Total pages in book: 90
Estimated words: 87260 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 436(@200wpm)___ 349(@250wpm)___ 291(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 87260 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 436(@200wpm)___ 349(@250wpm)___ 291(@300wpm)
The corners of her mouth twitched. “You don’t think it’s too soon for me to bring my…stuff…to your house?”
I sat down on the bed next to her. “If I’m being honest, I almost asked you to move in with me earlier before Josh interrupted us.”
“That’s what you were going to say! I was wondering.”
We both turned to face one another. “I know I’m moving at warp speed, Haven, with telling you I love you and now asking you to move some of your things in with me, it’s just…”
“It’s just what?” she asked.
“Now that I have you in my life, I want to spend every second I can with you. I don’t want to miss out on anything. I want to ask you how your day was as we cook dinner together. I want to kiss you goodnight and make love to you each morning.”
Haven took my hands in hers. “I love that you want all those things because I want them as well. And as much as I want to scream yes, I will move in with you, we honestly don’t know much about each other, Nate. Do you leave your towel on the floor or, worse yet…on the bed when it’s wet? Do you put the dishes in the dishwasher, or do you let them stack up in the sink until you have to load them in the dishwasher?”
I laughed. “I hang my towel up after I dry off. I cannot stand dishes in the sink, and one of my favorite things to do to de-stress is clean.”
Haven stared at me for a few seconds. “Okay, could you be any more perfect?”
I winked. “I could try.”
She giggled. “How about we do this. I’ll bring a few things over to make staying the night easier. Then we take it day by day and see how things go.”
“I’m not letting you go now that I have you. I hope you know that.”
“That’s good because I feel the same way. I’ve been in love with you for far too long to let you just push me away ever again.”
I stood and reached for her. “Trust me, Haven, I will never push you away again. Not ever.”
Haven wrapped her arms around my neck and lifted to kiss me. “Now that we have that settled, what should we do now?”
“How about we make some popcorn, change into something comfortable, and settle in for a movie?”
“That sounds wonderful to me. Do you have any movie candy like Stella did?”
I frowned as I thought about what I had in the pantry. “I have some Milk Duds and Mike and Ikes.”
“I love Milk Duds! That is perfect,” she said as she grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the bedroom and into the kitchen. “You pop the popcorn, and I’ll get the Milk Duds. Once the popcorn is done, we can put the Milk Duds in it.”
“Whoa…what?”
She turned and looked at me as she opened the pantry door. With her nose crinkled in the most adorable way, she asked, “You’ve never mixed candy in with your popcorn before?”
“No! That is gross, Haven.”
Her mouth fell open. “How is that gross?”
I shrugged as I stepped around her and walked into the pantry to get the popcorn. “Here are the Milk Duds.”
I took two bags of popcorn and headed back into the kitchen to put them in the microwave.
“I cannot believe you’ve never mixed anything in with your popcorn. The hot popcorn melts the chocolate some on the Milk Duds and it is so yummy.”
Leaning against the counter, I watched as Haven took a few boxes of the Milk Duds and poured them into a large bowl. “I’ll give it a try, but I’m not sure I’ll like it. I like my popcorn full of butter. Hence the Butter Lovers popcorn.”
She giggled. “Just trust me. Once you have this, you will never eat popcorn alone again.”
“I find that hard to believe.”
“Just wait. Which movie did you have in mind to watch?” she asked.
“Your pick tonight.”
Her eyes lit up. “Really?”
“Really, really.”
Tapping her finger on her mouth, she looked up as she thought about it. “How about we watch Love Actually?”
“Who is in it?”
Haven’s mouth fell open. “You’ve never watched Love Actually?”
I shrugged. “Can’t say I have.”
She jumped and clapped her hands. “Oh, this is going to be amazing!”
“I take it it’s a chick flick.”
With a quick shake of her head, she said, “You are in for a treat!”
I laughed. “What do you want to drink?”
“How about we open a bottle of wine?”
“You want to eat popcorn with Milk Duds in it and drink wine?”
She nodded, and those dimples appeared. I knew right then and there there was nothing I would deny Haven Larson. Nothing.
Chapter Seventeen
HAVEN
Two weeks had passed since Thanksgiving, and I had slowly started to bring more and more of my things to Nate’s house. Winter had officially set in also with a good snowstorm that had blown in—unfortunately, the day before we were set to break ground on the dog park. All part of living in Montana and building something in winter. Doug was amazing and assured me that all would be fine. He had stopped by my mother’s house last night since I was there having dinner with her to tell me what the plans for today were as far as what would be happening. The excitement of it all had fully hit me this morning when I woke up.