Page 80 of All I Need

“How do we do this?”

“Well, I’d say the first step is,” my hand curves around the slender column of her neck. “And then a little of,” my tongue snakes out, licking the seam of her mouth. She whimpers so I take that as my cue that it’s okay to keep going. “Sometimes,” I dip her backwards and she starts laughing when I nuzzle my face in the soft skin above her collarbone.

When I stand us upright we’re both laughing and I would do anything to keep the joy on her face always.

“How we do this…”

“Yeah?”

“When we’re at the clinic we keep it professional, but lucky for me, I own the place. I have nothing to hide but if you don’t want everyone to know, I’ll negotiate a timeframe for how long we wait to tell everyone. But know this, I’m not waiting long. I’m ready to stake my claim on you. It’s not as if no one suspects anything, anyway. We’ve been flirting around it for almost six weeks now. Still, I want everyone to know you’re mine.”

“How very caveman of you.”

“Yeah, well, I make no apologies for that. I want people to know.”

“I’m yours, huh?”

I rest my forehead against hers and whisper, “You are.”

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