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“You love it.”
“I love you.”
Her words hung in the air between us, making my entire body flush with pleasure. Slowly, carefully, I leaned in to wrap her in my arms. Instinctively her arms and legs wound around me. Wet, salty skin teased my mouth as I simply held her.
“Don’t you dare drop me, Jamie Calvin,” she whispered against my ear.
I swallowed hard, my mind racing. “I’ll never let you go.”
That was a promise.
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Chapter 11
Jamie
Silence fell, so heavy that I shook my head, afraid that I had dreamed up what she just said. “What?”
She shrugged, stepping away and back into the water. “I love you. So what?”
“Just like that.”
She rolled her eyes at me. “You have been pursuing me for weeks. Is it so unlikely that I would end up falling in love with you?”
“No…” I swallowed hard. “I just didn't think I’d ever get that lucky.”
Margot ran her hands over her hair, slicking the now-clean strands back from her face. I reached around her to turn the water off, and she slipped out. Grabbing her robe, she suddenly seemed to be in a rather large hurry, her movements quick as she left the bathroom.
“Margot, wait.”
Throwing a towel around my waist, I pursued her out into the living room. “Margot!”
She turned, her hands raised over her face. “What, Jamie? I just needed a moment.”
“And I’m happy to give you a moment. As many as you want, as soon as I make it clear about what you just said.”
“I know, I know, I blurted out that I loved you in the shower, after sex.” She drew in a long, ragged breath. “You don’t have to explain. I know you wanted me. But I also know there’s no real future here. We are too different.”
“Margot,” I begged. “Please, just stop a second.”
“I just feel so stupid—”
“Margot Beckett, stop talking for two seconds. I am trying to tell you I love you too. If I hadn’t been so sex-drunk, I would’ve told you first. And I was only slow to the take today because I was trying to figure out how to ask you to move in here.”
Margot’s mouth was a perfectO.
“Do you understand, little one? I don’t want to live without you anymore. And even ten floors are too many.”
Dark lashes blinked slowly. “Jamie…”
“I love you, Margot, so very much.” I ran my hand down her cheek to cup her jaw. “And I love everything about you,includingthe way you are so different from me. I want you to meet my mom. I want you to know Declan and Sam. I want to hold your hand at Jackson’s graduation.”
I stopped to breathe. “But most of all, I want you here, with me, every day.”
She looked up at me tearfully. “And not just for morning sex?”
I burst out laughing. This woman… She was going to keep me on my toes for the rest of my life. I couldn’t wait. “I mean, that’s nice, but no, not just for morning sex.”
