with the creepy vibes, I see.”
I nuzzle the side of his head.
“It’s true, though.”
“Great. Now how about you stop teasing me and tell me you love me.”
“I thought you wanted to hear totally new information. You’re sending me mixed messages.”
He throws his head back and groans.
“Well, Gray,” he mutters. “This is the rest of your life in a nutshell. I hope you’re happy.”
I pull his mouth down to mine and kiss him before I lean my forehead against his.
“I love you. So much.”
Gray smiles and closes his eyes for a second, savoring the moment.
“See? Now was that so hard?” he asks.
I kiss him again.
He tastes like happiness and love, and the thought that from now on, I can do this whenever I want makes me almost tear up again. It’s been a roller coaster of a day. So much so that everything that has happened in the last thirty minutes seems almost like something straight out of a fantasy. Or a movie. Or a dream.
Shit. I need to check something…
I sneak my hand between us and pinch my side so hard that my eyes start to water.
“Umm… what are you doing?” Gray asks against my lips.
“Just making sure it’s not a dream.”
He snorts out a laugh, and I can’t help but laugh, and all the while, our lips stay connected, both of us inhaling each other’s happiness.
I don’t think we’ve ever had a moment that is more perfectly us.
30
Gray
I wake up the next morning because my nose itches. I wipe over my face with my palm a couple of times while still half-asleep, but the itchy feeling keeps returning.
“What the—” I mumble as I pry one eye open, only to find Kai’s smiling face an inch above me. He’s holding a strand of his hair and tickling my nose with it.
“Nice,” I rasp as he throws himself on his back and laughs.
“You’re cute when you sleep,” he says.
“Too cute to let me continue?” I ask through a yawn.
“I figured you’d want to get up. We’re wasting precious daylight hours.”
“It’s June. The sun is up for, like, fifteen hours a day.”
“I was also really bored, but I didn’t want to go too far away from you,” Kai confesses with an unapologetic shrug.
“I’m rethinking this whole moving in and being in love stuff already.”
“Sorry. There’s a strict no-returns policy in place.” He rolls himself on top of me and smiles widely. “Although I do feel bad about waking you up. Maybe I can make it up to you.”
Kai pushes his hips against mine, circling them, grinding himself against my morning wood. I wrap my legs around his hips, trapping him.
“On second thought, I think I’m going to keep you,” I say before I hook my fingers on the back of his neck and pull him down for a kiss that intensifies by the second, until Kai suddenly pulls away from me, leaving me completely dazed.
“Where are you going?” I blink and try to clear some of the haze of desire as Kai sits up and throws his legs over the side of the bed.
“You didn’t hear the knock? Wow. I’m really good at foreplay.” He grabs a pair of sweats and pulls them on. “Somebody’s at the door,” he explains at my confused expression.
“So?” I call after him as he gets out of the room. “We can pretend we’re not home.”
He peeks his head back inside the room. “I already tried that, but whoever that is has been knocking forever by now.”
As if to prove Kai’s words, I hear a couple of loud raps from the direction of the front door.
I throw myself back on the bed. “Tell them to fuck off and never come back,” I call after him. “Unless they’re, like, Girl Scouts selling Christmas cookies, and in that case be polite when you tell them to get lost.”
The sound of Kai’s bare feet moving through the apartment makes me smile.
I hear a faint click when Kai opens the door, and then the murmur of voices and the sound of the door closing.
“Did you get rid of them?” I call. “Because I’m getting lonely here.”
In a few seconds, Kai is back in the doorway, looking startled for some reason.
I throw the comforter off and waggle my brows at him.
“You might want to postpone that a bit,” he says and motions toward the living room with his head. “Your gran and your brother are here.”
I fling myself to a sitting position.
“They’re here right now?”
“In the living room.” Kai looks away. “They