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“Love you,” I murmured, snuggling more into the pillow.
Gentle fingers ran through my hair. “Love you too, Sawyer. Sleep well.”
I hummed, already swirling into the mist of dreams.
CHAPTER 29
Ash
Sunlight cut through the window above our heads. I blinked and shifted, body humming with satisfaction as I woke. I’d sleptreallygood.
I stretched with a happy sigh, and my arm bumped into Sawyer’s shoulder. He snorted and shifted away, still fast asleep.
Right. He’d spent the night. My heart quickened. After I’d fucked him. After we’d said we loved each other.
That wasn’t a dream, right?
I rolled to my side and pressed up against his back. “You alive?”
He grunted.
I pressed kisses across his upper back, then nuzzled into his neck. “You passed out last night.”
“Mm.”
I slipped an arm over him, drawing my fingers down his chest. “Was I too much for you to handle?”
I froze with my hand on his stomach. “Or maybe—maybe all the love stuff was?—”
Sawyer rolled over and covered my body with his. He clasped his hands around my wrists, pressing them above my head.
“I can handle anything you throw at me.”
His hair was sticking up on one side and plastered flat on the other, and he had a crease running down his right cheek.
But he was the most gorgeous thing I’d ever seen.
His eyes gleamed as he leaned in to nip at my throat. “As for all the love stuff…”
“Y-yeah?” I asked, voice stuttering as he moved his lips down my chest.
“Let me show you how much.”
Then he was slipping beneath the sheets, parting my legs, and putting his mouth to very good use.
“You really do love me,” I teased when he resurfaced.
He grinned sheepishly. “I didn’t get much chance to show you last night. You spoiled me too good.”
I smoothed his hair back from his face and kissed him, tasting the bitter flavor of my pleasure on his tongue. “It’s impossible to spoil you too much.” I paused. “Plus, you let me fuck you.”
He snorted. “Letyou. Like I wasn’t dying to have you inside me.”
I smiled cockily. “Dying, huh?”
To my surprise, he didn’t take the bait. He held my gaze. “Yeah, Ash. I needed you.”
His honesty was too much. My eyes burned. “I want to be everything you need.”
