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The shirt is tugged off my head, and my jawline is palmed as she tilts my head up. “I distinctly remember being offered a long, hot bath.”

“Yes ma’am.”

I push to my feet and haul her onto my hips.

Her legs wrap around my waist, her mouth finding mine en route to the bathroom. The bigger room came with a bath, as well as the big bed we are taking and Ivy’s twin bed. I intend on making good use of both the bath and the king bed.

Inside the bathroom, I shut the door with my foot. Turning, I press Riley into the door. Her legs leave my hips, and her feet meet the floor.

“Hands up,” she breathes.

I plant my palms on the doorframe overhead.

Fine fingers pluck my buttons free until my shirt falls open.

She’s dusting kisses over my chest, and I can barely fucking take it. After an emotionally charged ride through the lost and found of our personal baggage, I’m ready to be balls deep in the only woman I’ve ever let in to this slightly used heart of mine.

“Nope, too slow, baby.”

I’m stripping her clothes from her skin a beat later.

As she stands in front of me bare, I step back to take her in.

Still a little nervous, she fondles her long hair and drags it to the side, and I know where she’s going with this move.

I step closer and catch her wrist before she loses the waterfall of ebony and covers herself up.

“No, Riles. Don’t hide. Not from me.”

It took me long enough, but I figured out that, despite her hard exterior, my girl has a soft-as-sin inside. And that means her confidence isn’t always where it should be.

I have made it my personal challenge to make sure she knows just how stunning she is. Every single damn part of her.

So, I do the thing any man would do to make sure what’s his stays that way.

I drop to one knee and lift my gaze to hers.

Chapter 30

Riley

Spencer is down on one knee, those big puppy eyes looking up at me.

My chest tightens.

I could?—

I’m choking on my last breath before I clear my throat with a half moan.

“No. No, no, no, no, Spence. Get up.”

Big blue eyes search my face before his hands slide over my thighs. “I would marry you in a heartbeat, Riles, so you know. But this isn’t that.”

He winks at me.

Heat scorches my neck and face.

Riley, you goddamneejit.