Where Love Finds You

Chapter 26

Copyright © 2020 Sara R Stewart

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I wake up feeling like I'm sleeping on the softest cloud. A hot sweaty soft cloud and somehow, I am weighted down and almost being pushed into the cloud. Cracking my eyes open I see where I am and the day before rushes back to me. I'm in the softest bed I've ever slept in surrounded by Tahoe with one of his leg and arms wrapped around me and practically crushing me.

I try to move because I really must pee, but Tahoe says, "No, I'm not ready to let you go."

"I just need to use the rest room. I promise I'll come right back."

"Okay, hurry," he grumbles with his head still buried in a pillow.

Chuckling while I extract myself from his vise like grip, I realize this is the second day I've woken up with him. I'm not going to think about that now as it causes my heart to start to race and my breath to feel shallow.

The bathroom is huge and beautiful with a soaking tub and a huge walk in shower. The shower has more heads and steam jets coming out from every direction than I knew a shower could possibly have. As I sit down to do my business, I take the rest in and then get up to wash my hands. Noticing the new toothbrush packages left out, I take a moment to also brush my teeth before returning to bed and Tahoe.

"Are you coming back to bed? I'm not ready to get up yet."

"Coming," I say getting a little thrill at Tahoe wanting me to come back to bed. What a difference a week has made in my life.

Crawling back into the fluffy cloud in the shape of a bed I am barely in bed when Tahoe pounces and rolls me onto my back with him on top of me. He nuzzles into my neck and apparently, that's what we are doing now, cuddling and going back to sleep. I let myself enjoy the moment, the smell of his hair and him. This moment is so...not casual and I push away from the feelings of fear and panic and hold on to just breathing him in.

I think at some point I doze for a minute or two, but then I'm awake and thinking about everything I've learned about Tahoe in the last twelve hours. He is the sole heir to a fortune, a billionaire, and yet he seems so incredibly normal. When I first met him, I thought he must live in his parent's basement with the career he has. I suppose to someone who didn't come from all this he may very well have lived in his parents' basement. Knowing Tahoe as I do now, I cannot help but think I'm a bit of a jerk to judge him like that.

How am I any different than those women who chase him because of his money. If I wasn't interested in dating him because he didn't have his life together? Being honest with myself I wouldn't have been interested in dating him that first day, even if I had known he was a billionaire. I was too scared of screwing up my own life, to consider dating anyone I found that attractive.