Cavanaugh Judgment (21 page)

“I love you,” she admitted. But as he moved to kiss her, she put her hand on his chest, holding him in place. “I’d still rather you took time to let the situation cool off.”

“I can if you want me to,” he agreed. “But the feeling will still be the same.” He took her free hand in both of his. “None of us know how much time we have. Today is all there might be. I don’t want to waste a single minute away from you. I don’t want to put my life on hold anymore. I don’t want to get myself lost in my work.” The way he had when Margaret died. “The only ‘getting lost’ I want to do is with you. Now, we can wait if you want to—because I sure as hell don’t—or you can give me your answer now and we can go home and start planning the rest of our life together. The choice is yours.”

She wasn’t that sure about that. “And if I say wait?”

He sighed. “Then I’ll wait. Not patiently,” he promised, kissing first her lips, then her forehead, then the hollow of her throat. “But I’ll wait.”

He knew it made her crazy when he littered her skin with small, tantalizing kisses like that, she thought. Despite everything she’d been through tonight, her pulse was racing again. The man had some kind of magic power over her, there was no other way to describe it.

“You don’t play fair,” she groaned, feeling herself begin to melt.

He laughed, kissing the side of her neck. “Playing fair wasn’t part of the initial deal.”

She was breathing hard and definitely not thinking clearly. But she was rejoicing. Every single inch of her was rejoicing.

“Yes,” she breathed.

“How’s that again?”

“Yes,” she repeated with effort, “I’ll marry you.”

He laughed as triumph soared through him. “That’s all I wanted to hear.” He got off the bed, still holding her hand. “Let’s go home.”

“In a second.” Standing up next to him, Greer wrapped her good arm around his neck, leaned against him and sealed the bargain with a heated kiss that promised to go on for a very long time.

Which was just fine with both of them.

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CAVANAUGH JUDGMENT

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