The Wish List (22 page)
Authors: Myrna Mackenzie
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Romance, #Contemporary, #Contemporary Fiction, #Contemporary Romance
“Yes,” he agreed as he shrugged out of his clothing and reached for her again, sliding his hands down her body.
“Your hands are wonderful,” she said. She touched her lips to the underside of his jaw, to the pulse point at his throat, then lower still.
He groaned. “Not nearly as wonderful as your mouth.”
She laughed. “I beg to disagree. Is it a contest?”
“Not at all. Not this. It’s love.” He showered kisses down her body, licking, nipping, caressing with his hands until she was twisting with need beneath him.
“Nathan?” She touched him, free to let her hands and mouth roam where they would. “Nathan, I don’t want to wait any longer.”
With her words, he slid into her depths, as heat and need enveloped them. They moved together until the pressure built, the rhythm escalated, and the stars and bliss claimed them, skyrocketing them to the heavens and back.
Minutes later, when their breathing finally returned to normal, Nathan lay on his side, gazing into Faith’s eyes. He gently kissed her. “Thank you.”
“For making love with you?”
“Most definitely. And for saving my life, for loving me, for Cory, for everything you are.”
Faith gazed into Nathan’s eyes. “I couldn’t stop myself from loving you if I tried, but…I have a confession to make.”
Nathan rose up on one elbow and stared down at her, one devilish eyebrow raised, a smile on his gorgeous face. “Sounds serious. I can’t imagine anything you could tell me that could upset me right now.”
“I’ll have to remember to always tell you serious things after we make love.”
Nathan chuckled. “That sounds like a plan I could get used to. What’s your confession?”
She glanced to the side. “That project of Cory’s…I heard him and Scotty talking. I think that he’s decided that his list worked so well with you that it might help him get other things he wants, too.”
“Such as…”
“Well, I’m not totally sure, but I heard Scotty telling him that mothers and fathers had to sleep in the same bed if they wanted a baby.”
“Whoa, Scotty is one advanced four-year-old.”
“I doubt he knows anything about the mechanics. Being in the same bed is probably enough.”
Nathan pulled her closer into his arms. “That’s not so far off with you. Once you’re in the same bed with me…or anywhere within a one-hundred mile radius, I want to make love with you. Many times. A baby might be inevitable.”
“You wouldn’t mind having another child?”
She rested her hands on his chest, her lips only inches from his. “If we make another child, I’ll welcome and love him or her,” he whispered. “And I won’t love Cory any less, just in case that’s your next question.”
“It wasn’t. I know you love Cory. I just—”
“What?”
“I think he’s starting another list. I heard him telling Scotty that a brother with super powers would be nice.”
She felt the laughter rising in Nathan’s body before he tipped his head back and laughed out loud. “That son of ours is something very special, isn’t he?”
Faith couldn’t help smiling. “He is, but maybe we could guide him a little bit, towards something more realistic.”
“Faith, love, haven’t you learned by now that Cory is going to keep adjusting his list until he and our new baby are both on the same page? He’s a little boy with a big heart. He taught me something wonderful about love. And in a way, he brought us closer together. I trust him implicitly. If he says this baby is going to have super powers, then…well, why not? You and Cory have super powers.”
She gave him a look that said,
You’ve got to be kidding
.
“You brought me back into the world, Faith. What is that if not a super power?”
Shaking her head, she sighed, cupped his face in her hands and kissed him, lingering and then kissing him again. “You win,” she said, her voice low. “You taught me to trust again. Surely that’s a super power.”
“You know what else is a super power?” He was feathering gentle kisses over her shoulder and up the sensitive column of her neck.
“Us. Doing this.” It wasn’t a question.
“No question about it, love. Come closer and teach me how to use my hands again.”
“You’re doing just fine,” she said as the heat began to build again. “You’re magic.”
“
We’re
magic. Now about that baby list…”
“I’m hoping for a baby with your eyes,” she said, only half teasing. But then she was loving Nathan and he was loving her, and no one was talking about lists or anything else for a long, long time.
Table of Contents
Other Books (a Partial List)
Just Pretending (Montana Mavericks series)
Her Sweet Talkin’ Man (Lone Star Country Club series)
Blind Attraction (Family Secrets series)
Keeping Her Safe (Fortunes of Texas series)
The Maid and the Millionaire
Marrying Her Billionaire Boss
The Heir’s Convenient Wife (The Wedding Planners series)
Her Millionaire, His Miracle
The Cowboy and the Princess
Hired: Cinderella Chef
The Frenchman’s Plain-Jane Project
Rodeo Bride
Saving Cinderella (Girls Weekend in Vegas series)
Cowgirl Makes Three
Riches to Rags Bride
To Wed a Rancher
Inherited: Expectant Cinderella
The Rancher’s Unexpected Family (The Larkville Legacy series)
The Soldier, the Puppy and Me (novella in A Puppy for Christmas anthology)
About the Author
Born in Dunklin County, Missouri and raised in the Chicago area, Myrna Mackenzie has always been a little bit country, a little bit urban. She’s also been blessed to have been able to make her living daydreaming stories to share with others. Her books have won awards and have been translated into many languages, but exciting as all of that is, the true joy is in creating the stories.
By nature, she tends to be all over the place, trying this and that: gardening rather unsuccessfully. knitting…sort of. hiking to mountain tops (with only a little complaining), white water rafting (lots of screaming), camping and more. But when asked to name her favorite way to spend an afternoon, most days she’ll take a cup of coffee or two or three and settle down somewhere sunny to read.
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