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“I missed you,” she breathes as her hand comes to my face.

I press a soft kiss to her lips. “Not as much as I missed you.”

Her hands pull me to her mouth as her legs wrap around my hips. It doesn’t take long for her to pull my clothes off and for me to slide into her.

We make love as quietly as we can and I hold her tight against me as she drifts off to sleep after. “I love you, Mar.”

“The tide brought us together,” she whispers before falling asleep.

I listen to the water hit the shoreline off the beach. A different ocean but one that brought me back to her nonetheless.

Chapter Thirty-Two

Mari

It’s been two weeks since I woke up with Landon clinging to my body. I hated every morning waking up to cold sheets. The desolate nights that seemed to stretch on for days. I thought I would never get to feel his arms around me again. Feel the heat of his breath against my neck. Feel his heart beating only for me.

But as I see the sun creep up over the horizon, I breathe a sigh of relief that this man is entangled with me again.

I don’t know how I fell so fast. Maybe it was the way our bodies connected. Or the way our souls did. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything. This moment right here tells me this is right.

We’ve only been asleep a few hours. His late night intrusion was a welcome surprise. I yawn as I spin over to face him. I trace my fingers along his strong, square jaw, over his pronounced cheekbone, and up along his brow where a faint scar sits.

“Go back to sleep,” he whispers, his eyes still closed.

I smile even though he can’t see me. “The kids will wake up soon.”

“We’ve barely slept,” he mutters.

“That’s not my fault.”

He opens his dark eyes at that and I can see the lust and need in them. He grabs my ass and pulls me into him so I can feel the hardness between us. “I am pretty sure this is because of you.”

“You didn’t have to sneak into my room last night.”

“Mar, just the thought that you were within my grasp had me hard. I couldn’t not see you.”

“Te amo.” I press my lips to his, my tongue eagerly diving into his mouth. I throw a leg over his hip, needing to be as close to him as possible.

“I guess I should sneak out of here before the kids wake up?”

I nod. “It’s probably a good idea. But even more so before my mother wakes up. You do not want to hear her yelling if she finds you in here.”

He smirks at me. “Has that happened before?”

I bite my lip before I laugh. “Not since high school.”

He smacks my ass. “Well, I know for a fact if we got caught it would be worth it. There is no way you had sex like that in high school.”

I click my tongue. “You never know.”

“If I didn’t know you were lying, I would fuck the correct answer right out of you,” he says as he grabs his clothes.

I get up on my knees and wrap my arms over his shoulders as he buttons his pants. “Maybe we can do that later. When there is no one around.”

“That can be arranged.” He pulls his shirt over his head and slides on his boots while I watch. “I’ll see you in a bit. I love you.”

“What do you mean ‘in a bit’?”

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