A Cowboy to Kiss
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Sage splayed her hands across his chest. “As you might imagine...”
Oh, he could imagine, all right, he thought, body already hardening.
“...first, we get me pregnant,” she teased, her golden-brown eyes gleaming with excitement.
Nick savored the feel of her soft body pressed up against his. “Can’t say I mind working on that part...” he admitted huskily, kissing her temple. It would give him ample opportunity to make love with her again and again.
And every time he made love to her, he felt her stubborn resistance to real, enduring commitment slip, just a little bit.
Sage shrugged. “Then we have the baby and parent him or her together.”
“Under one roof?”
She stepped back, clamping her arms in front of her. “Well, I don’t think we have to go that far...”
What if I want to go that far?
She lifted her hand before he could interject. “I think it would be smart to maintain separate residences. You can live at your family ranch, I’ll keep my apartment in town. And we can care for the baby at both places. Be together as much or as little as we want.”
That sounded okay, since he knew better than anyone how one thing could easily lead to another, with Sage.
Soberly, he warned, “You know, if my quest for venture capital comes through, and I can expand into half a dozen new stores in different locations the way I’d like, I’ll be traveling some.”
Sage smiled, unperturbed. “That’s the beauty of my being here in Laramie. I have my whole family, you have yours. Between the Monroes and the Lockharts, we’ll have more backup with this baby than we know what to do with whether you’re in town or not.”
That was true.
Was it possible they could both have everything they wanted?
Especially since marriage per se didn’t mean all that much to him, either. What he really wanted was to be with Sage. Having a baby with her, well...that was the stuff of dreams, too.
“Sounds like you’ve got it all figured out,” he drawled.
“We can have it all, Nick. Friendship. Sex. Family. Plus, the freedom to live our lives exactly as we want and pursue our careers without constraint.” She toyed with the top button of his shirt. “So what do you say?”
The only thing he could if he wanted to make Sage his. He lowered his head and took possession of her lips. “Darlin’?” He kissed her again, more tenderly and persuasively now. “Consider me ‘all in’...”
Copyright © 2017 by Cathy Gillen Thacker
ISBN-13: 9781488010804
A Cowboy to Kiss
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