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Damian slung an arm around my waist, settling his hand on my hip. "Mom whispered to me that she gave you a tarot reading, and it showed good things ahead for us."
"Yeah, but she also said I might need to make a sacrifice."
"In tarot, that can mean a lot of things. Besides, that stuff's a bunch of bunk, right?"
"Sure, yeah, a bunch of bunk."
He tugged me more snugly to him. "Let me give you a palm reading. That'll make you feel so good you won't worry about anything for at least three days."
"That will only work if it's a naughty palm reading."
"For you, there's no other kind." He kissed my forehead. "Let's grab lunch and sequester ourselves in the wagon for a good, long reading."
"Can't be too long. Your lunch break is only an hour."
"I'll make up any overrun by working late. Come on, say yes."
"Okay. Yes."
He grinned.
I grinned.
Damn, we were a pair of lovestruck fools, but I didn't care. It felt beautiful and hot and sweet and sexy, all the things that made me forget about everything else in the world.
We stole some food from the lunch buffet in the dining hall, then hid out in the gypsy wagon to eat and…do other things. Multiple orgasms were on the menu for sure. Damian didn't get halfway through the palm reading before I dragged him down onto the pillows and rode him like a wild gypsy cowgirl.
He was half an hour late getting back to work, but nobody cared.
That night, after another round of palm-reading steaminess, I lay sprawled over Damian on the bed inside the wagon, satisfied in more ways than I could count. I'd never felt so at ease or so happy in my entire life, and I wanted to explain to him how much it meant to me, how much he meant to me. But I couldn't make the words come out, not yet.
In my mind, I told him.I love you, Damian.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Damian
A week after my family went home, it was time for the Kitten Brigade to leave too. Heidi had been a member of that group since the first time they came to Au Naturel, and I assumed she would go home with them. I didn't want her to leave. Heidi and I had grown so close lately that just the thought of watching her ride away in that pink RV got me choked up. Real manly, right? At least nobody saw me doing that.
We hadn't talked about where we would go from here, so I had no reason to expect her to stay with me. She had a job back home, after all, even if she didn't love it. Mara raved about everything Heidi had done to help her prepare for the wedding, but the prep work wasn't done yet. I supposed Heidi could still help out from home, with video calls or whatever.
I wanted to beg her to stay. Seriously. Me. I wanted to beg on my hands and knees.
Heidi came out of the guest house with her friends, and they piled into the RV, each giving Heidi a hug. She had her purse over her shoulder, but she didn't climb in with them.
I stood at the front of the vehicle, in the gravel driveway, staring at her like a desperate moron and praying she wouldn't get on that RV.
The door closed. Heidi stayed on the ground.
She was about to bang on the door so they'd let her in. Right?
Heidi backed up to get out of the way as the RV's engine revved up.
I lingered there paralyzed until Shelby, who was driving the bus, honked the horn and waved for me to get out of the way. Shouting "sorry," I hustled over to where Heidi stood. She gave me a strange look while the RV turned around and rolled off down the driveway, out of sight.
"Are you okay?" she asked. "You almost got mowed down by a giant, lumbering RV."
"I'm fine." I scratched the back of my neck, head down. "You must be, uh, taking a cab to somewhere to meet up with your friends later, right?"
