The McKinley Ranch Duet (McKinley Ranch Duet #0.5-2) by Kylie Kent

Author:Kylie Kent [Kent, Kylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780645257205
Google: ehOyzgEACAAJ
Publisher: McCartney Industries Pty Limited
Published: 2021-10-01T23:00:00+00:00

I’m jolted awake as I feel my body being lifted. “Shh, it’s okay. I’ve got you,” Josh says. I let my head fall onto his chest momentarily before my brain makes the connection that he’s carrying me.

“Wait. I’m awake. Put me down.” I wiggle around, which only makes his arms hold me tighter.

“No.”

“Josh, don’t be ridiculous. Put me down. I can walk. You don’t need to carry me.”

“I know I don’t need to. I want to, so I am.”

“Look, I didn’t want to say this, but you’re making me. You should really take better care with your back; you’re not getting any younger. You should probably leave the heavy lifting to the young folk.”

“Are you calling me old, Emmy?” He laughs.

“If the shoe fits.” I smile up at him.

“You do know we are the same age, right? Also, I’m more than happy to prove to you just how much vitality this body of mine still has.”

“We are the same age, which is why I know how old you are. I’m pretty sure I saw a grey hair yesterday.”

Josh stops abruptly. “Babe, that’s not something to joke about. Where was it? It’s probably just dust. I am not going grey. There’s no fucking way.” Shaking his head, he continues walking, pressing the button for the lift with his elbow.

“I meant on me. I saw a grey hair on me, not you. I didn’t know you were so vain. Are you really worried about a grey hair?”

“On me, yes. On you, not at all. In fact, I can’t wait to see you old and wrinkly with a full head of grey hair.”

“That’s weird. Do you have a granny fetish I should know about?” Josh laughs as the doors to the lift open and he steps in. Turning back around to face the door, he shifts all of my weight into one arm so he can use his thumbprint to send the lift to the penthouse.

Huh, I wonder if my thumb would do that?

“I don’t have a granny fetish. I have an Emmy fetish. Everything Emmy turns me the fuck on. But mostly, I’m looking forward to seeing you old and grey because it will mean we’d have had a whole life together.”

“Will we be sitting on rocking chairs next to each other on the porch of an old cabin?”

“We will be doing whatever it is you want to be doing, Em.”

“Mmm, well, I think that when we are old, I want to be sitting on a porch in a rocking chair while we watch our grandchildren play in the yard.” I don’t tell him that I can’t see how we can ever have that future—the dream. Instead, I do what I’m good at. I pretend. I pretend that Josh and I have a future together, that we will have a soccer team of kids and more grandchildren than we can count.

We’ll spend holidays watching the brumbies run free and wild at the cabin we just spent a whole week in. If I had it my way, we’d be going back there.

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