Page 120 of Sunkissed Colorado

“But she’d be so fucking pissed at me if she knew. They’re talking again, and it’s clear Grayden didn’t tell her.”

“Maybe he doesn’t blame you.”

“But doyou? I didn’t do whatyouthought I did, but you accused me of being cruel. I turned my back on my own brother when he came home asking to talk. What’s crueler than that?”

My hand stroked his stubbled jaw. “Nothing about you is cruel, baby boy. That’s just impossible. You don’t have it in you.”

Callum’s eyes were doing something complicated. I didn’t know if it was the dying light from the fire, or the stars overhead. But his eyes went from sad to thoughtful, then seemed to glow from within.

“Z, did you just call mebaby boy?”

Oh. Shit. I had. “I don’t know where that came from. It slipped out.” Didn’t matter how cold the night air was. My face was burning up.

Callum rolled us so he was on top, smirking down at me. “You did. I’m your baby boy, huh? I just turn you to mush inside from how much you’re into me.”

“No.”

“It’s that old boy-band fixation of yours.”

“Callum…”

“Oh, girl, you want me so bad,” he sang off-key, gyrating his hips. Which, considering we were naked, was getting us both excited.

I laughed, pushing at his chest. “This is not okay. We were having a serious conversation.”

He stopped to pepper my face with gentle, affectionate kisses. “We were. I’ve never toldanyonethe things I just told you. Just know I’d love to be your baby boy, because you’re my Sunflower, and if that’s wrong I have no interest in being right.”

I wasn’t sure my heart could survive this. Survivehim.

So I did the only thing I could think of to shift our focus to safer territory.

Sitting up as much as I could, I reached over to grab his baseball cap and put it backward on my own head. Then propped my elbows behind me to push out my breasts.

Callum’s lips formed an O shape. “My eyes are having an orgasm right now.”

“Show me again how I’m yours? I think I forgot.”

He took me from behind with us both on our knees, my arms braced against the ledge of the truck bed and holding on for dear life while I wore his hat. The whole truck was rocking. The night filled with the scandalous sounds of our bodies meeting, Callum’s grunts, my moans. Something in the distance hooted, and something else howled.

I wanted this night to last forever so we’d never have to deal with what was coming next. The job we were competing for, myparents and their judgments, Callum’s heartache over his brother. The person still out there, somewhere, who wanted to punish me for Jessa’s death.

For tonight, I wanted to pretend none of that would change what Callum and I had. Even though our pasts were still haunting us. And our future was inescapable.

THIRTY-ONE

Callum

We keptthat truck rocking until the wee hours. Then slept right there under the stars, curled up in the blankets and around each other. We didn’t sleep long though.

Soon the sun was up, shining in our eyes.

“Hey, Sunflower.”

“Morning,” Zandra murmured, voice rough from sleep. Her hair was wild. We both smelled like sex and each other.

Ilovedit.

Last night had been beyond anything I could’ve dreamed up. Best date accomplished. It had felt good to finally tell Zandra about everything with Grayden. I still didn’t know if it was the right thing to do to turn my brother away. But I regretted not letting Grace make her own decision. I already knew my sister was going to be angry when she found out. I felt like a coward for not admitting it already.