Texting Box Set: The Complete Series
Page 93
“What? You thought I missed your not-so-subtle hint earlier?”
I grin at her and reach for her hand. “Come on upstairs. I have something for you.”
“For me? A gift? Are we Valentine’s Day gift people?”
“It’s sort of a gift for me too.”
“I already told you: no butt stuff.”
“And I said we’ll see.”
“Zach.”
“Delia.”
“It’s not butt stuff. It’s something you’ll love…I hope.”
“Fine. You’ve convinced me. Lead the way.”
I pull her behind me, leading her up the stairs. We pause at the top to move the baby gate I have up.
“What’s that for?”
“It was necessary to keep the kids downstairs.”
She eyes me warily.
“What?” I say. “You’ll see. After you.”
“After me?”
“Yep. Scoot. Don’t want it to get cold.”
Her brows scrunch together but she moves down the hall toward my bedroom. The lights are turned down low but the closer we the brighter the glow grows.
Halfway there she turns back and smiles at me. “Did you do rose petals?”
“Even better.”
“Yeah?”
“Oh yeah.”
She grins and keeps walking as I casually trail behind her.
When she rounds the entrance to my room, she lets out a loud laugh and I pick up my pace so I can see her delight.
She’s bent over, shoveling the first piece of pizza into her mouth.
“You made me a trail of pizza slices?”
I lift my shoulder. “What can I say? I know the way to your heart.”
She laughs and grabs the next plate and then the next until she’s standing by the bed with six plates of pizza and nowhere to go.
“A heart-shaped pizza? Ohmygosh You totally love me.”
Oh hell yes I do.
She peers down at the pizza on the bed again, her lips pulled back into a huge smile. I watch patiently as her eyes fall to the center of the pizza where the support sits.
Her gaze snaps to mine. “Is that…”
“Yeah.”
“Are you asking me…”
“Yeah.”
“Isn’t it too soon?”
“Do you think it is?” I counter.
She chews on her lip, staring down at the key again. “I…” A pause. “No, I don’t think so. It feels…right.”
“Yeah?”
She nods. “Yeah. It feels really right.”
I grin and stalk toward her, but she shakes her head when I’m almost there and I stop in my tracks.
“Say it.”
“Huh?”
“I want to hear you say it,” she tells me.
“You want a big fancy speech, huh?”
“Nah. Just ask.”
“Delia, my food whore who I love with my whole damn heart, will you move in with me?”
She lifts a shoulder. “I’ll think about it.”
I race toward her, swooping her into my arms, a piece of pizza she was holding smashing against us while the rest falls to the floor.
Poor pizza.
She grins down at me. “I didn’t know you were into food play. We could have brought this into the bedroom long before.
“Delia Devlin, mother of my goats, will you please move in with me? Pretty please?”
“You promise to let me eat pizza in bed at least once a week?”
“I…” Fuck. I really don’t want crumbs in there but for her… “Yes.
“And I always get the last piece?”
“Yes.”
“And you’ll share your ranch?”
“You’re walking a thin line, woman.”
She leans down and presses a quick kiss to my lips. “I love it when you call me woman like that. You growl it and it’s so sexy.”
“Oh yeah?”
She nods.
“I’ll call you woman every damn day if you move in with me.”
She leans close again and whispers, “I was going to say yes anyway, but deal.”
I go to crush my lips to hers and she pulls back, pushing at me to let her down so I do.
“No way, mister. I like a clean house.” She climbs into the bed and snags another piece of pizza, taking a bite. “Get to cleanin’.”
“Get to cleaning? Seriously? It’s Valentine’s Day. I thought we could, you know, bang.”
“Bang? Is that what we do?”
“Oh, we totally bang.”
“Good lord, Zachary.” She knows I hate it when she calls me that. “We’re not banging until all this pizza is cleaned up.”
“All of it?”
“Yep.” She winks. “Oh, and strip.”
Best. Valentine’s Day. Ever.
Thank You
I sincerely hope you enjoyed the Texting Series.
This world was a labor of love and it profoundly changed my life, helping my reach dreams I’d longed for.
If you had fun reading, please check out my Slice Series, another set of romcoms centered around a little pizzeria on the east coast. It’s not far from where the Texting Series takes place either. 12
If you’re looking for something a little heavier, the Here’s To Series (my very first set of books) has now been bundled together in a box set. Get the tissues ready!
And finally, if you’re looking for an angsty read that’ll still make you swoon, check out We Are the Stars or M/M novella, If You Say So.
Thank you for taking this wild ride with me.
Other titles by Teagan Hunter:
SLICE SERIES
A Pizza My Heart
I Knead You Tonight
Doughn’t Let Me Go
A Slice of Love
Cheesy on the Eyes
TEXTING SERIES
Let’s Get Textual
I Wanna Text You Up
Can’t Text This
Text Me Baby One More Time
HERE’S TO SERIES
Here’s to Tomorrow
Here’s to Yesterday
Here’s to Forever: A Novella
Here’s to Now
STANDALONES
We Are the Stars
If You Say So
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