The Live-In Temptation (Steele Brothers of Starlight Cove #2)

by Brighton Walsh

“Lie better, baby.”

“Happy birthday, chaos.”

“I’m saying I want to add to that list for the rest of my life, Chloe. I want to give you adventures every day—whether we do that in Starlight Cove or we continue your yearly trip to Sedona or we swing by the elephant sanctuary in Thailand. It means I want you to go on the greatest adventures of your life. But I want you to experience them with me and Emma.”

“I’m in love with you, chaos.” He kissed me then. Slow and sweet. Full of intent and devotion and the love he just confessed. “And I’m asking you to stay.”

Because this—you and me and Emma? This is home.”

I’d never known what home felt like. Not a real home. Sure, I’d had a house with four walls and a roof over my head. I’d had food and clothing and all the necessities, but I’d never had this. Promises whispered against my skin and arms that didn’t let go and a list of ridiculous little adventures written in block letters just for me. I’d spent my whole life running—toward or away from something, I wasn’t sure. But maybe I’d finally found what I’d always been searching for. Not found in a place or an escape plan but in the steady heartbeat of a man who saw all my broken pieces and called them beautiful. A man who knew every chaotic, unpredictable piece of me and loved me, not in spite of them, but because of them. Maybe, finally, I was home.