Busted (Barnes Brothers #3) (36 page)

“Details.” She remembered what her aunt had told her. Okay, yeah, she and Trey had some crazy . . .
details
, but he’d just proven to her, beyond a shadow of a doubt that he had faith. Not just in her, but in them.

“What?”

Tipping her head back, she pressed a kiss to the corner of his mouth. “Mama Ang told me that if we had love, everything else was just details. She was right. When I’m with you, I forget about all the crazy things, the complicated things. I forget about Kiara and every reason why this is a bad idea.”

She laughed wryly. “
This
 . . . today . . . that’s exactly why I’ve been so afraid to try anything with you because this would happen. People would find out. And . . .”

“And the world didn’t end.” He wrapped his arms around her. “We’re still here. The world can’t mess us up unless we let it. I think we’ve already proven we’ve got what matters.”

“Yeah.” That solid, warm weight of her had his entire body sighing in satisfaction. As he brushed his lips against her brow, she said, “They’re all just details.”

Twisting her head, she caught his mouth. “We just might be crazy, going after this.”

“We’d be crazier not to. Life doesn’t always give you a second chance to be happy, Ressa.” He angled the chair back and she yelped as she ended up sprawled against his chest. He took her mouth in a slow, leisurely kiss. It was the first time all over again, slow and gentle, tasting her, learning every hollow, every crevice of her mouth.

When it ended, Trey pressed to her and murmured, “Crazy or not, I haven’t felt whole like this in . . . too long. It may be crazy, but it’s right. You feel it, too.”

“I feel it, too.”

He lifted his head, studied her eyes. “Then the rest is just details. We’ll handle them.”

“Yeah.” Ressa smiled then, leaning in to rub her lips against his. “I never really thought about it, but I’m pretty good at handling
details.”

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