"Truth."
I stare into his pale green eyes. "Will you love me forever?"
"Forever and an extra day." He kisses me softly. "Truth or Dare, Ad?"
"Dare."
A ghost of a smile floats over his sinful mouth. "I dare you to take me up on my offer."
"The one to move in with you?"
He nods. "That one and all the others I'll make until the day I die."
"I'm going to pack up my things tonight." I trace the pad of my thumb over his left brow. "I want to wake up next to you every morning."
"At five a.m."
"Those days are over." I laugh. "Last one, Crew. Truth or Dare?"
"Dare," he answers without missing a beat. "Make it a good one."
"I dare you to make me come."
"You're joking." He rakes my body from head-to-toe. "Add something to that, like within a minute, or with my eyes closed, or with both hands tied behind my back or all of the above."
"With just your kiss," I finish.
"Dare accepted, Dr. York," he growls as he slides down my body. "You never said where the kisses could be."
I arch my back when I feel his breath on my thigh. "You won."
"You better fucking believe I won," he says as he pushes my panties aside to glide his tongue over my core. "I get to be loved by you. There's nothing better in this world than that."
Epilogue
Three Years Later
Crew
"Tell your mother what happened at school today." I cross my arms over my chest and stare at my daughter.
Her lips pinch together. She looks at me before her gaze stops on Ad's face. "I told a boy that I didn't like his shoes."
"Megan." I roll my eyes. "You know that's not what I meant."
"I did tell a boy that, dad." She rolls her eyes right back at me. "He has a pair of those shoes that you had to stand in line to buy. Who needs that?"
Adley grins as she looks up from her tablet. "No one needs that."
"Exactly. Mom gets it."
"Megan." I tap my foot on the floor of our new apartment. It's a three bedroom, two blocks from where Adley's parents live. We made the move when we decided to foster a child. Megan was eight then. Now, she's a ten-year-old with an attitude.
I blame May for that. They're in the same class at school. They hang out on the weekends and one afternoon a week Nolan's folks take Megan and May to piano lessons.
Meg loves helping out with baby Emmanuel. He's two-and-a-half now and one of the cutest kids I've ever met.
We’re on the path to adoption. It's a long one, but to have this child as our daughter is worth it. After her mother died when she was three, her grandmother took over the parenting duties. Her death left Megan in the system.