Escape With Me (With Me in Seattle 16)

“Of course.” I grin over at him.

“Shawn and Maeve handled remodeling the bedrooms and putting in a gym downstairs, Maggie was in charge of the hot tub out back. Come on. I’ll take you on a tour.”

“I can’t wait.” I don’t even wait for Keegan to come open my door. I jump out and hurry up the front steps to watch as Keegan keys in a code.

“Welcome to the O’Callaghan cabin,” he says as he sweeps the door open and gestures for me to step inside.

“This is seriously amazing.” I walk through the foyer to the living room and stare out the floor-to-ceiling windows with an incredible view of the mountains beyond. “Your family has access to the ocean and the mountains. That’s pretty cool.”

“I can’t argue with that.” He takes my hand and leads me into the open kitchen, all done in white with the biggest island I’ve ever seen—and I’ve been inside some incredible homes. This island would make Joanna Gaines weep with joy.

“You designed the kitchen?”

“I helped,” he says. “I wanted it to be big enough for our whole growing family to be in here together comfortably. We tend to gather in the kitchen.”

“A lot of families do.”

“It’s particularly fun when Ma is in here cooking up a storm, and we all sit at the island and pester her. She smiles the whole time. She doesn’t really mind.”

“Of course, she doesn’t. I really like your parents.”

He grins and then takes my hand, showing me the butler’s pantry, which just happens to be stocked full of my favorite snacks.

“How did this happen?” I gape up at him in shock.

“We have caretakers, and I put a call in.” He kisses the top of my head before showing me the hot tub outside, which I hope we put to good use later. He then shows me the beautiful bedrooms—both upstairs and down—a small gym, and a media room.

“There is literally everything you could possibly need up here.”

“That was the goal, to be able to escape for a few days with all the comforts of home.”

“When you said cabin, I thought it would be a bit more rustic.”

“That’s funny because Lexi had the same response when Shawn first brought her up here. She was convinced they’d be roughing it for a few days.”

“I wouldn’t mind that,” I admit.

“Really?”

“I loved summer camp when I was a kid. My favorite nights were the ones when we’d sleep in tents. I like to hike and fish and do all the outdoorsy things.”

His hands are on his hips as he stares at me in what looks like shock.

“You don’t strike me as the outdoorsy type.”

“Why? Because I also like makeup and pretty clothes? I can be a girly-girl and still enjoy a good hike. I just don’t get to do it often because my parents thought it was barbaric. They said if I wanted to spend some time outside, they’d send me to a spa where I could sit by the pool.”

“It seems to me they just don’t understand you at all, love.”

I look up at him in surprise. “I guess I never thought of it like that, but you’re right. They don’t understand me. And I don’t think they ever have, honestly.”

“Well, we’re going to have plenty of time to hike, and if you’d like to fish, we can go over to Shawn’s property nearby and fish on his lake. What do you want to do first?”

I tap my chin and look around the big house, and then I grin up at this sexy, sweet man.

“You. I want to do you first.”

Keegan’s green eyes darken, and the next thing I know, he slings me over his shoulder and smacks my ass as he stomps up the stairs to the bedroom we chose as ours for the next few days.

“This is quite caveman of you, you know.”

“They would have dragged you by your hair, I’m carrying you.”

I giggle and pat his ass in delight before he tosses me onto the soft, luxurious bed.

“Shawn and Maeve did a good job in these bedrooms. The bed is to die for.”

“You haven’t seen anything yet, lass.”

* * *

Keegan’s still sleeping when I slip out of bed and walk into the en suite bathroom. We never left the house to enjoy the great outdoors last night. We spent the whole time in bed, making love and talking. Laughing. Then we raided the kitchen for sustenance before starting all over again.

It’s the most fun I’ve ever had with a man in my whole life.

Is it sad that I’m on the downslope to thirty and didn’t know that being with a man could be so fun? So good for me?

I turn on the spray in the walk-in shower that’s big enough for a party of four, and as it heats up, I comb out my hair and gather my shampoo, conditioner, and body wash, finally stepping inside the delectable spray.