page26 (1/2)

“Thank you,” I whisper

“You’re welcohten around my waist as she tilts her head back to look up at ain, okay? Or at least not for a long, long time”

“Why would anyone fight with an angel like you?” I ask with a grin

Lark narrows her eyes, but her lips stretch into a s to? I’m the wo for three hours I ht”

“Nope You’re a good one, Lark, I don’t care what all those other people say”

She laughs “People don’t say a thing, Mason Stewart”

“They don’t know you like I do”

“Oh yeah?” She leans closer, her soft curves pressing againstmy head spin “So you think I’m a little devilish after all?”

My pulse beats faster “Maybe A little”

“Speaking of devilish, you knohat I miss?”

“What?” I murmur

“Your truck,” she says in a low voice “We had soood times in that truck”

I rele second of thes in the bed of my old red Chevy, every kiss, every caress, every tihed as my lips trailed down her throat

“I’ll tradeto every word

“Don’t be ridiculous” She stands on tiptoe to press a kiss toin a whisper, “I do have an apartment of my own, you know I don’t live with Mo over to help Aria with the baby while they’re out of town”

“Oh, yeah?” I ask, skith of her back

“Yeah Maybe you’ll get to seevoice as she spins out of my arms and starts around the fire “Co by the cooler, I’”

Until a , too But now all I can think about is being alone with Lark in her apart the firelight flickering over her bare skin, knowing she’d be so beautiful it would hurt to look at her, thinking about what part of her I’d kiss first, where my hands would—

“Mason?” she asks “Bowls?”

I blink “Right Bowls” I jerk into hts back to food and caer in the cooler for a few ers will help cool me off