She Loves Me (Harmony Pointe #3) - Melissa Foster Page 0,92
about you.”
She nodded. “In my heart, I believe that. But my heart has been wrong before.”
“The great thing about hearts is that with the right care, they can heal.” He pressed a kiss over her heart and as he kissed her belly, her stomach growled.
She covered it with her hand.
He moved her hand and kissed her there. “I’d better go make you dinner.” He kissed her slow and deep, then said, “Don’t worry about saying the right things. Just do what you feel and you can’t go wrong.”
CHAPTER NINETEEN
“HEY, HARLEY, I need a round of Sam Adams for table ten.” Murphy Daly was from New England, and Harley came out as Haahley. She was a few inches shy of six feet tall and as outgoing as she was beautiful. She was always doing different things with her long blond hair, and today she wore it in four thick braids, secured in a thick mass at the base of her neck.
“Coming right up.” It was late Wednesday afternoon, and Harley’s ankle was significantly better. When he spent too much time on his feet, he had twinges of pain, but for the most part, he was doing well and was glad to no longer need the walking boot or the crutches.
Murphy leaned on the bar, watching him as he filled the order. When he set the drinks on the bar, she collected them on her tray, her hazel eyes sailing over him. “I like this new look on you.”
Harley rubbed his beard, which he’d trimmed that morning after leaving too many whisker burns on Piper’s thighs.
“Not the beard,” she said. “Although I do like the trim. I meant the I’m-way-too-happy-for-my-own-good vibe you’re giving off these days. Piper must not only be good to you, but good for you.”
“That she is,” he said, and as Murphy went to deliver the drinks, he thought about Piper. She’d spent the night Saturday and Sunday, but Monday she’d insisted on going home to find her own headspace again.
Harley was learning that finding her own headspace really meant she was scared and needed to try to rein in her emotions. Good luck with that, he’d thought at the time. He knew there was no going back for him, but he hadn’t been quite as certain about Piper when she’d shown up at the pub last night with Kase and a few of the guys they worked with and had barely given Harley a kiss hello. She sat at the bar watching the playoff game and joking with the guys as Harley tended to customers, just like old times. He’d started to wonder if she was making a statement, drawing some sort of line in the sand between work and their relationship. But he needn’t have worried, because he’d felt the difference through her sexy glances and stolen touches across the bar. When she’d excused herself to the ladies’ room, the secret invitation in her eyes had been seen only by him. They’d barely made it into his office before their mouths had collided. They were insatiable in the bedroom and out, but last night they’d kissed for only a minute before she’d said she missed him and Jiggs and that it had felt weird to sleep without him. She said she’d found her headspace and was free later if he wasn’t too tired to see her.
As if that were even a consideration.
He’d realized that when she’d come into the pub, it hadn’t been a line she was drawing in the sand that had her keeping her lips to herself. She’d been finding the courage to jump over that line.
Their insatiability had bled into all parts of their lives. They craved time together for more than just sex. When she’d come over last night, they’d taken Jiggs for a walk and then they’d driven out to an overlook on the edge of town and sat in the back of his truck on a blanket talking and kissing for hours. It was then that he’d realized there was no going back for her, either.
His cell phone rang, startling him from his reverie. Delaney’s name appeared on the screen. “Hey, Dee. How are you feeling?”
“Good. It’s going to take a while for the pain and fatigue to subside, but I’m better every day.”
“I’m glad to hear it. Not a day passes that I don’t thank God for clear margins.”
“Me too,” she said. “Want to hear something weird? I was sitting outside with the girls. Jolie was kicking a soccer ball