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It’s her third orgasm and she’s too exhausted to kiss me back.

I collapse onto the bed beside her and pull her limp body against mine, holding her tight as the light from the fire flickers on her flushed skin.

She’s asleep in seconds, letting out the cutest exhausted breaths that make me fall even deeper in love with her.

I spend as long as I can holding her, watching her, smelling her hair, trying to stay awake to enjoy this momentous moment, but eventually the tiredness wins and I fall asleep next to my girl.

CHAPTER TEN

Ivy

“So, who was that guy?” Julian asks when I arrive for work in the morning, way later than usual. “And what do you mean he’s maybe your boyfriend?”

My body gets all tingly as I think about last night. It was amazing…

I can still feel Dane’s powerful hands on me turning me around and bending me over, his hot breath on my flushed skin, and his tremendous weight pushing down on me as he thrust in deep.

It takes everything I have not to moan.

“Did you go out with him?”

I sit at the desk with a sigh. “Can I have my coffee before you interrogate me?”

“No,” he says, leaning on the counter in front of me. I turn the computer on and roll my eyes.

I know my brother and he’s not going to let up on this, so I just sip my coffee as I stare him down.

“What do you want to know?”

“Who is he?”

“Dane Keaton,” I say. “He’s new in town.”

“I don’t like him,” Julian says, all grumpy.

“You haven’t even met him.”

“Yeah, but I saw him,” he says with his brow furrowed. “And I don’t like him.”

I sigh as I take a long sip of coffee. I should have called in sick. I should have stayed in bed with Dane. Knowing that I could be under those warm covers with him instead of being interrogated by my brother in this cold-ass lodge is making me question all of my life choices.

“Well, I do,” I say, getting that dreamy feeling all over again. “He’s amazing, Julian. I know it’s early, but I think he’s the one.”

Julian gets this confused look on his face and it makes me laugh. He’s never seen me like this before. I’ve never been like this before.

Usually, I’m swatting any guys away who make advances and shutting them down immediately. That’s what Julian has been seeing for years. This is all new to both of us.

“Wait,” he says, tilting his head as he looks at me with a scrunched-up face. “What?”

Someone catches my eye in the distance and I light up when I see it’s Dane. He’s walking over, looking sexy as ever in jeans and a bomber jacket carrying takeout boxes, the wind playing with his hair.

God, this man is sweet. He got up early and picked me up some breakfast from McArthur's by the look of the white boxes.

Julian sees the big dopey smile on my face and whips his head around to see what’s got me so happy. “That’s him?”

“That’s him,” I say with a warmth spreading through my chest.

I just watch him approach with lovey-dovey eyes, meanwhile Julian is breathing hard with his hands on his hips.