Page 95 of Irresistibly Us
Tyler is mine.
My heart practically leaps with the joy of it.
“Oh my fucking god! Juliette, get out here! It’s happening!”
Tyler and I whip apart at the sound of Asher’s gleeful voice, the thunder of feet as he bounds down the deck stairs like an excitable puppy, and he sounds so much like the man I love more than life that I laugh against Tyler’s lips.
Tyler just kisses me one more time, and I feel his lips curve into a smile. “I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later.”
I laugh, pressing my forehead to his. “Sooner works for me.”
He pulls back, looking at me with a grin. “Yeah?”
I shrug, my grin matching his. “I mean, I’ve been waiting three years for you to get your shit together. I think it’s safe to say I don’t have much interest in slow.”
“Who’s taking what slow?” Asher demands. “We’ve been waiting for the two of you to get together for twenty years now. Don’t you think that’s slow enough?”
Tyler and I both look up to see Asher standing over us, hands on his hips and a beaming grin on his face. I start to shift off Tyler’s lap into a less…compromising position, but he locks an arm around my waist to hold me exactly where I am. “No way, Sal,” he murmurs, pressing a kiss to the space below my ear, chuckling when I bite back a gasp. “You stay right here. I want you close to me.”
“Shit,” I mutter. “I think swoony Tyler is going to kill me.”
I love it.
“Count on it, baby.”
Baby. Fuck. I’m definitely dead.
“Yeah, Molly, they’re here.” Tyler and I both turn as Julietrots down the deck stairs, phone pressed to her ear. “I think Ash caught them kissing in the backyard.”
“You bet I did!” Asher calls.
Tyler snickers, spinning me around so I’m settled between his legs, my back to his chest, his arms tight around me, and I am so in love with this night I could die.
“Gotta go, Mol. I’ll call you later with an update.” Julie hangs up the phone and stands next to Asher, linking an arm though his. “Took you long enough,” she says, smirk aimed directly at Tyler. “And you,” she says to me, smirk turning into a full-blown smile. “Looks like you finally got your man.”
“You bet I did,” I say with a grin, leaning my head back on Tyler’s shoulder and turning my head to wink at him. “He may have been a little slow on the uptake, but I’ve got him now.”
“You sure do,” Tyler murmurs, his breath warm against my ear.
Asher kneels, taking one of my hands in his. “I love you like you’re my own, Soph. I’m so happy for both of you. And I was kidding about waiting for you to get together for twenty years. Not that we haven’t been waiting because we totally have. It was always going to be the two of you. But everything happens in its right time, and it looks to me like this is exactly the right time for both of you.”
A possible move across the country makes this potentially the worst time, but with Tyler’s arms around me and his lips grazing my hair, I decide not to care about that right now. Because Tyler was right before. We can figure anything out, as long as we get to do it together.
And we do.
Because we’re together.
I wonder if that will ever stop being a thrill, and I really hope it doesn’t. I hope I keep getting thrilled by Tyler Hansley for the rest of my days.
“I get to have Sophie,” Tyler says to his dad. “Which means it is absolutely the right time.” He turns my head back to him withtwo fingers on my jaw. “I have you,” he says in a low voice. “I’m the luckiest fucking guy on earth.”
“Oh my god, there’s two of you now,” Julie says, looking at Asher with amusement.
Asher chuckles, wrapping an arm around Julie’s shoulders. “Juliette, he learned from the very best.”
“Got that right,” she murmurs, leaning in and kissing him before turning back to us. “So, do you both want to stay out here doing the nostalgia thing for longer, or do you want to come in and have a late-night snack and tell us everything?”
Tyler and I turn to look at each other, having an entire wordless conversation. “I think we’ll stay out here for a little longer,” he says, not taking his eyes off me. “We still have more nostalgia to do tonight.”
