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I tip my head back and take a deep breath, pulling in the crisp spring air, and smile. Yeah, this is exactly where I’m supposed to be.
Chase has a smile that could likely melt all the snow on the ski mountain. Not to mention, he’s a cop, and that uniform is hot.
She steps away, sneezing into the towel she picked up off the counter. It’s not a feminine sneeze, the way some women let out a tiny little achoo. No, hers is loud and sounds like a linebacker’s. It’s actually kind of cute.
“Like the dwarf. Doc. You’ve been happy and sneezy and even dopey that day you said you had a blonde moment. Then you tended to my burn.” Now those green eyes narrow on me. “So, that would make you Grumpy.” I can’t stop the bark of laughter at that, and when she smiles, it makes my blood hum in a way that it hasn’t in years.
We have animals out here, Holly. You saw the big bear we had last fall.” “He looks friendly,” she says. “He’s not friendly.”
That first sip of coffee just hits different when it’s your day off.
I love quiet mornings, watching the mountains. Well, the tiny bit that I can see from my little apartment window anyway. I like watching the world wake up with me.
I won’t argue about it again. Even though I like arguing with Remington. It’s just so…easy. And, if I’m being honest with myself, it’s sexy.
“You make a damn good coffee and you cook? Where have you been all my life?”
“It was deep down, in my gut. In my heart. It was like the universe was welcoming me home, and for the first time in my life, I felt like I belonged.
“It doesn’t sound silly at all. When you’re home, you’re home.”
Leave it to me to hire the hottest goddamn nanny on the planet. Her skin is luminous in the firelight, and those green eyes of hers… well, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like them. She’s fucking gorgeous, and my kids love her.
“I shouldn’t have done that.” I nuzzle her nose with mine. “But damn it, you’d tempt a saint, and I’m not a saint. You’re so fucking beautiful.”
I don’t want her to leave yet. I want to talk to her, the way we did by the fire last week. Jesus, I want to kiss her again more than I want my next breath. She should be living here, on the ranch. She’s here most of the time anyway.
“I don’t know why I want to cry.” “Adrenaline,”
With a sigh, he rests his forehead against mine, and for the first time since I met him, he seems…vulnerable.
“Like you’ve waited for her all your life. And that’s something else that I love about her. She’s awoken something in you that’s been sleeping for a very long time.”
“You’re not a goddamn science experiment. You’re a woman living in my home, taking care of my kids. For fuck’s sake, Erin, it’s more than that, and we both know it. I want you. I’ve wanted you since the first time I saw you in that coffee shop. You said yourself that the feeling’s mutual, yet I’ve been thrown for one hell of a loop.”
“How can we know absolutely nothing about each other, after all of these weeks, and you still want to kiss me?”
“Hard and fast,” I instruct him, my core still quivering from the last orgasm and already feeling on the precipice of the next. “Fuck me hard and fast.”
“I like her,” he says again. “I do, too.” “I like that she seems to lift your whole vibe. That’s saying something.”
When I turn around, I see a sweatshirt folded on the end of the bed. It’s a Montana State University sweatshirt, in blue and gold, and when I pick it up and smell it, it smells like Remington. “He gave me his shirt,” I mutter before burying my nose in it once more. It’s definitely seen better days, so it’s obviously something that he once wore often. I absolutely love it.
Yeah, I love it here. My life is awesome right now.
“I’m fairly certain that I’m safe in the car—” The look Rem shoots me could melt iron. “You’ll have my children. And in case I haven’t made myself clear to you up to this point, you mean something to me, too. If you think I won’t do whatever it takes to keep the three of you safe, you don’t know me as well as you think you do.”
You know, I always thought I’d deck the first guy to say good girl to me like that, but it turns out that it’s hot as fuck.
“The way I lose myself in you every time,” he growls into my ear. “Don’t you see that I’m falling in love with you? It fucking scares me, but it’s true.”
“You’ll stay,” he says at last. “Because you leaving isn’t a motherfucking option.” “No.” I swallow hard, also fighting to catch my breath. “Leaving isn’t an option for either of us.”
“Erin is part of our family now anyway. She’s the best.” Happy with the way that went, I reach for an apple. He’s right. Erin is the best.
“Rem?” “Yeah?” “I think it’s time for that forest sex now.”
“Well, that was a good way to start the day.” “I think it’s my new favorite,” I agree. “You should go back to sleep.”
“I fucking love the way you look here, in my bed, in my room. Naked and still buzzing from having my cock inside of you.”
“Keep it up and you’ll be late for work,” she warns me. “I’ll be back,” I promise her. “Just a few hours, and I’ll be back. And then we’re not leaving this bed for the rest of the day.” “I’ll hold you to that.”
“I love you, too,” he whispers against my lips. “Madly. Stupidly. Irrevocably. I’m wild for you, Doc.”
Hey, Doc, You deserve your favorite flowers every day. Love, Grumpy
“Erin?” “Yes, love.” “When do you think it would be okay if I called you Mommy?”
“I know that I’m a lot to take on. I have two children and a ranch that demands a lot of my time. But I want to make a life with you here. I want to marry you, share my home and my kids with you.”
I search his face and eyes, and I can see the love there, radiating back at me. And I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that I want to marry this man, and be the mother to his gorgeous kids. I want this life with him.
“I love you and the kids and this place more than anything. When I came to Montana, I was so lost. I didn’t know for sure what I wanted or even who I was. But I found it with you, and with Holly and Johnny. This is absolutely where I’m supposed to be. And the kids are champing at the bit to call me Mom, which just melts my heart every time they ask. They’re the sweetest, and I love them with my whole heart. Not just because they’re a packaged deal with you, but because of who they are as people. I hope their mom would approve of me stepping in on her behalf.”
“She’d like you, Doc. And I know my kids are crazy about you because they’ve also been hounding me to ask you to marry us so you can finally be their mom.”
“This is only the beginning, Doc.” He kisses my nose and pulls me closer to him, and I know that this is just the beginning of an incredible life here in the wilds of Montana.
