Neat (Becker Brothers, #2)

by Kandi Steiner

“You need a little color in here. And maybe a little mess, too.” “You volunteering to be that mess?” I asked, reaching out to hook my finger in the belt loop on her skirt. I tugged her into me, sweeping her hair behind one ear. “I’d be honored,” she whispered, and then her lips were on mine.

“I see the first woman to steal my heart, and the only woman I ever want to keep it.”

“I wish so many things.”

“What do you wish for most?” “You.” She answered quickly and effortlessly, sending my heart into a spiraling rhythm. My hands trailed up her arms, sliding to hold her neck gently, her forehead still pressed to mine. “You can have me, Mallory,” I whispered. “If you want me, I’m yours.” “I’m scared,” she confessed, her voice trembling with the admission.

“Do you think there’s a universe that exists where you could be mine?” Her eyelids fluttered open, and she turned in my arms. Even in the dark, those blue eyes of hers shone, and she locked them on mine, one hand crawling up to frame my face, sliding back into my hair, pulling me closer, her lips brushing mine when she gave her answer. “Let’s make one.”

“I was so blinded by you that I couldn’t see,” he whispered, his voice shaking. “All I wanted was to love you. Nothing else mattered. And now…” he swallowed. “Now, I’ve lost everything. Including you — and I never even had you at all, did I?”