for you.”
“Kingston, she needs her rest.” I attempt to move us around him.
Kingston raises his one hand, ignoring me. “Before you guys go play doctor and nurse, I want to know why you were driving southbound?”
Juno looks at me. Now she knows I was coming back for her.
“Did you really think I could disappear without fighting for you?” I ask her.
She leans into me, pressing her cheek to my chest. “It’s so unfair to all the women in the world that I get this guy. But I’m not trading him for anything.” Juno hugs me tighter.
“You guys are getting sickeningly sweet,” Kingston says.
“Get ready for those cavities then.” Juno takes my hand and leads us down the hallway.
Kingston says he can take us out the ambulance way, so we don’t have to go through the busy waiting room. Just as the doors open to the outside, a nurse comes out of the room to the right, losing her footing. Kingston grabs her arms to keep her from falling.
“Hey, thanks.” The nurse looks Kingston up and down, clearly liking what she sees.
He nods and watches as she continues down the hall. We walk out the sliding doors, but Kingston stays inside. “I’ll catch you two later.”
“Bye, Kington,” we say in unison, knowing what direction that situation is headed.
We walk toward my car.
“Why do you put up with me?” she asks.
I chuckle and kiss her temple. “It was never a choice. It’s just always been you.”
“Me what?” she asks.
“The one who lives in my dreams.”
She stops us. “It’s always been you too, you know that, right? I might’ve masked it, but it’s always been you in my dreams.”
“I know.”
“You do?”
“Do you think I’d waste my life chasing you if I didn’t?”
She kisses me gently and I hold my head to hers, deepening our kiss.
“You better be ready for me now that you caught me. You might want to throw me back one day.”
I bring my lips to hers again, murmuring, “Not on your life.”
Epilogue
Colton
One month later
I return home to find Juno sitting on the kitchen table in the same silk robe she wore that day her family came in and ruined her surprise for me. Her bag sits on one chair and her papers are piled in the corner of the table. Since Juno moved in a month ago, my house isn’t as neat and orderly as it once was, but I don’t care. All I care about is that she’s with me every day.
“I thought we were picking our honeymoon destination tonight,” I say.
She giggles. “We will later. Naked. In bed.” She opens her legs and it’s déjà vu all over again. “This is the redo I owe you.”
Her ring sparkles in the light and I drop my bag, walking over and picking her up. “God, I love you.”
She giggles until I ease her down on the floor by the fridge.
We’re planning to get married next month. It was Juno’s choice to have a winter wedding because she wanted to be my wife as soon as possible. I think she might be kissing my ass a little, but that’s okay. As long as she’s all right with being my wife and living with me, it’s good enough for me.
“Cherry or strawberry?” I tease her lips with the fruit I pull out of the fridge.
“Colton, you have to strip.”
“Oh shit, I forgot.” I stand and toe out of my shoes, strip off my shirt, and get rid of my pants.
“Boxers too this time,” she says.
I push them down my legs, getting naked for her while she takes the champagne and pours it down her front.
“Are we skipping over the eating part?” I ask her.
“You can eat me if you want.” She falls onto her back.
She has to be kidding me—of course I want. But there’s another part of the movie she’s forgetting. I put my hand over the ice dispenser until an ice cube comes out. She looks up and says nothing, her back arching as though she wants it.
I melt it slightly in my mouth and bend over, trailing the ice cube over her stomach, around her nipples, and up her throat. She moans and squirms underneath me.
Picking up a cherry by the stem, I hang it in front of her mouth, and she bites it off the stem. Her hand travels down my chest, palming my hard length. This is what I’ve fantasized about all day—having her under me. When I trail what’s left of the ice cube to her