Eventually, Kayden and I ended up on the edge of the rock, our legs dangling
over the creek. We had to leave soon, to beat the encroaching night. Yet, I didn’t
want to be anywhere else, with anyone else.
“Hey, you doing okay?” He broke into my musings.
I cleared my throat. “Yeah, just thinking.”
“You having second thoughts?”
“About?”
“Joining the team?”
Yesterday, after talking with Kayden, I had officially accepted Delacourt’s offer to join PSY-IV. “Nope.” I paused, threading my fingers through the hand on my waist. “How about you? Having second thoughts about having me on
your team?”
He nuzzled my neck. “Nah, so long as you remember who’s in charge, we’ll
be fine.”
Laughing, I shot back, “That would be me, right, Lieutenant?”
“Think again, oh gunny mine.” He wrapped his arms around me and with a
mock growl drew me across his lap.
I laughed harder and curled my free hand around his neck to tangle my hand
in his hair, while my cast rested across my stomach. “Someone has to keep you
on your toes.”
He dipped his head and brushed his mouth over mine. “You up for the
challenge?”
“Oh, I think so,” I whispered, recapturing that teasing mouth with mine.
There was a new depth to the desire that had become my constant
companion. During the days and nights we spent together, I found something I thought forever out of reach, a friend, a partner, and a lover.
In between everything else, we made the time to explore each other, inside and out. Each new discovery deepening my initial fascination, and leading to even more profound discoveries, until the emotions I held for him spanned new,
unexpected depths.
“Someday you’re going to have to take a chance and just jump. ” The whisper
held Kelsey’s familiar lilt and brushed over me like a warm wind.
I pulled back slowly and studied Kayden’s face, treasuring every line and crease, etching it deep into my heart. A nervous flutter set up shop in my stomach.
His beautiful eyes darkened, and his arms tightened. “What?”
“I love you, Kayden Shaw.”
Navy blue flared to brilliant life. “I love you, too, my beautiful, mixed-up idiot.”
Kelsey was right, sometimes you got lucky when you jumped.
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