Perfect Risk (Mason Creek #1) - C.A. Harms Page 0,75
his eyes, the way he smiles, made me love him so much more. I never thought that was possible.
After the two of them left and I cleaned everything up, I went to the bedroom and climbed in bed. Gus wasted no time climbing up beside me and I allowed him too, because Wyatt wasn’t there to fill the space. When he was he made Gus sleep in his own bed at the foot of ours and I felt terrible about it. Prior to me moving in Gus occupied the space I now have.
In no time at all, I faded away and Gus too was snoring at my side.
Chapter Forty-One
Wyatt
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“If I ask her now, I feel like she’ll think I’m doing it because she’s pregnant.” Anna stared at me as if she was thinking over my words. “You know she will.”
“Maybe you’re right.” My heart felt like it sank. I wanted to marry Sadie, hell I knew I wanted to spend my life with her after the first time she looked up at me with those beautiful chocolate eyes of hers and smile. It was like something shifted inside of me and I was sank.
“So what do I do now, wait?”
“Or you could just be honest and tell her that you’ve been thinking about it for weeks.”
Anna knew Sadie better than anyone, I understood that there were things I’d never understand and things that only the two of them could share. Which is the exact reason why I stopped by the salon to talk to her. I’d been holding onto a ring for weeks now, trying to decide if asking Sadie to marry me would the one thing that had her running for the mountains. Then after her accident and the news that we were going to be parents I wondered if she’d fear that was the reason being my proposal. The truth is baby or no baby I’d wanted her as my wife.
“I think I would have married her after our first date.” And that was the truth.
“Then tell her that,” Anna reached out and patted my arm. “She loves you, and she’s happier than I have ever seen her before. She was never content in LA, I know she always tried to convince us all that things were great but Sadie is too easy to read. Being away from Mason Creek was never what she truly wanted, she just felt like to find herself she had to leave. I always knew she’d come back and when she did, when she ran in to you that day outside of Java something flipped inside of her. I sat back and watched, waited knowing already that even though she fought it she still felt something for you, even if it was hidden beneath all that hurt. You were her first love Wyatt, and the timing may have been off back then but I honestly believe without a single doubt in my mind that you’ve been her only love. So go get the girl, and stop worrying so much about her dying no or thinking the worst. Because being with you, loving you, it’s easy for her, and it’s what she wants. Don’t doubt it, embrace it.”
Anna turned away from me and walked back to her station leaving me alone with the words I hadn’t expected her to share. Anna is always sassy and to be honest I rarely know when the woman is being serious. But just then she floored me with the advice I’d needed more than anything else.
Pulling up in the driveway I gathered my thermos and cooler from the passenger seat and walked toward the back door. Gus waited for me just inside and began jumping up on me for attention.
“He just went out fifteen minutes ago,” Sadie’s voice echoed down the hallway.
Taking off my shoes and coat, I moved down the hall and found Sadie standing near the kitchen sink. The smell of something cooking filtrated my senses and my stomach growled. This was the life I wanted, coming home to find my girl looking comfortable in our home. Our kids playing in the living room with Gus standing guard.
“Something smells good.” Rounding the island in the middle of the kitchen I placed my hand on the small of her back. Turning her face toward me I kissed her lips and hugged her from her good side. I know that the stitches have healed, and the ache in her arm and shoulder has subsided but I