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“I love you,” I murmured against her mouth in a lazy, open kiss.
The moment was slow and sensual as I rocked into her, feeling the brush of her nipples on my chest and savoring the way she began to tremble. I knew her body. I knew just what she needed. I waited until I felt her shudder deeply and go completely still for a millisecond before she cried out. I captured her cry with a kiss, and my own release sizzled like burning lightning.
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Tessa
Adam held me close as my climax rolled through me in deep, rippling waves, the pleasure bone-deep. It went far beyond pure physical release with the emotional intensity feeding into the fire of my release until I collapsed against him.
His fingers tightened in my hair when I felt him rock into me one last time, and the heat of his release filled me as he shuddered and jerked against me. I didn’t know how long we stayed like that—joined and wrapped together. I just wanted to breathe with him, to feel completely at one with him.
Eventually, I lifted my head. He was right there, waiting for me, brushing my tangled hair away from my cheeks and kissing me.
Because it was this kind of love, when my stomach growled, his lips curled in a slow smile. “When’s the last time you ate?”
“I don’t even know.”
After we disentangled ourselves, Adam ordered pizza, and we ate it on my bed with the box between us. Eric must’ve been exhausted because he didn’t even wake up when the delivery person rang the doorbell.
I fell asleep, warm and safe, in Adam’s embrace. For the first time in years, I wasn’t worried about what might happen the next day. The details would work themselves out.
Chapter Forty
Tessa
“Well?” McKenna pressed, her eyes twinkling with a sly gleam.
“Well, what?” I countered.
My friend rolled her eyes and nudged me with her elbow before she shifted her gaze to Adam who stood on my other side holding my hand.
“Can you just admit it? Are you engaged? What’s the plan?” she asked.
A laugh sputtered out. “What do you mean?”
McKenna let out a little sigh. “I admitted it when I broke our pact.”
“Pact?” Adam prompted.
“Tessa and I had a pact.” Out of reflex, we bumped fists quickly. “Neither one of us was ever going to have a relationship. And then, I met Jack.” McKenna’s cheeks went a little pink as Jack strolled up behind her, slipped his arms around her waist, and dusted a kiss on the side of her neck.
“Ohhhhh,” Adam said slowly. I felt my own cheeks heating when I met his eyes. “It completely makes sense.”
Although his eyes twinkled, I could feel the sincerity threaded within the laughter. It did make sense for me at the time.
I glanced back at McKenna. “I broke the pact, but I have no idea when we’re getting engaged or anything like that.”
McKenna let out an impatient sigh. “I would love to plan another wedding.”
“You got a black eye at the last wedding you planned,” Blake said as he approached our group.
McKenna giggled. “It was totally an accident and all Jack’s fault.”
Jack chuckled. A woman waiting in line nearby looked askance at Jack. “I did open a door into McKenna’s face, but it was truly an accident.”
Adam reached over, tugging lightly on the end of McKenna’s ponytail as he commented, “When the time is right, we’ll let you know.”
I smiled up at him just as Rhys and Haven came walking in. We hadn’t planned to meet this way, but Spill the Beans Café was the heartbeat of Fireweed Harbor, so it wasn’t a surprise that we all ended up here on a chilly autumn morning.