Page 23 of Manhattan Heart

I smack his ass and laugh. “Rude, talking about other fucks while I still feel your cock twitching inside of me.” He lifts his head, his lids so damn low he’s almost asleep and he smirks his Gray smile. “I still mean it. Best ever, baby.”

We might be weird and unconventional, but I love those kinds of compliments from him.

The comedown is just as nice as I scrape my long nails along his scalp to make him groan. Gray leans in and kisses up my body, between my breasts, the line of my neck, across my jaw, and ends at my mouth, where he goes deep with his tongue.

Perfect. Every time is more perfect than the last.

After clean up and Gray checking on the boys, I’m sleepy and naked in bed waiting for him to watch a movie with me. He’s unashamedly naked too and every inch of him is solid and tanned. He strides across our bedroom and climbs into the raised bed before we meet in the middle and I find my place on his shoulder, his hand immediately travels down my ribs, slow and sure.

It’s funny to think we’ve only been sleeping—actual sleeping together for four years, yet it feels like he’s always been there next to me in bed.

The lights are out and the TV switched on.

“India?”

“Yeah?”

“Need to talk to you about something, baby.”

“Okay,” I answer sleepily, with my leg curled over his thigh.

Sleep evaporates when I hear the low seriousness in his voice when he says. “I don’t want you to worry, I mean it. But there’s a problem.”

My head comes up off his shoulder. And the steady rush of my pulse increases. His eyes searching mine tells me it’s something I absolutely have to fucking worry about.

“A problem? A problem with what?”

“It’s my heart, baby.”

His face is grave as I’ve ever seen it.

And there in the darkness of our bedroom, I suddenly realize my gut instinct was so right.

I just didn’t know how big the worry would be until the words come out of Gray.

And.

My.

Whole.

World.

Fucking.

Crashes.

C H A P T E R 7

India

Problem with his heart.

Blocked arteries.

Bypass.

Minimally invasive surgery.

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