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“And I can stay here? With you and Grandpa Jack?”

“Babygirl, this is your home. No matter what, you can always stay here. Understand me?”

“I’m scared too,” she whispered. “That I’ll wake up and it will all be a dream. That something will happen and you won’t want to be with me anymore. That I’ll lose all this. I know it’s notmine and I haven’t been here long, but I love it here and I love Grandpa Jack.”

“I know you do. And I know that it’s scary to risk that. But if you give me a chance, I promise I’m going to do all that I can to make this work.”

“You only live one life,” she whispered.

“And I want to spend that one life with you.”

Chapter Seventeen

Stafford carried her inside.

He really was taking this ‘taking care of her’ stuff seriously.

And Blakely loved it.

She was lapping it up like someone who had been starved of affection all her life.

Which, for a lot of her twenty-six years, she had been.

She stared up at him in fascination.

“You studying my wrinkles, babygirl?”

“No, just looking at the most perfect man in the world.”

He snorted. “I’m definitely not that.” He managed to get into his bedroom and shut the door without having to put her down.

Her man had mad skills.

Sitting her on the bed, he took a step back and slowly started to strip. She clapped her hands. “Ooh, a show.”

He grinned. “Only fair after the magic show you gave that I return the favor.”

“You’re going to do some tricks?” she asked.

“I might know one or two. Most of them involve my tongue, though.”

“Hmm, I’m not sure I know any magic tricks with my tongue,” she said in a slightly breathless voice as he continued to strip off.

The man was built.

She ran her gaze over his broad shoulders, down his firm chest and muscular stomach. He had a small amount of chest hair.

Just enough in her opinion.

Of course, she might be biased.

As he undid his belt, her breath caught. She adored his hands. Wide and masculine.

And they knew a few tricks too.

“Like what you see, darlin’?” he murmured.

She licked her lips. “Oh, yes. More, please.”

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