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“Nah, baby,” he replied. “But I might need therapy after this.”

I laughed. “I mean… we are in therapy. You should bring this up next session. I’m sure Dr. Aldridge would love to hear how we bonded over this.”

“Bonded?” He twisted his lips, giving me the universal yeah right expression. “I’m over here hooking up hoses to places where my wife and I dropped shit off—literally.”

I gagged. “Hassani!”

“And she’s standing over there, sipping coffee and laughing while I risk my life.”

I sipped my coffee on cue. “Baby, risking your life is a stretch.”

He laughed as he turned back to the hose, opening the valve.

“What now?”

He smiled. “We let it do its thing.”

“Is it okay to do this here?”

“It is,” he replied, pulling off his gloves as he walked back to me. “This site was made for this—I mapped it out before we even got here.”

Hassani stood in front of me, looking as good as ever, even handling one of the nastiest tasks I’d ever seen him handle.

And somehow, I thought it was so damn sexy.

He caught my look.

“Oh, I know that look.” He smirked, tossing his gloves over his shoulder.

I stood on the arches of my feet and pressed my lips to his.

Hassani wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me close.

“I don’t know what it is, but seeing you be about this camp life is so damn sexy.”

“Yeah?”

“Mm-hmm.” I wrapped my free arm around his neck. “Very much so.”

He pecked my lips.

“Thanks for handling this, because I don’t even want to know what would happen if we had a plumbing situation in this RV.”

“I would never let my woman deal with something like that.”

I smiled up at him.

“See, this is when I’d scoop you up, take you into that private room up there, and do everything to you except let you rest…” Hassani shrugged. “Which… we could still do, because she ain’t here.”

I tossed my head back in a laugh.

We didn’t do it that night.

Hadn’t done it at all during this trip.

Aside from that one moment, Hassani and I had been good. Intentional. This trip was about reconnecting, and we had.

And honestly?

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