Page 99 of Next Time We'll Fall

“I got a job in Billionaires Valley, so Rosie and I are going to move there next week.”

“But you just got to town,” Juniper says sadly. “I’ve barely spent time with you.”

“I know, and it sucks, but this is the opportunity of a lifetime for me and Rosie. You don’t mind, right?”

“Of course not. I hope it’s going to be amazing,” Juniper says.

I look at her curiously. “What’s Billionaires Valley?”

“I’ll tell you later,” she says with a smile.

I hand her the drink that Preston made for her, and we sip.

“I want to make love to you,” I say under my breath.

“Well, not right here,” she says, giggling.

“I don’t suppose you want to go into the ocean again.”

“You don’t suppose right,” she says. “I want to make love in your bed with sheets and pillows and no sand in my butt. I don’t want to smell of salt afterward.”

I laugh as I touch her face. “I don’t mind what you smell like.”

“Well, I don’t want to be scratchy and itchy, and I want us to wake up tomorrow together, and I want …”

“What? You want to see my face in the morning?”

“Maybe,” she says, blushing.

“Good, because I want to see your face in the morning, and I want to make you pancakes and bacon and fresh coffee and learn how you like your eggs and do all the things that new couples do.”

“Are we really going to go to Paris for our third date?”

I grin at her. “Five days, and I booked a really nice hotel, and I got us tickets to see Versailles, and I also booked us dinner near the Eiffel Tower.”

“You did all that already, but …”

“But what?”

“When? How?”

“As soon as I realized that you were the one and I wanted to make each date more and more special.”

“But if our third date is in Paris, what will the fourth date be?”

“I don’t know. Maybe you can plan that one.”

“You want me to plan a date?” She giggles.

“I mean, you don’t have to. I’m more than happy to plan as many dates as you want.”

“I have an idea for when,” she says, grinning. “But I’m not going to tell you yet.”

“Ooh, a surprise, huh?”

“You said you like surprises?”

“I do when they involve you.”