The Screw Ball (Indianapolis Lightning Book 3) by Samantha Lind (the lemonade war series .TXT) 📕

my large T-shirts she loves sleeping in. I can’t say that I hate seeing her in them, and it has my mind rolling forward a few years and what our life together could be like with a few kids running around. I can picture it now, a little girl with her mother’s eyes, my nose, and a smile that will have me wrapped around her little baby finger the moment she’s born.

“What are you thinking about?” Carmen’s voice pulls me from my daydream. I shake my head and blink twice as I look at her, my T-shirt hitting just above her knees.

“You, us,” I say, my voice a little gritty.

“And?” she asks, rolling her hand in a motion, asking me to continue.

“When I saw you pull out my T-shirt, it made me think of how much I love seeing you in my clothes,” I tell her, tugging her closer to me. I sit down on the edge of the bed, positioning her between my legs. “That thought flashed forward a few years to you in my T-shirt, stretched over a belly, to a little girl with both of our features.”

“That’s quite the active imagination,” she says, running her hand through my hair before her hand comes down to cup my cheek. I turn my face, kissing her palm.

“It might be a dream, but it is one that I want with you,” I tell her honestly.

“Me too,” she says quietly. If the room hadn’t been quiet, I would have missed her confession.

I look up and see tears falling down her cheeks. I quickly wipe them away. “Don’t cry, baby,” I tell her, pulling her into my lap. “I know that all of those things are down the road. We don’t have to rush anything. Hell, it’s only been a few months, but knowing that we’re both working towards the same end goal is a good thing, right?”

“Yeah, you just keep amazing me, Lucas. I’m so glad you picked me,” she says, cupping my cheek. I pull her back on the bed with me and we lazily make out, no need to rush things along.

“You’re the amazing one,” I tell her. “I had an idea earlier tonight.”

“Oh yeah, what’s that?” she asks, shifting so we can more easily see one another as we talk in bed.

“What would you say to us moving in together? We’re already at one another’s places most nights of the week, and to be honest, I hate it when we end up not together at night.”

“Yes!” she exclaims. “I don’t care how we make it happen, but my answer is yes.” She smiles and I pull her in for another kiss.

“I don’t care about the specifics, either. We can keep your place, keep mine, pick a new place altogether. Just as long as I get to come home to you every night, I’ll be a happy man.”

“We can decide that in the next few days. There are things I like about both of our places, but there is also something exciting about starting a new chapter of our lives in a new place.”

“You just tell me where and I’ll be there,” I tell her, kissing her once more. I snake my hands up under my T-shirt that covers her body, finding her tits bare, but her nipples already hard as I roll them between my fingers.

“Someone not so tired, all of a sudden?” I ask, sitting up to pull my shirt off over my head.

It doesn’t take long before we’re both naked and I’m sinking inside her heat. I make love to this woman, the last woman I ever plan to be with, the one that has completely snagged me and turned my life around, making me long for the domesticated life.

Twenty

Carmen

“I can’t believe today has finally arrived!” I jump up and down, the excitement getting to me as I wait for Zach, Heather, and Simon to get here. Their flight is due to touch down any second now. Zach was finally given dates for his leave, and while we completely missed getting to be together over the holidays, I’ll take any time I can get with my family.

“Calm down, babe.” Lucas chuckles next to me, where he’s sitting on the bench outside of security at the airport. I made him bring me here thirty minutes early. No way was I going to risk traffic or an accident making me late to see my brother, sister-in-law and nephew. He gets to see his sister any time he wants, I only get the few weeks a year the military says my brother can be away.

“Calm, I can’t be calm,” I tell him, bouncing on the balls of my feet.

“You crack me up,” he says.

I watch the screen that shows all the incoming and outgoing flights. As the screen updates, their flight flips from landing to on the ground and I about lose it again. I know that it will still be at least ten minutes, if not more, before they are actually off the plane and out of security, I just can’t contain my excitement.

“Babe, look at this place,” Lucas says, handing me his phone. We’ve still been deciding what we’re going to do, but have been leaning towards buying a place.

“Oh, I love it,” I tell him as I flip through the pictures.

“It’s in the same neighborhood where JJ and Derek live,” he says. “JJ sent me the listing, as it just went up today.”

“Do you want to go look at it? I think listings in that neighborhood go pretty fast,” I tell him.

“Yeah, I can shoot a message to our realtor,” he says, as I watch the people as they are streaming out of security, hoping that three of them will be the people I want them to be.

“Done. She’s going to reach out to the listing agent and get a time set up.”

“Perfect. Can you send me the listing?” I ask.

“Already did.” He smiles up at me.

“Excuse me, ma’am.” I hear a voice behind