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“If you’d let me come inside when we got here, you’d already be in bed,” I whispered in her ear, then nipped her lobe.

“I told you when we were at the hospital picking up my car that you didn’t need to follow me home. Now look at what your stubbornness has done. You’ve kept me on the porch for thirty minutes. If I’d let you in, I still wouldn’t be asleep. That is why you are on the porch and not crossing through the doorway. And didn’t we decide to treat this as a normal dating situation, and agreed we wouldn’t spend every night together?”

“You decided that. I remember saying I would stay at your place Sunday night through Thursday night and make the drive to Black Hawk since you work in town. And you would come to Black Hawk and stay with me Friday and Saturday nights.”

“We can’t spend every minute together. Trust me, you would be sick of me inside a month.”

“Not a chance. And we wouldn’t be with each other every minute because you work during the week, and so do I. What did you misinterpret today with me saying I liked getting to hold you? I’m trying to go slow, Mac, but everything in me is wanting to push you hard.”

Mac chuckled. “If you can’t be separated from me, what are you going to do next weekend when I go shopping with Bailey and the others?”

“I’m going to sit in my house and pout.”

“Oh, I’d love to see that.”

“Don’t go shopping Saturday and I’ll pout just for you. I’ll even pout while I’m going down on—”

“Stop, stop, stop,” Mac said, laughing and cutting me off as she smacked my arm.

“Fine, I’ll go so you can go inside your lonely house and get into your lonely bed.Afteryou give me a goodnight kiss. I hear couples who aredatingdo that,” I said, and Mac sighed.

“One kiss, then you’ll let me go inside. Promise?”

“I promise.”

“Alright.”

Twenty minutes more minutes passed by when the door slammed on Mac’s condo, and I listened as the locks clicked. The smile stayed on my face the entire way back to Black Hawk. Maybe the dating shit wouldn’t be that bad after all.

Chapter Twelve

Mac

“Ireally had fun. Thanksfor inviting me along,” I said as we pulled up at Sami’s house.

“It was fun, but I’m not sure Kane is going to see it that way when I tell him how much I spent,” Sami said as she parked the Expedition.

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