Page 71 of Restoring You

“What can I say? That girl wears me out.” I pull her onto my lap and kiss her. “Curl up here with me.”

She wraps her arms around my waist and nuzzles her face in my neck. Her breath lightly brushes across my skin, and suddenly I don’t feel so tired. She runs a trail of kisses across my neck and then nibbles on my ear.

“Keep that up and there will be no nap.” I joke.

She chuckles before she sucks my earlobe into her mouth and whispers, “Stay with me.”

I pull my head back and look down at her in confusion. “I am with you.”

She rotates on my lap until she’s straddling me. She cups my cheeks and kisses me lightly. “No I mean, stay here, in this house with me. It feels like it's as much yours as it is mine. And I don’t want to be apart from you.”

My arms stiffen around her, and my eyes widen. She stares at me with so much sincerity that my breathing slows. “Are you asking me to move in?”

“Yes. Is it too soon? Oh, God.” Panic fills her eyes, and she turns rigid in my arms. “It’s too soon isn’t it. It’s been five months, so I thought—”

I cover her mouth with mine, stopping her from finishing that thought. It's a fast kiss, but it's still intense and deep. “It’s not too soon, Cami. I’ll stay.”

Her smile grows as she runs her hands up my chest. “You mean it?”

“There’s nothing I want more in this world than to be here with you.”

“Good.” She smooths her hand down my beard and around my neck. With her gaze on mine, she says, “I like being Aunt Cami, and I don’t want there to ever be any doubt about who Iam to you.” She kisses me slow and deep. “I’m yours, and you’re mine.”

“Always, love. Always.”