In a Jam (Friendship, RI Book 1)

by Kate Canterbary

I really wanted another minute or two of this. Of Gennie, safe and secure on one side of me, and Shay snuggled up on the other.

I brushed my lips against hers, fast enough for our surroundings yet exactly long enough to ruin my whole life.

All right. We’ll keep Jaime.

She took Shay’s hand and towed her toward the stadium. Shay glanced back at me, held out her free hand. I’d never moved so fast in my life.

“Stay right here. Do not move. Not a single muscle. Do you understand?” “Aye aye, captain.”

It was cute. My husband, the cutie.

“I wouldn’t want to ruin the alone-and-silent thing.” He hooked an arm around my shoulders and pulled me to his side. “You couldn’t if you tried.”

I wanted to gather her up and hold her close and promise to make everything better. I also wanted to wring her pretty little neck.

She deserved everything, even if I couldn’t be the one to give it to her.

She was also pinned tight because everything in the world felt right when she was there.

“You can sleep on me all night,” I said. Every night. Always. Forever.

I palmed her round ass and kissed the outside of her thighs. Hell, I’d kiss her elbow if that was what she gave me. I loved every inch of this impossible woman.

My world started and ended with her sitting beside me on those dark morning rides to school, and it started up all over again when I found her on my farm.

I couldn’t tell her that I loved her. Loved her so completely, so thoroughly, that no one else in the world could compare. Maybe someday I’d be able to tell her this but not yet.

“I just—I want you to want me,” she whispered. “That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you, wife. I do. I want you so much it would scare you to know the half of it.”