have been messy. I wasn’t in the right place and I don’t think you were either. We met at the perfect time for the maximum effect our love can create.” Even a year ago I would have made a mess of a relationship with Kate. I would have tried like hell, that I knew for sure, but I would have fucked it up along the way. Hurt her in ways I never wanted to.
So, in a way, I was glad we met when we did.
Kate pulled one hand out of my grasp and pressed her palm into my cheek before kissing me once lightly on the lips. “That is a beautiful answer to my question. I love you so much, Isaac.”
“I love you, too.”
Then she grinned. “So what’s it called?”
I bounced my eyebrows and pulled her to the edge of the desk where I could press into her heat. “It’s called the sweet spot.”
EPILOGUE
Annalise Ryan
“Annalise!” Hope waved her hand through the air. Rhett stood beside her expressionless, like normal.
I jogged up to them and stopped. “Good morning! Ready to run?”
“Who’s that?” Rhett nodded to the German shepherd at my side.
“This is Roscoe. Roscoe, this is the devil. Attack.” Roscoe cocked his head, looking up at me like I’d lost my mind.
