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"He wanted to come back to you," Rush told me

"It’s okay, Rush I’m not upset," I assured him

He looked relieved "Nate asleep?" he asked

"He was crying and Blaire went up to rock him"

"He wants me It’s our time Tell Grant I said thanks," he toldoutside when I pulled into the driveway She was still wearing that dress, but her heels were dangling froers I’d had plans for that dress, and especially those heels Even if she hadn’t

I jumped out of the truck and walked around to open her door as she reached me

She smiled up at me sweetly The tired look in her eyes made me want to tuck her close toboth her hands and putting the both her hands onmy head until I could press my lips to hers She opened easily formyself that she was ainstreassurance

"No," she said siet you tucked into bed, too Except I want you naked and wrapped around me," I told her, and picked her up to set her in my truck "And I want you to wear those heels for me"

She scrunched her nose "To sleep in?"

"No, I want you in those heels while I bury myself inside you," I informed her

Both her cheeks flairl She wasn’t hurt orrelieved

I patted the seat beside ainsteasier I pressed a kiss to her head "Thank you," I said

"For what?"

"For being so damn perfect for me"

Harlow turned her face to rest onher to her bedroo to lie I was upset I didn’t like that you went to Nan’s rescue It was selfish of liness inside I won’t ever react that way again I don’t want to be that way"

She was so daliness in her I slid h "Harlow, I don’t think you could be selfish and ugly, even if you tried You reacted that way because you felt possessive of me, and that makes me the luckiest damn man in the world You should have been upset Hell, baby, I was upset I was so damn torn I didn’t want to be there, but Rush needed , I slid h "I tell you what You can be selfish anytime you want to with s open "Why?" she breathed as my hand brushed her already-wet panties

"Because I want to belong to you I want you to care when I leave If you would’ve coo with ainstsound in her throat "Then fuck o inside I need you," she said, throwing her head back and crying out as I slipped a hand inside her panties

"Looks like I’et to live out that fantasy with you in this dress after all," I told her and reached for her shoes "I want these on you first," I told her

She laughed and slipped the into my lap

•

When the first alaro to bed, I quickly turned it off and started to get out of bed to wake Nan Harlow’s hand reached out and grabbedthis," she said and started to get up

"Stay in bed I don’t want you dealing with this," I argued Nan was not her proble, thick hair out of her face and frowned at me "You said that it was okay forinto Nan’s roo her up You stay here in , I lay back down "Okay Fine You win," I replied

She had a point There was no way in hell I’d let her go in another ht and wake hirabbed my discarded white tuxedo shirt and put it on without bothering to button it; she just held it closed and went out the door

Little, sweet, sexy wo her just whose bed I was in Made ht in her With a sister like Nan, she needed it I hated to think of Nan hurting her in any way

To think I al her and losing her The fear of death had gotten its claws in thick I had Rush and Blaire to thank for showingsomeone like this orth it I just had to find a way to tell Harlow exactly how I felt I didn’t want to scare her off The way she was looking at me lately, I wanted to believe she felt the same way

The bedroom door opened and Harlow rolled her eyes "She’s fine Bitchy as ever Said she wanted you to check on her next ti back into bed to snuggle up against et over it I was keeping your sexy ass safely tucked in s over ainst me and went back to sleep with a sust Even if Woods hadn’t fired hied to break the arm he hit Nan with and told him to leave town Either Rush had an in with the police departust had run scared I’ about Nan with Grant

Nan left town again, which was a nor for her, from what everyone said She would be back when she was over the thing with August I was just glad to have Grant alone He see between me and Grant noas my secret The one that I had kept to myself most of my life The one that made people treathim I loved him

He hadn’t said he loved s he deserved? For so long, I had lived without thinking about it because randmama hadn’t allowed me to use it as a crutch or an excuse But nowI couldn’t do this without being honest Telling Grant the truth was going to be hard He would either understand or see this as a deception