Slow Burn: The Complete Second Chances Series Boxed Set by Amelia Wilde

Author:Amelia Wilde [Wilde, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Crosby

“I’ll try to get away from the hospital at lunch.”

“For me?” I give Lacey a grin, even though I know she’s probably talking about some other fucking errand…I just can’t remember what.

“For the spare key.” Her smile lights up her entire face, and my heart twists in my chest. I want to see her face for the rest of the day. And tomorrow, too.

“You know…” I give her a look. “I could go have the copy made for you. If you trust me.”

She raises her eyebrows. “If I trust you?”

I shrug, raising one shoulder a fraction of an inch. “I mean, who knows? We’ve only been back together for…what is it, six hours?”

“We’re back together?” Lacey’s kidding. Isn’t she?

I step closer, putting my hands on her waist. “Did we or did we not have a conversation about this in the middle of the night?”

She taps the side of her jaw, looking off to the side. “Did we? I can’t quite—”

I lean forward to speak softly into her ear, even though there’s nobody to overhear us. “It ended with you on top, riding me like a fu—”

“Okay!” she cries, the laughter coming seconds later. “I remember.” Then her smile turns into something more serious. “Honestly, though, that was so…” Color rises to her cheeks. “It was so damn good that I don’t remember what we…decided.”

Now I’m grinning down at her like a complete fucking fool. “You didn’t forget.”

Lacey straightens her back, impossibly more pinkness rushing to her cheeks. “We decided to be together.”

“Hell yes, we did.”

“But you said—”

It hits me that she wants to hear it again, in the light of day, when there’s no darkness or tiredness to hide behind. It hits me that she wants to be sure. That she probably hasn’t been sure of much when it came to men for the last eight years.

I know exactly how she feels.

I wrap both of my arms around her and kiss her smooth cheek, the clean scent of her soap rising off her skin. Her hair is done up in a neat bun on top of her head, and she’s wearing black slacks and a black top with a gentle scoop neck. It will look amazing as hell underneath that white doctor’s coat.

“I said I never wanted to spend another day without you. And then I asked you if you’d be mine again, even though I was such an awful prick to you in college.”

She draws in a deep breath, then lets out a little sigh of contentment.

“Yes. That’s what you said.”

“And you said—”

Her cheeks rise with another incredible smile. Lacey tilts her head back and presses her lips against mine, this time tenderly, gently, like we’re both still a little fragile.

It doesn’t take long for it to turn into something else entirely, my hand sliding up to the back of her neck, the length of her body pressing against mine. She makes a little mewling sound into my mouth, then pulls back, laughing.

“Stop. I’m going to be late, and I can’t be late.

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