“Yes.”
“Uh, huh.”
“I want that.”
“Sawyer…”
I swallow hard. “Talk to me.”
“I-I want that too, but the Nomad Brothers… Brew and Haze definitely won’t understand, I’m like a little sister to them.”
“I’ll make them understand if that’s what you want.”
“I love being with you,” she whispers. “I don’t want anyone else, and I can’t do the ‘just friends’ thing anymore, not after this.” She juts her hips up and I laugh. “There is no going back after that.”
“So, we’re a thing?”
“Yes, we’re a thing, but we have to work out what to do with the brothers.”
I bury myself in her hair. “I don’t care about them, plus, Logan has my back, it’ll be okay.”
“Well, we are grown adults,” she adds. “They need to just chill. I’m not a little girl anymore, I’ve proved my worth at Nomad Security, and I’ve quit my bad ways.”
Our eyes meet. “Oh, I don’t mind you bein’ a little bad,” I muse. “But only in the bedroom.”
She doesn’t hide her smile, and I love how her eyes sparkle when she looks down at me. “I need to sleep now.”
“So soon?”
Her eyes widen. “Soon? We’ve been all over each other for hours.”
“Well, better catch some of those z’s,” I tell her, putting my arms around her as she closes her eyes. “Because there’s a heck of a lot more where that came from tomorrow.”
She wriggles against my chest, trying to get closer, murmuring something as her breathing evens out.
And that’s how the night ends. Us wrapped around one another, my dick still inside her as we both fall asleep happy and content.
I wake up with a start, not knowing where I am for a second. Then, I smell coconut and vanilla, and I realize Nova is draped across my chest, her hair in my face. At some point in the night I slid out of her, much to my disappointment because am I now a goddamn somnophiliac?
Not so much her sleeping with my dick inside her, just us not disconnecting. I can deal with that, what I can’t deal with is Nova leaving my side.
Maybe the claiming talk was a little too soon, but I need to make it clear that this isn’t something I want her doing with anyone else. I’ll kill anyone who touches her.
Nova murmurs against my cheek and then turns in my arms, her back to my front. My god. This is what real happiness feels like. Having my girl in my bed, naked with nothing between us.Her letting me come inside her, trusting me as I do her, it broke through to me. I have her to thank for it.
I kiss the back of her head, my dick pressing against her ass crack. She wiggles a little and I grip her hip with one hand.
“Sawyer?” she whispers.
“Yeah, baby?”
“Put it inside me.”
She didn’t.
She couldn’t know.
But shedoesknow.