by Unknown
Katie couldn't help but laugh.
"I don't find this funny at all. I know I'm a little rusty but…" Kaiden placed a line of kisses down her throat, pausing at the little hollow at the base of her neck.
"I was laughing at your brother."
"Everyone does. Now can we stop talking about Keegan and focus on us?"
"Us?" She pushed Kaiden back a little bit. "Is there an us now?"
He looked at her, puzzled. "I thought I was being obvious."
"I don't know. Since this started, you've been kind of hot and cold."
"No. More. Cold. Just. Hot." He punctuated each word with a kiss to her face or neck, ending up in the little place by her ear that had always drove her wild. She was impressed he had found it so quickly.
"I can work with that."
"Can you work with it for, say, the rest of your life?"
A month ago, she would have run from that room screaming had someone said something like that to her. But there, in Kaiden's arms, she could suddenly see her whole future spread before her and Kaiden appeared in every single scene.
"You know what? I think I can."
"Good. We will have your stuff delivered to my place this weekend."
"Are you asking me to move in with you?"
"I thought I just did?"
"Despite my recent actions, I am not the sort of girl that gives the milk away for free you know. Expecting me to live with you? I mean, I want the fairy tale, you know?"
He looked at her, his blue eyes seeing straight through to her very soul. His hand rested on her cheek, his thumb caressing the scratch from her jaunt in the woods.
For the first time in her adult life, Katie finally knew what it felt like to really be in love. What she had experienced with Nathan had been a cruel trick in comparison. As she studied Kaiden, her heart felt full and her head light—and not from the accident. Kaiden looked at her like she was the only woman in the world. She wanted him to look at her that way forever.
"Whatever you want, Katie McCoy, it's yours. You have had my heart since the first day you walked into my hospital room. I'll marry you tomorrow if that's what you want."
Tears welled up in her eyes but she fought them back. She didn't want tears ruining the moment. The moment she had waited for her entire life.
"That's good, Kaiden. Very, very good."
"So… is that a yes?"
She pulled him close and pressed a kiss to his lips. "Yes. I want to be with you forever. But I want a real wedding; white dress, cake and all. And you, in a tux. You look pretty hot in a tux, even when you are interrogating me."
"Oh thank God!" Clara called through the door. "We will start planning the wedding as soon as you are up to it! Two down, one to go!"
"Let's not rush things, Ma!" Kaiden yelled back through the door.
"No, let's rush them," Katie said. "I don't want to spend another moment wondering what my life would be like with you in it. We can talk in the morning, Clara!"
"Wahoo! I knew it! Keegan! Your brother is getting married! When are you gonna find yourself a girl?"
"Please, Ma! One wedding at a time!" They heard Keegan call.
"I love you, Kaiden."
"I love you, too. You make me a very happy man, Katie."
"You make me a very happy woman. Now, if you don't mind, I'd like you to make me feel a few other things."
"Aren't you hurting from the accident?"
"Actually, everything suddenly feels absolutely perfect."
"I know exactly what you mean."
"I suppose there is only one thing left to do then," she finally said.
"What's that?" Kaiden shifted so that he wrapped her completely in the safety of his arms.
"Shut up and kiss me." She giggled as Kaiden pulled her close and pressed his lips to hers. "I've always wanted to say that."
"I've waited a lifetime to hear you say it."
Coming Soon from Carolyn LaRoche
Now that his brother and his cousin have found love, Keegan James's mother is determined to see him married off 'before the good Lord calls her home.' Keegan, who has been married to the job for far too long, thinks maybe his mother might be up to something but refuses to admit it to anyone. Especially when love may have just found him.
Meet Keegan James in Border Patrol available soon on Amazon.