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Chapter Ten

Chase grabbed onto the back of a chair to steady himself. She’d left him. His chest went tight, and suddenly it was hard to breathe. Oh God. She’d left him.

What the hell could he do? Force her to marry him?

“Sorry.” She came back into the office and walked toward him, out of breath. “I had to tell Lisa that I won’t be available the rest of the evening and that under no circumstances should she come into this office in the next hour, no matter what she hears.”

With her arms wrapped around his neck, and she slammed her mouth onto his. Walking him backward, she pushed him down into a chair and then straddled his lap.

Relief raced through him, and he locked his arms around her, pushing her dress up around her waist.

“Damn, you’re aggressive.”

“No, I’m horny. I can’t even tell you how horny this pregnancy has made me.” She dropped a slower, less urgent kiss on his mouth. “That, and I’m in love with you.”

“You love me?” His pulse slowed then sped up to double time.

“That’s what I said.” She bit his lower lip. “Hint: now’s the part where you say you love me too.”

“I love you too.” His fingers slid between her legs, finding her, indeed, very horny. “It nearly killed me when I found your note.”

“Yeah,” she gasped when he slipped his fingers into her panties. “Sorry about that. It was complete bullshit.”

“I know that now.”

“Good, now make love to me. But you’d better put on a condom first or you’ll knock me up. Oh wait…”

His laugh turned into a groan. “I’m pretty sure the condom I used during shower sex was expired. I think I realized it when I grabbed it, but my little head was doing all the thinking.”

Awareness dawned in her eyes and she nodded. “Ah, well, I think it’s working out all right. Don’t you?”

“Better than all right. I love you, Nikki. And I love that you’re going to be my wife, and that you’re having my baby.”

“You haven’t actually asked me to marry you.”

“Oops. Marry me?”

Her expression softened and her eyes shone with love. “Hell yeah I will.”

“Good.” He pressed his lips to hers again, swiping his tongue deep. Then he pulled back and touched her cheek. “Oh, and Nikki?”

“Mmm hmm?” She kissed the side of his neck.

“We are
not
naming our son Dexter.”

About the Author

Shelli is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author who read her first romance novel when she snatched it off her mother’s bookshelf at the age of eleven. One taste and she was forever hooked. It wasn’t until many years later that she decided to pursue writing stories of her own. By then she acknowledged the voices in her head didn’t make her crazy, they made her a writer.

Shelli is a true pluviophile (lover of rain) and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest where she writes various genres of romance. She’s a compulsive volunteer, and has been known to spontaneously burst into song.

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Take Me in Tahoe

Copyright © 2016 by Shelli Stevens

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