Page 50 of Your Soul to Keep

“You didn’t tell me there’s a zipline!” I looked at it critically. “It’s not that bad. It’s a short run.”

He chuckled. “I’m glad you’re feeling more confident.”

I narrowed my eyes. “What? What aren’t you telling me?”

He dipped his chin. “Shae-baby, would I keep anything from you?”

I snorted. “Yes.”

It was a short zipline. I barely had time to scream before my feet hit the platform.

We continued on, at one point we were so far ahead of the group behind us, we took time to sit and stare out over the treetops.

Then he hauled me to my feet. “One more challenge and then we’ll zip down.”

“Another zipline, hm?”

That next platform was huge in comparison to the rest. And thank the good Lord, because the zipline was ridiculous. Skimming the treetops, it crossed the river and flew over the beach below before depositing us close to where we began.

“It’s a good thing I didn’t see that before we started,” I murmured.

“I might have blocked your view,” he teased, turning me around. “Here.” Taking the camera off his helmet, he strapped it onto mine. “I want you to have this memory from your own point of view.”

I nodded even as my teeth began to chatter.

His brows lowered. “You okay?”

“I think so.”

He cupped his hands around my face. “You got this, Shae-baby.”

I nodded again. “I think I need to go first.”

“I’ll be right behind you,” he promised.

I stepped off the platform and whooped as the wind snatched me away over the treetops.

I flew so high I swear I caught the sun.

Buoyant and filled with light, my seatbelt barely held me on the way home.

“Did you see me? Did you see me, Gabe?”

A wide grin split his handsome face. “I saw you, Shae-baby.”

I shadow-boxed the windshield of his truck. “I killed it. I was amazing!”

“You were,” he agreed, chuckling.

He’d barely pulled the truck into my driveway when I jumped out and skipped up to the door where I wrestled with my key in the lock.

“This thing keeps getting stuck,” I complained, desperate to get inside and watch the footage from the camera.

The heat of his body covered my back sending an alert to every single one of my senses. Video be damned. It was long past time to take him to bed and I was done waiting.

His big hands wrapped around my hips and pulled my ass tight to his groin. “Hurry up, Shae-baby,” he murmured against my neck.

I shivered and doubled my efforts, finally managing to unlock the door. Tumbling through, I pulled him inside and kicked it shut before jumping into his arms and slamming my mouth over his.

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