Page 90 of Broken Heart

“Love you, Skye.”

Her gaze darkened, her lips parting slightly before she whispered, “I love you, too.”

With one arm still clamped firmly around her waist, my other hand moved from her ass around to her hip and up the side of her body, landing at her tit. My thumb swept across her nipple, my mouth finding hers again as I continued to power into her.

It built and built, and the next thing I knew, Skye’s legs were tightening around my waist, her nails digging in deeper at my shoulders. Her breathing grew shallow, her moaning turning to whimpering.

She was on the verge, and I was right there with her. “Are you going to come for me, sweetheart?”

“Please, don’t stop,” she begged. “I’m so close.”

I went at her harder, driving my hips forward with wild abandon until it hit, and we were both riding the wave as our orgasms tore through us. My mouth kissed the skin along the side of her throat as I came down, my lips lingering on her rapid pulse there.

The moment I regained some of my wits about me, I pushed off from the door with Skye still in my arms and moved through the house and toward the couch. I lowered myself to my back, Skye on top of me, and only after we were settled there did she speak.

“That was nice,” she murmured.

I grinned at her. “Nice?”

She beamed at me. “Fantastic.”

Laughing, I returned, “Much better. Are you okay?”

“Why would I not be?” Skye countered.

My fingers traveled slowly up and down her back as I answered, “I’m referring to what happened outside before and immediately after I got here.”

She inhaled a deep breath, considered her response, and finally confirmed, “I’m more than okay. I mean, obviously, I was annoyed he showed up here after I thought I made it clear to Maria where I stood. I didn’t like that he wasn’t listening to me, but I don’t think I’ll have that to worry about any longer. On the plus side, the way you stepped in to handle the situation for me allowed me to see another part of you that I hadn’t seen before. And I liked that. Not so much that you had to do it, but that you did what you had to do to look out for me. I like that, Cooper. No, I love it. I love that I have someone like you in my life now.”

“And I love that you’ve allowed me to be part of your life.”

“I’d be a fool not to,” she said. “Nobody has ever loved me the way you do. This whole relationship, even if it’s only been a couple months, has been the best thing to ever happen to me. It actually makes me excited.”

My brows pulled together. “Excited?”

Skye gave me a nod. “I love this place we’re in with our relationship right now, and I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes. I wonder if it’s always going to be like this and how we’ll grow and change as a couple.”

She was thinking ahead.

Nothing could have made me happier. I liked knowing that Skye envisioned, in some way, a future for us. I was just as eager to see where our lives would take us.

We sat in silence for a while, both of us simply enjoying being in each other’s presence. Though I couldn’t say if it was the case for Skye, I was certainly taking that time to consider what that future would look like.

That’s when I glanced across the room, saw the pictures, and a thought popped into my head.

“How would they feel?” I asked.

Skye lifted her head from my chest and gazed at me curiously. “What?”

I jerked my head to the side and focused my attention on the pictures she had displayed there. “Your family. I was wondering how you think they’d feel about me, specifically me for you. Do you think they’d like me? Would they approve of me?”

Tears filled her eyes. The last thing I’d wanted to do was upset Skye. Over the last couple of months, I’d had moments when I thought about her family, and it had almost always been about them not being here, how I couldn’t believe Skye had suffered through so much strife and still grew to be the woman she was now. There wasn’t a doubt in my mind they were responsible for her being the woman I’d fallen in love with. But it was only now, as I was considering our future, when I wondered how they’d feel about me. Would they think I was worthy of her?

“They’d love you, Cooper.” Skye’s voice was just a touch over a whisper, her emotions getting the best of her.

I hugged her tightly, wanting to comfort her. “Really?”

She nodded. “Obviously, there are certain things I never had the opportunity to talk to my parents about since I was so young when they passed. But I remember what I saw.”