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We stare, lost in each other.
“Wait.” A hand presses to her lips. She blinks, the shoes forgotten. “You kissed me.”
Fuck.
“Aye.” I’m an honest man. “First time I’ve kissed a woman.”
Her eyes get impossibly wide. “Kissing means something to you. Kissing means you have feelings for me?”
It’s a question I can’t leave hanging.
“Aye,” I admit, not wanting to, but her face softens.
A line I’ve crossed, and there’s no going back.
“I have feelings for you, too. For all of you.”
I don’t want to talk about my brothers right now, and she senses it. Her arms wrap around me, and we silently embrace. I pull her close, leaning my chin on her head.
“I don’t want to let you go,” she whispers.
I cup her beautiful face in my hands and kiss her and tell her with my mouth what I can’t say with words.
You’re mine, baby. You’re ours, but you’re mine. I’ve never felt like this, and I won’t again.
I break the kiss before I admit out loud that I’m deeper into this woman than she’ll ever know.
“Don’t let me go,” she whispers urgently, tears trickling down her face.
“Baby, I don’t want to let you go.” I kiss her forehead. “If I could change this, would you consider staying?”
“Of course, but how?” She plays with a lock of hair on my forehead. Smoothing it. It’s weirdly comforting.
I need to talk to my brothers.
Now.
Chapter Twenty-One
GEORGIA
It’s Friday night. I can’t believe my last day in Edinburgh is tomorrow. There were hugs and a few watery smiles at the office, mine mostly. Momma has been filling the house with vases of lilies for when I’m back home. Molly Whuppie, who’s been staying with Mom, will ignore me for two days when I get home, make figure of eights around my legs, then lay a paw on my chest when we go to bed. It’s her thing, and I love it.
Darcie and I have swapped email addresses and created a WhatsApp group. After the beautiful exchange with Knox yesterday, I’ve been left strangely fragile as if I could blow away on a gentle wind.
Lachlan reads me before I even know what I’m feeling. If I’m worried about something a cup of tea arrives before me. I was having a bad hair day, and Lachlan made my hair into a gorgeous, wispy bun. When I’m tired or overwhelmed by what’s happening, he holds me, rubbing circles on my back until the tension bleeds.
Speaking of Lachlan, where is he?
He should be back by now.
I check my phone.
Nothing.
Lachlan is fixing a leak in an upstairs apartment, but that was ages ago. I haven’t seen Knox since yesterday. Finn is a shadow in the wind.
If I’m sipping on truth serum, I’d say my raised heartbeat and jiggling foot are because I’m lonely. I haven’t had a lot of alone time since I arrived.
