I laughed. “Until you graduate, yes. Then we’ll figure out where we want to call home.”
“Harrison!” she screeched happily. “This is amazing! Show me around!”
It was impossible not to be happy around my girl, but when she was overflowing with joy, it was like being in paradise. I set her down and she righted her clothing before grabbing my hand. We took a tour of the small, one bedroom, one bath house, which only took about ten minutes.
“I love it,” she announced once we’d returned to the front room. “But not because it’s an adorable house, which it is. But, because it’s ours. Just you and me.”
Maggie sighed and laid her head on my shoulder. I had one hand on the steering wheel and the other on her thigh as I drove us home from Miami.
“This was the best weekend ever,” she said dreamily. I kept my eyes on the road, but managed to twist my head enough to kiss her forehead. After I’d shown her the house, I’d taken off for the city, having already packed us a bag and thrown it in my trunk. We went to a delicious little Cuban place near my apartment and I took her dancing. Afterwards, we spent the night making love at my place.
I hated to go back to her house because Stanley and Bunny would be back tomorrow and it would burst the little bubble we’d been living in. At the same time, I was eager to get things out in the open and start living the rest of my life with my Maggie.
“I’m glad you had such a great time, baby doll. We’ll have to make dinner and dancing—followed by a marathon fucking session—a regular occurrence.”
She giggled and kissed my chin. After a few minutes of silence, I noticed the mood in the car becoming thick and a little dark. “What’s wrong, baby doll?” I asked concernedly.
Another little sigh escaped, but this time it didn’t hold the same happiness as before. “I’m nervous about tomorrow,” she admitted morosely. “I don’t want Stanley or my mom to be upset, I want them to be happy for us.”
She finished as I glided to a stop on the curb in front of her house. I lifted her face to mine and sweetly kissed her lips. “Do you love me?” I asked. She nodded without hesitation. “And, you know I love you, right?” She smiled and nodded again. “Then there’s nothing else to worry about because we have each other. Yeah, maybe Stanley and Bunny will be pissed when they first find out about us being a couple. However, I believe they will come to our way of thinking once they realize how much we love each other.”
“I don’t know if I believe you one hundred percent, but you make me feel a heck of a lot better,” she teased.
I took her face in my hands and kissed the ever-loving fuck out of her, then mumbled against her lips. “Later, I’m going to make you feel so much more,” I promised gruffly.
“Later?” she asked with a small pout.
I laughed. “Damn you’re cute, baby doll. Yeah, we’ve got some things to do, then I promise we’ll go to bed early and I’ll give you all the feels.”
“Hmmm,” she hummed. “Those are some lofty goals, Harrison.” She winked and got out of the car. Fucking adorable.
We made arrangements to have some of my stuff shipped to our house and the rest put away. Then we took a load of Maggie’s things to our place since I was adamant that we’d be sleeping there starting tomorrow night. I had some work to do and got most of it finished while she finished her school work and then made dinner.
I ended up eating a good portion of it off of her naked body before scooping her up and stalking to my bedroom. Laying her down gently on the bed, my gaze swept over her. “Every night, I think I couldn’t possibly love you more, then the morning comes and I realize that I was wrong. You get more beautiful, more precious to me, more loveable every damn day, baby doll.”
A tear leaked from the corner of her eye and I started to panic. Why the fuck was she crying? Then she smiled, lighting up the room like she was the surface of the sun. She held her arms out to me.
“About those feels...”
Chapter 10
Maggie
Looking around my bedroom—or my old room I guessed I should call it since my new home was with Harrison—I was filled with an odd mixture of emotions. Mainly it was excitement about what the future would bring after graduation. There was also a huge dose of anxiety over how my mom and Stanley were going to react to the news of our relationship. Add to that some sentimentality over leaving the only home I’d ever known, and I was a jumbled mess of nerves.
“You look sad,” Harrison breathed into my ear, after coming up behind me and wrapping his arms around my body to pull me into his chest.