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Cade starts jumping on the bed, he is so excited. Every moment with him is filled with so much joy.

“We’re celebrating, then I’m driving you home to pick up your stuff.”

“What, tonight?” I laughed.

“Yes,” he confirms, pinning me to the bed. He begins kissing my neck slowly. It doesn’t take long for me to be completely naked, or for Cade to bury his face between my thighs.

“Cade, it’s too much,” I cry out. “I can’t be screaming here. My friends and your friends live in this house.”

“Just wait until you hear your friends screaming,” he retorts, and I fully think he is joking so I laugh. “I’m serious, Annie. We all just try to plug our ears.”

“You’re serious.”

“Dead serious.” He goes back to eating my pussy like a starved man. He has me writhing and cursing and when I go over the edge, I don’t know how loud I am because I’m lost to his tongue, to the feel of his fingers pumping in and out of me. I am lost to Cade.

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

Cade

The rest of the semester and graduation flew by in a blur. We won the Frozen Four. I graduated along with Annie, Charlie, Finn, and Hayden. Finn and Hayden knew where they were headed to the NHL. I had no clue. Minnesota wanted me but I had to commit to being a defenseman. I knew what that meant. They wanted me to be an enforcer. I almost took the spot because Annie got into veterinary school in Minnesota, but she knew how unhappy I was playing in that role and she didn’t want me to accept something I wasn’t happy with. Annie also wasn’t sold on going to school in Minnesota. She was accepted to the veterinary school at Riverside U and as much as she wanted to get away from the place a number of months ago, it was also close to her family farm. With her mother moving into the city, she wanted to go home more often because she worried about her dad.

Instead of going back to Colorado after graduation, I went back to the farm with Annie. The farm in the summer was a whole different ball game. The land was green. The animals roamed around and her dad took me under his wing and taughtme about the dairy. It was a different pace of life, but one I was enjoying very much.

Annie moved into the guest room with me. She assured me her dad was okay with it since we were in a committed relationship. By night I had the woman I loved in my arms, and by day I was working the land. A sense of contentment washed over me, except I wanted to make Annie my wife. Having her as my girlfriend was no longer enough.

One morning, I was out with her dad, watching the cows being milked when I say to him, “Sir, I want to marry your daughter.”

“And what does my Annie want?” he asks me in return.

“I know she loves me, but I haven’t floated the idea by her yet,” I admit.

He barks out a loud laugh. “Son, I think you need to make sure my daughter is on the same page as you. I know she loves you with all her heart, but is she ready for that step? She’s starting school in September. I’m weeks away from bankrupting this farm, and you don’t know what team you’re going to land on. I’d say things are up in the air.”

He isn’t wrong. “About the farm. . .I was thinking . . . I could ask my dad for a loan. I could pay him back once I make the money back this year. I know how much this place means to Annie. She told me she wants to raise a family here, and I love that idea. I just want to do everything to make her happy.”

“I think this is a conversation you need to be having with my daughter before you have it with me. Everything you said seems sensible, but Annie is the type of woman who likes to make her own decisions. I’ve taught her to be a free thinker and so, at the end of the day, she needs to do what’s good for her.”

“I hear that. I’m kind of scared of her reaction,” I confess.

He barks out another laugh. “That’s not a bad thing, son.” He claps my shoulder. I don’t know what he means by that statement, but I figure he is laughing so it isn’t a bad thing.

“We need to talk,”I say to Annie after dinner. We are a couple of weeks out from the draft. Even though I don’t know which city I’ll end up in, I have other parts of my life I need to feel are in order.

“This sounds serious,” she says. We are sitting in the family room about to watch a movie, but I had to get this off my chest.

“It’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately,” I admit.

She shifts to face me, giving me her full attention. “What’s going on?”

“I want things between us to be more permanent,” I begin, feeling nervous.

“What do you mean, like exclusive? We have been from the start. Even when this wasn’t real,” she reminds.

“I think even when we weren’t real, we were real. I’m pretty sure that kiss in Fair Shot sealed the deal for me,” I confess.

“It was a hot kiss and the way you pulled me into you and we got lost.” She sighs, her gaze dropping to my lips. I know that look. She’s horny. We have a hard time keeping our hands to ourselves, but tonight has to be different. There are things I need to say.

“It was hot. I knew that night how attracted I was to you.”

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