“Tanner,” I whispered as he softly placed kisses down my neck. With a deep breath, I dropped down and started to unbutton his dress pants.
“Timberlynn, what are you doing?”
I unzipped them and pulled his boxers down until his semi-hard cock sprang free.
“Timber, I—”
His voice was cut off when I took him into my mouth.
“Christ,” he cried out and grabbed onto the coat rack that stood next to him.
I worked him with my mouth and hand, and when he touched the side of my face, I couldn’t help but smile. I could hear the way he was panting. I looked up and saw his eyes closed and a look of utter pleasure on his face.
He opened his eyes and looked directly at me. “Baby, stop, or I’m going to come.”
I took him deeper and moaned. Tanner jerked a few times, and I felt the warmth of his cum hit the back of my throat. I swallowed it as fast as I could while still working him. This was my first time doing this, and I definitely wasn’t a fan of swallowing, but I wanted to show him that losing control earlier was exactly what I had wanted.
When he stopped, I slowly took him out of my mouth.
“Holy shit.” He gasped. “I need to sit down.”
I smiled and wiped the corners of my mouth as Tanner stumbled over to the sofa and fell into it.
“I can’t breathe. That felt so damn amazing. Why did you do that?”
“Because I want you to know that in this relationship, we’re both in control, Tanner. I don’t want you to feel like you have to worry about treating me like I’m going to break.”
He frowned.
“You thought by taking me upstairs you did something wrong. I know if I had said no, you would have stopped. I wanted you just as much, and knowing that you had that reaction turned me on.”
He smiled. “It did?”
“Yes, very much so.”
He took my hand in his. “I’m just glad I had the wits about me to wear the condom this time.”
I looked down at my hands and then at him.
“What’s wrong? Why do you look like you want to say something?”
“I almost told you not to put one on.”
A soft chuckle came from his lips. “I almost asked not to.”
We both laughed. “I will be getting on birth control ASAP.”
“Good!” he said. Then he stood and cupped my face with his hands. “But it’s not just about the crazy hot sex we have, or the fact that you just gave me a blowjob in my father’s office.”
I laughed and dropped my head onto his chest.
“I want to spend the rest of my life with you, Timber.”
My breath caught in my throat and tears pooled in my eyes as I looked up at him. “What did you just say?”
Tanner took my hand and placed it on his chest.
“Do you feel that?”
I nodded.
“It beats only for you. I knew it the first time I saw you, and I know it even more now. Some people don’t believe in love at first sight, and I think at one point in my life I was one of those people. But I’m a believer now.”
“Me too,” I softly whispered.
“I’m about to ask you something, and I’m not sure what you’re going to say.”
I laughed. “What is it?”
“Move in with me, Timberlynn.”
I was positive my eyes nearly popped out of my head. “You want me to move into your bedroom with you? In your folks’ house?”
Tanner laughed, hard. “God, no, Timber. I mean, let’s move into a house together.”
This time I smiled. “You want to move in together?”
“Yes.”
I sighed, my happy bubble deflating as real life poked its ugly head back in. “My father, he’s…”
“Wait…before you say anything, I have an idea that I want to run by you. I’ve already spoken to my parents about it. It’s actually what Merit was talking about.”
“Okay.”
“I’ve asked my folks if we can purchase the cabin on the lake.”
His words rattled around in my head for a few moments. “The cabin? You mean the house on the lake? Because it’s not a cabin, Tanner.”
“Yes,” he chuckled. “The house on the lake.”
I shook my head. “Wait, you said we. As in, me and you?”
“Yes. I know it’s a huge leap on your part, and a big risk. But I don’t really see us breaking up, so…”
I put my hand to my forehead to ward off the instant headache. “Tanner, wait. This is moving way too fast.”
He stared at me like I just said the craziest thing. “I just told you I wanted to spend my future with you, what difference does it make if we start early? If we purchase this land from my parents, your father won’t even know about it because it’ll all be done in-house. He can’t interfere or outbid anyone.”
I swallowed hard and looked out one of the windows toward the lake in the distance. His thinking made sense. But a million what-ifs ran through my mind. I pulled in a deep breath and faced him.
“Buying a house together is a huge leap in any relationship. But buying a house that sits on your family’s land is altogether insane. Tanner, as much as I want a future with you, what if things don’t work out? Then what would I do? I’d have all of my money invested into a house and land that was sitting on your family’s property. I can’t do that. It’s not that I don’t trust you or trust us, but we’re still so new in this relationship. I just now got control over my future, Tanner. I don’t want to risk losing it again.”
After a few moments of thinking, he nodded his head. “I can understand your worry. There’s about two-hundred acres that separate the cabin…”
I raised a brow.
“Fine, the lake house from the next ranch. The Peterson’s own it.”
“Okay, but what does that have to do with anything?”
“When Brock and his first wife got married, my folks
