Page 147 of Scores Of The Heart

Even Caitlin and Liam are coming along to meet everyone.

“Are you excited about tonight?” Tyler asks me when I’m doing my makeup in his ensuite, and he’s shaving in the mirror next to me.

“Yeah, it’s sure going to be a crowd. We haven’t caught up with anyone in a few weeks.”

Mads and Ashton are back for a few days and planning a trip to Hawaii, where we all think he’s going to seriously drop the big one. They haven’t been together very long, but they’re crazy about each other.

“We had to come out of our bubble eventually,” he says.

“It’s a pity.”

“You know I could just kidnap you and keep you here forever?”

“Kinda suits that stalkery trait you have when it comes to me, doesn’t it?”

“Don’t act like you don’t want to reenact it.” He grins.

He knows how much it turned me on that he had his eye on me long before he talked to me. The fact he watched me didn’t creep me out at all. I guess that’s because I know what a great guy he is. And I’m glad I ran into him that day and spilled my coffee all over him. Who knows where we’d be if he hadn’t walked by at that moment.

”Oh, I plan to. And I’ll be wearing sexy underwear when I get to the stadium. So you’ll have to wait all day before you can rip them off me.”

“Like hell I will,” he says huskily, putting his razor down and turning toward me. He’s only dressed in a towel, and still has shaving foam on his face.

“Don’t you dare!” I squeal as he grabs me and presses his body toward me, trying to kiss me and put foam on my face. “Tyler Peterson!”

I manage to break away from him and run out of the bedroom, up the hall toward the den, but he’s way too fast. “Stop right there, Cindy Carter!” He grabs me from behind and I spin to face him. He grabs my wrists and presses me into the wall, holding them above his head and nuzzling into my neck. “Finally caught you.”

“You caught me long ago,” I sigh, not caring I have shaving foam on my skin.

He pushes his hips into me. “Ty, no! We have to go.”

“I’ll be quick, I promise.”

I laugh haughtily. “You say that every morning, but you never are.”

He snickers and kisses my flesh gently. “And that’s a bad thing, baby?”

“Nope. But I have a job to get to most mornings.”

He squeezes my breasts, pushing them in his hands. “But you don’t have a job to get to right now.” One hand skates down to my hip and I smack it away.

“We have to get downtown in less than an hour.”

He grins, pulling his towel away. We both stare down at his huge erection, which is now digging into my stomach. “You sure about that?”

I giggle as I quickly relent. My fingers can’t help but skate down toward my favorite monster, “You’d better be quick, Mister.”

“First time for everything,” he muses.

It’s been like this the entire time we’ve been together. We fit together so darned well, and we’re having a lot of fun getting to know each other in and out of the bedroom. We love taking Henry on different walks around Seattle and Mercer Island.

We’ve come a long way in a short space of time, so to walk into The Italian Spot hand in hand, after he quickly ravaged me at home, feels like an absolute dream.

Our friends are all waiting for us and we can’t wipe the smiles off our faces.

Mads lets out a hoot when she sees us and jumps out of her seat to come and hug us both. “Cindy, you look fabulous!”

“Here, here!” Andrea chines, who’s just as crazy as Mads and I love it.

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