Page 120 of Is It Casual Now?

“I don’t know. Is it?”

“Huh?” Siena could have smacked herself in the forehead for that inarticulate response.

Jamie shook her head. “Sorry, it’s nothing.”

“Hey,” Siena pulled Jamie back as she tried to walk away. “Baby, please don’t do that.”

“Don’t do what?” Jamie asked, cold fire sparking behind the crystal of her eyes.

“Don’t dismiss what you’re thinking or feeling. Please tell me what’s wrong.”

Jamie’s shoulders dropped, and the defensiveness she had carried with her since Siena had opened the door dropped away. “I just had this feeling you were hiding something from me, and my mind kind of spiraled I guess.”

“Oh.” Siena cradled Jamie’s cheek in her hand.

Jamie pushed into the touch and closed her eyes.

“I’m so sorry, but please trust me. I only left the room because I couldn’t concentrate on what I needed to work out with your gorgeous body laid out so temptingly beside me.”

“Really?” Hope flared in those beautiful eyes. Eyes Siena would willingly gaze into for forever. And hoped to.

“I’m insatiable when it comes to you. Haven’t you figured that out yet?” Siena asked.

Jamie smiled, and a small chuckle escaped her lips. “I may have suspected once or twice over the last year.”

“Suspected?” Siena feigned insult. She removed her hand from Jamie’s face and pressed it, spread, against her chest. “Well, we just might need to do something to amend that.”

“Oh really?” Jamie laughed, that cocky smirk lighting up her entire face once more.

“Mommy?” Harley’s panicked voice came from the bedroom down the hall.

“Go.” Jamie’s face instantly shifted from seductress to stepmom.

Siena couldn’t love her more. She kissed Jamie’s lips hard and fast, a promise of things to come, before she raced down the hall to Harley’s room.

If she ever had any concerns about Jamie truly being her person and the person she could spend forever with, they vanished every time she saw her interact with Harley. Or like tonight, the way she reacted with Harley’s concerns always coming first. Never hesitating and never expecting Siena to have to choose between the two of them.

They were already a family, and Siena couldn’t wait to make that as official as she possibly could.

Jessie had also become the most loved Aunty Siena could have ever hoped for Harley. The woman spoiled the girl, and Siena saw the love shining from Jessie’s eyes. She’d also seen the sadness at times when Jessie thought no one noticed.

Maybe once the proposal had been figured out, Jessie and Siena could get to know each other better, and Siena could help to understand the most important person in Jamie’s life. Just as Jamie understood Harley and made every effort to make sure Siena’s daughter knew how much she was loved and wanted when she was at Siena’s.

“Mommy.” Harley wrapped her arms around Siena’s neck and buried herself into her mother’s chest.

“Another nightmare, Batman?” Siena asked softly as she brushed her fingers lightly through her daughter’s sweaty hair.

She felt the nod and the shuddering breath from her daughter and held on just a little bit tighter.

“Mommy, can you stay in here with me tonight?” Harley asked as she yawned, her eyes and body already growing heavy and limp in Siena’s arms.

“Of course, she can,” Jamie said as she stood in the doorway of Harley’s room.

“Are you sure?” Siena mouthed.

Jamie smiled and nodded.

“Mommy Jamie.” Harley yawned and wriggled back into her bed, pulling Siena down to curl around her as she did.

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