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She pushed her hips up until she was wriggling against my aching cock.
“I think I’d like to take a shower so we can get sweaty together all over again,” she said with a happy sigh.
Emma squealed as I rose from the bed, picked her up, and carried her toward the bathroom.
That sounded like a good idea to me.
From this day forward, I was going to make sure that my woman goteverythingshe wanted and deserved.
Chapter 23
Emma
“Inever thought I’d say this,” Brock said to me several days later. “But Marshall is so different that I almost don’t recognize him as the same guy I’ve known for years.”
It was the day before Wren was due to arrive home, and we were having a barbecue at Colin’s rental home.
Sara was working, but the guys had all managed to make it here for dinner.
The place might be within walking distance of my cottage, but the two houses were vastly different.
The rental home had a ton of space with four bedrooms.
It also boasted a sizable back yard with a large patio and a pool.
I watched Colin as he joked around about how to barbecue the steaks with Nate, Gage, and Seth in the distance.
I was lounging with Brock in large patio chairs underneath the umbrella for shade.
Colin and Ihadtaken advantage of every moment we’d spent together.
I had to admit we’d spent our fair share of time together burning up the sheets, but we’d always spent some quality time together after work just being together.
I’d shown Colin more of Cherry Cove so he was completely familiar with the town.
We’d also spent some time exploring different things in Traverse City, the biggest city in Northern Michigan.
Granted, it wasn’t a big city by national standards, but it was close to Cherry Cove and the place that most of us went to when we wanted more amenities.
I finally shot Brock a questioning gaze. “How has he changed?”
“He just laughed,” he said like that was a miracle. “And he actually smiles, Emma. That’s some crazy shit for Marshall. He seems almost…human.”
“He cares more than anyone realizes,” I told him. “I don’t think any of you ever looked deep enough to recognize it.”
Sometimes it seriously pissed me off that no one seemed to look deep enough to see therealColin.
Brock held up a hand. “In our defense, I don’t think any of us were brave enough to push him. Everyone who knows him has the highest level of respect for Marshall, but he’s also intimidating. I think we just assumed that all he thought about was business and problem solving. It’s pretty hard to see that he actually has a sense of humor.”
“It’s not that hard,” I said in an astonished voice.
Okay, Colin acted like he was emotionless at times, but I could always see through that façade as his way of protecting himself.
Brock lifted a brow. “Maybe it isn’t for you, but he doesn’t let his guard down for people in general. He was a SEAL commander. Now he’s the founder of Last Hope. I guess I should have realized that he had to care to take on those responsibilities, but I never did until you came back into his life. I think he’s actually learned how to relax.”
“He’s always known how to relax,” I explained. “He wasn’t always all business when we met. There’s a whole other side of him that very few people know. He may not be good in socialsituations sometimes, but he cares more than anyone I know. Maybe too much sometimes. He takes the responsibility of the whole world onto his shoulders sometimes.”
Brock nodded. “I can agree with that. He’s saved a lot of lives, but he never wants credit or accolades for that.”
