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Right where I belonged.

“Jacqueline,” I grumbled against her neck, “I’m perfectly confident in my masculinity, love.”

“That’s great,” Jacqueline was struggling to calm her breathing, wrapping her arms around my shoulders as she leaned back, offering more of her neck to me, “But the sexy, mysterious, motorcycle rider schtick is on hiatus for a moment.”

I chuckled against her skin, before scraping my teeth against her throat. Her responding shiver let me know she wasn’t completely turned off by me.

“Any other fantasies you’d like me to deliver on?” I murmured, brushing my lips up to her neck and teasing her earlobe, “Want to play today, Jacqueline?”

She whined, and I rewarded myself by taking a deep breath of her vanilla and rose scent. I hadn’t ever been super aroused by perfumes and smells before, but Jacqueline was the exception to the rule.

She was always the exception to the rule.

“We—we can’t,” Jacqueline whimpered against my touch.

“Do you remember your safe word, Jacqueline?” I lowered my voice, letting the gravel take over in a way I knew would have her panties soaked within minutes. God, I couldn’t wait to sink inside of her again.

“No, Leo, we actually can’t—”

“Leo!”

I froze, my teeth tucked around the shell of Jacqueline’s ear as I struggled to make sense of what I was hearing.

OfwhoI was hearing.

Jacqueline gripped the roots of my hair to pull my head off of her, a nervous smile on her face as she met my eyes.

“Surprise…” Jacqueline immediately looked bashful, and I realized the blush coating her cheeks—unfortunately—wasn’t just from arousal.

“Mummy?” I glanced over my shoulder, helping Jacqueline hop off of my bike.

Both of my mothers were exiting a taxi just outside the car park, and Mummy raced toward us with wide open arms. I barely had time to open mine to catch her hug before she practically slammed me against Jacqueline and the bike.

“I know we’re interrupting,” Mummy squeezed me hard before pulling me away from her so she could look up at me, her dark eyes scanning my features, “But I don’t care. I’ve waited too long to hug my son.”

I laughed, before bending down and wrapping her up in a hug again, lifting her feet off the ground. Mama had just finished tugging their suitcase out of the taxi and waving it off before she jogged over to join the reunion.

I missed my mums.

I didn’t realize how much until this very moment, but I did.

That wasn’t to say I regretted leaving London, I was still happy with the choice I made. I was in a rut over there, and something in my soul craved a move like this. Plus, moving closer to Mary and meeting the love of my life didn’t suck, either.

The three of us pulled away from each other before my mums practically shoved me out of their way to get to my partner.

“I’m so glad to finally meet!” Mama cried before wrapping her arms around Jacqueline’s shoulders. Instead of the group hugging her, they each took their turn.

“Thank you so much for coming,” Jacqueline grinned at my mothers, but it was shy. This was a big deal for her, embracing strangers so openly.

“Thankyoufor the invite,” Mummy replied after scanning Jacqueline up and down, “You’re even lovelier in person.”

“You invited them?” I grinned at Jacqueline, who looked up at me with a small smile.

“I wanted to surprise you,” Jacqueline bit her bottom lip, her cheeks still flushed from our intimate embrace, “Is that okay?”

“I love surprises,” I grinned, wrapping her hand in mine to bring her knuckles to my lips, “Thank you.”

“Let’s get on, then,” Mama retrieved the handle to their suitcase and started shooing us toward my building’s lift, “We want to hear everything. How’s Mary? Are she and Jamie coming over, too?”