“G, I want you with me at all times.”
I smiled because even though I knew he’d get sick of me if I was always around, I wanted him around me at all times, too. Those were the only times I felt complete. “Well, then it sounds like we’re stuck together.”
He sighed, and it was that exact moment that I knew he was in just as deep as I was.
“Our first date is pretty magical,” I said, taking in the view in front of us.
“It’s not a sleigh ride.”
Having the sudden urge to see him, I twisted around until I kneeled in front of him. I cupped his cheeks between my hands so his eyes were on mine. “I don’t need a sleigh ride. And I don’t need a fancy restaurant. There’s no need to pull out all the stops when you’ve already got me.”
“For how long?” he asked, a vulnerability in his gaze I wasn’t used to.
My heart stuttered. Was he serious? Didn’t he realize that I was all in? “For as long as you’ll have me.”
“So, forever,” he said.
I released a contented sigh. “Sounds perfect.”
26
THAYER
We hadn’t even made it through the door, and my mouth was on hers, backpedaling her into the living room. We had the house to ourselves for one more night. And after our conversation with Kason tomorrow, who knew if we’d ever be able to be this free around him.
Giselle laughed against my mouth as we bumped into the sofa.
I shoved off her jacket, and she pulled off my Henley.
“What the fuck?” Kason said.
We jumped apart, looking at him standing in the doorway with his mouth gaping open.
“Kase,” Giselle began.
“We need to talk to you,” I said, my heart racing in my chest.
His eyes jumped between us. “Since when the hell is there a ‘we’?”
I tugged my shirt back on. “Look, we wanted to tell you.”
“Wanted to tell me what exactly?” Kason asked, his eyes narrowed on me like he was about to kill me.
“I broke up with Gino,” Giselle said, as if that would help.
“For him?” he asked.
“I’m your best friend,” I interrupted. “Not some asshole off the street.”
“Exactly why you have no fucking right to be doing that with my sister.”
“Bro, I’d do anything for her. You gotta know that,” I said.
“And he has,” Giselle jumped in. “He left Big Bear because something happened when I went to Florida.”
Oh, fuck. I wouldn’t have led with that one.
“What?” Kason seethed, having no clue that one, she went to Florida. And two, I took off to help her.