Nome-o Seeks Juliet (An Odds-Are-Good Standalone Romance, #2) by Katy Regnery

Author:Katy Regnery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: pets, dogs, Alaska romance, musher, sled dogs, Iditarod, sports romance, dog in romance, veteran romance, military romance
Publisher: Katharine Gilliam Regnery
Published: 2019-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Juliet

Although we never have an actual conversation about my moving into Cody’s bedroom and sharing it with him, it just happens.

Like falling asleep.

Like breathing.

Like blinking.

Little by little over the next two weeks, the furniture from my room ends up in his. My fresh sheets and brand-new comforter now cover his aqua-painted bed. The little shelf that holds my clothes sits beside his bureau, and the nightstand and lamp from my room now rest on my side of Cody’s bed. Gone is his nasty, old, vomit-yellow chair, exchanged for my pretty gingham bean bag and fuzzy throw blanket. Even his old carpet makes its way to the dump and my sage green carpet from upstairs warms our feet in the mornings.

And this morning when I open my eyes?

He’s roped the room with the Christmas lights and sage-green ribbon while I was asleep.

How he pulled that off in the middle of the night, I’ll never know, but in its own way, it’s so achingly romantic, it almost makes me cry.

The only things that have stayed upstairs are my air mattress, desk, laptop, and heater. When I need to work, as I do now, the loft is still my office.

It shows Cody’s thoughtfulness that while he stealthily relocated me to his bedroom, he left some of what I needed behind for privacy and work. It makes me—I don’t know. Yes, I do—it makes me like him so much that like doesn’t feel like the right word anymore. No man has ever anticipated my needs so keenly or made my comfort such a priority. Cody shows his affection for me in action, in attention, and I value it more than every flowery word ever spoken.

Sometimes, when I wake up naked beside him, with his dark room smelling of our lovemaking, I’m filled with a sensation so strong, so absolute, I almost feel like I’m a part of him. And I wonder if human beings can forge a bond so intimate, so intense, so fierce that even when your bodies aren’t physically joined together, your heart still beats in his chest, and his breath is the air that fills your lungs.

My feelings for him have grown in the same way that his bedroom has become mine. Organically, without permission or trial, my affection for him deepens day by day until I fear a time will come that I won’t be able to remember when it didn’t exist.

It will just...be.

Like blinking.

Like breathing.

Like falling asleep beside him or in his arms.

I won’t just be Juliet Sanderson anymore. I’ll be Cody’s Juliet, and I think maybe I’ll want to die if I ever have to be less than that.

From the window over my desk, I watch Cody open the kennel gate for all eighteen dogs after two hours of free play in the pasture. With their tails high and wagging, each dog enters the fenced area without hesitation. They aren’t leashed or harnessed. They could bolt for the mountains at any time and only stop running when they so chose.

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