Page 35 of Inevitable

Brady looked at his brother and noticed the hard expression on his face. Confronting Lilly’s stalker and shooting her hadn’t been easy for Brock, but there hadn’t been another choice. When someone raises a gun and threatens your woman, there is only one solution. “Let’s go into the conference room and lay this thing out step by step.” Brady heard murmurs of agreement, picked up his iPad, and waited for everyone to leave the room. When it was just he and Claire, he walked over and planted a kiss on her sweet lips. She didn’t fight him too much, so he figured that she was getting used to his constant need to show her affection. “Have a good afternoon. I’ll come and get you at the end of the day.”

“I’m thinking about arguing with you, but that would be silly because it turns out I like you hovering around me like a storm.”

“A storm?”

“Yeah, your whirling energy threatening to overtake me whenever you’re near.”

“Is that a good thing or a bad thing?” he asked cautiously.

“So far, it’s good ’cause I like when you overtake me.” She pulled him closer and kissed his cheek. “Especially when I can’t tell where you stop and I begin. When you are buried so deeply in my body that I think we’re one. The moment when our breaths collide and we explode simultaneously.”

There wasn’t a working brain cell in his head. Claire had swept away his cognitive function with the words she used to describe what happened to them every time they were together. She was absolutely right. When they were intimate, it wasn’t just about their bodies joining. It was about their spirits and hearts, too. He never would’ve put it so eloquently, and she was dead-on. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close. “I’m never going to get enough of you, darlin’. Never.”

When she held him close, he decided that was answer enough. Sometimes there were no words and he figured this was one of those times. He and Claire were on the precipice of falling completely for each other and that wasn’t anything the English language could describe. That he knew for sure.

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