His eyes lit up, and he smiled, watching me for a moment before diving into the details. The excitement on his face filled me with a hope that I could help him build it. If things worked out between us, I could help my Dad with his clothing line, and give Finn the seed money that I'd earned. My clothing line could come later.

I'd been looking for someone to support my dreams, but now they didn't seem so important anymore. Maybe that was where I gathered my warmth. From the promise of the future. With Finn wrapped around me, I didn't need promises anymore. I had him.

Chapter 22

Finn

I woke before Chloe did the next morning. She was on her back with her hair slung across her face and the top half of her uncovered. The need to reach out and touch her rode me hard, but I kept my hands tucked under my face as I laid on my side, watching her. I hated when people did that shit to me, but I could see where they were coming from now. I couldn't help myself. So many things about her left me intrigued, and I'd only scratched the surface.

We made love again before going to sleep wrapped around each other, the second time far slower. I'd never made love to a woman like that, but after doing it, I could see why. It was like I lost a piece of myself with every thrust, every moan, every whimper she let out. She was impossibly beautiful, a treasure that I wanted to hide away from the world.

Realization dawned on me and hard emotion slammed into my chest. I rolled over and carefully got out of the bed as tears burned my eyes. My father loved my mother with a passion that made no sense to me. He'd been single for ten years out of the longing that he had for only her.

I couldn't imagine loving Chloe for the next ten years and then having to say goodbye.

Walking to the shower, I pressed my fingers to my eyes and growled. "Stop it. Idiot."

The water was hot, and felt good against my skin as I let my worries bleed out. I tucked the situation with my mom and Dad somewhere back into a corner of my heart, and figured I'd get Chloe to help me with how to talk the old fart into giving Milly a try. She was the next best thing to my mom, but convincing my Dad of that would be hard. We'd have to get manipulative, but Chloe was a woman...she could figure it out for me.

I smiled and turned the shower off, knowing she would give me lip for calling her manipulative by nature.

"Finn?" Her voice called out from the bedroom.

"I'm in here, baby. Just needed to get moving." I wrapped a towel around my waist, and walked back into the bedroom to see her curled up on her side, clutching the covers around her chest.

"You have to work today?" She sat up and ran her fingers through her hair as she kept the blanket up against her.

I leaned over and pinched the bottom of it, pulling hard as she yelped. "I wanna see you."

"Then get back in this bed. It's fucking cold." She pulled the covers up, and rolled around in the bed until she was properly wrapped up.

I crawled over her, and straddled her side with my full body as I kissed at the side of her face.

"My Dad's already grumpy about me calling in sick the other day. The cute girl I was going to spend the day with told of me." I huffed. "Around the shop we like to say that snitches get stitches."

She turned and lifted her eyebrow at me. "Oh yeah? Is that what you guys say?"

She jerked back and I fell onto the bed, only to have her crawl on top of me and run her fingers along my sides, tickling me.

I trapped her hands and rolled us back over, snuggling in between her thighs and cursing my towel and her blanket. "I'm gonna get you for that."

She pressed her chin to the ceiling and let out a sexy moan before rubbing herself against my stomach.

"Please get me. Get me like you got me last night."

I nipped at her breasts as they were jutted out, and ran my hands up her arms as my cock hardened.

"You're going to get me fired or disowned." I brushed my face down her stomach, and pressed my teeth against the swell of her sex.

Her fingers slid into my hair, and she pulled me up using a handful of it. "Get out of here before I decided to play your games and submit to your research."

I got up and tugged my towel off, more than happy to prance around naked and fully erect in front of her. "What research?"

She turned on her side, and reached for me as I pulled away and found a pair of clean jeans.

"How to make women have longer orgasms? We should work on that."

"If I recall, you had a six hour one last night." I chuckled as she threw a pillow at me.

"You were incredibly amazing." She turned on her back and pulled a pillow onto her face, screaming like a silly girl into it. She looked out from the side with a huge smile on her beautiful face. "Amazing. The best lover in the world."

I leaned over and pressed my chest to the bed before reaching out and touching her face. "Only for you."

"I'm going to hold you to that." She turned, and kissed my hand.

"If I get to take you to bed at night, and wake up with you in the morning, you can hold me to anything you want to." I moved more onto the bed and kissed her. "I gotta go. Want me to cook you something before I do?"

"No. Give me a minute and I'll get dressed. I don't have a key." She started to get up, but I gently pressed her back down.

"There's an extra one hanging on the rack by the door. Take it with you, and be careful going home. Another thick snow storm blew in last night."

"That's great for business, but shitty for people like me who can't drive in the snow." She let out a content sigh. "I don't want you to go."

"Is my independent woman getting needy?" I chuckled at the warning look I'd gotten.

"Never. Be safe and call me..." she paused, and I smiled, "... you know, whenever."

She rolled away from me playfully, and I popped the curve of her butt in the sheets. "I'll call you when I get off. Bad girl."

"Your bad girl." She glanced over her shoulder, and gave me a hot look that had me considering telling the world to go to hell.

"I gotta go before I decide not to." I grabbed my t-shirt, walked to the front door and worked quickly to get my jacket, boots, hat and gloves on.

"See you later, Finn." Her voice was sultry, and I knew better than to turn around, but dammit if I couldn't help myself.

The sexy little minx was completely naked, leaning against the door-frame to my bedroom. She twirled her fingers around a section of her hair and bit at her lip in a way that had my body reacting violently.

I turned and charged her, loving the squeal she gave as she ran for the bed. She'd have died if she knew how much I enjoyed watching her perfect ass jiggle as she hauled it back to the bed.

I stopped at the door to the bedroom and smiled. "You're lucky I have shit to do, or you'd get a spanking for teasing me."

Somehow I knew before she did it, that my own words were going to come back to bite me.

She rolled over and presented me with the prettiest ass I'd ever seen. "Come spank it?"

"Damn woman." I turned and walked to the door as I ran my hand down my face. "Behave."

I walked out into the snowy weather and stopped, breathing in deeply and letting the cold seal my good mood in tightly. There was nothing that could ruin the incredible feeling that filled me up. Chloe was mine, and after spending the night in her arms, I knew without a doubt that I would be hers for however long she would have me.