The Right Move (Windy City Series Book 2)

wanted.
“This is practically a how-to manual on how to please a woman. How are more men not reading these?”

Ryan is entirely focused as he always is on the court, running through ball-handling drills with Leon off to the side. Leon sees us first and while continuing to dribble, he gains Ryan’s attention, nodding our way.
Ryan looks up and that serious and stoic expression melts, my favorite beaming smile stretching across his lips. He drops both balls he’s working with and jogs over to us without a second thought.

How’s my favorite guy?” Stevie asks her nephew.
“I’m good, sweetheart!” Zanders calls out from the back of the room.
Navy’s giggle fills my ears as she plays with her uncle.

could not be more content, with my people, with my girl, and with my team on the way to the playoffs. This life, this home, this relationship is everything I never let myself want, and it’s more than I knew I was allowed to dream for.

m excited to be home with you all summer, neither of us traveling for work.”
“I’m excited to be home with you forever, Blue.”
She smiles, soft brown eyes filled with so much love. “Forever sounds perfect.”
Forever does sound perfect.

Indy and I might be opposites, but we’re more alike than I initially thought. We care about those we love. She’s nurturing and I’m protective, but it all comes down to a common denominator— we love hard.

It was the first question I learned to sign, so you could say I’ve been practicing it for a while.

turns to me, points, then signs the word protect again with his fingers creating the letter “R” at the same time. He points at me again.
“I’m Ryan?” I ask, using his sign for my name.
He nods, smiling.
Abigale leans her head on Tim’s shoulder as she looks at me.
“Is that my sign name?” I ask him to the best of my ability.
“Yes.”
Words stick in my throat, so I simply nod, sign, and mouth, “Thank you.”
“No. Thank you.”

But Indy, as much as she’s learned to be content in the quiet, will always be a social butterfly.
I didn’t buy this place to hide her away from the entire world, I bought it so she could bring our world to us.

my body that she’s here. That we’re okay.