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“Sloane.” His voice is authoritative, and that’s “The Daddy” voice, I decide. There’s a switch that gets flicked and he goes from quiet, aloof Jasper to that.
“There’s nothing safe about how badly I want you, Sloane. Never has been.
He’ll edge you for a day and turn you into a happy desperate ho!
“Just you and me,”
He’s in good hands here.
Whoever’s hands I bet is his loveeee interest 👀👀
I shrug and pull her head against my chest. In the same spot I always do—pressing her to my heart and dusting my lips over her hair.
“Theo Silva. Bull rider. Rhett’s been his mentor for a while now.”
“Dude. I think I’m in love with your sister-in-law. She’s so fiery.”
It’s like she and I are tethered together, but she’s the strong one. The pillar. And when troubled waters wash me downstream, all I have to do is follow the rope that ties me back to her. It always leads me back to her.
“I only just met you two at dinner the other night, but he hangs on every word. Traces every movement. I’m not sure he even knew what else was going on in that room.
If moving on from Jasper Gervais was an option, I’d have done it by now.
Didn’t stop me from sleeping on an air mattress in the empty house next door just to be close to her.
I live in my head and I feel things intensely. I always have.
Me
That girl has been choosing you for years. She’s just sick of waiting around for you to choose her back.
Turns out I’m a dragon and I’m fed the fuck up with boys and their bullshit.
You’re branded on my heart. Woven into the fiber of my being. The most constant and reassuring person in my life. When I close my eyes, I see you. When you’re away from me, I dream about you. When I need someone to lean on, you are always there for me. God. You’ve loved me when I haven’t even been able to love myself.”
Every time I get too far, Jasper reaches for me. I barely go for five minutes at a time without feeling him touch me in some way. Without him pressing a kiss to my hair for everyone to see. It’s . . . Well, it’s magical.
We’re not up in the box. We’ve taken over almost an entire row of the stadium behind home net. Filled it with Eatons. Filled it with family. Maybe not the family he was born into but the one that wanted him the most. The one that will do anything for him.
I know there’s nature. And that there’s nurture.”
“It’s a deed,” he says. “I can see that.” “To your own quarter section. Over on the east side. Nice sunrises. I know you two like to sit on the roof talking until the sun comes up. Thought you’d build there eventually. Stay close.
“All my kids got a quarter. And I feel like a real shmuck for not giving you one until now.”
