Wonderful!! This was a nice quick, short read. I absolutely love it.
Berkley meets Ryder when she’s eating at his restaurant and she begins to choke. Ryder and his sister Melody notice Berkley choking and rush to her side performing the Heimlich maneuver. Ryder insist Melody take her to get checked out. Berkley is welcoming her first grade class when she notices Melody from the restaurant she had the incident at holding the hand of one of her students, Sienna. Berkley has thought of nothing else for the last month but the man who came to save her from choking. Ryder isn’t with them in the morning but comes to pick up Sienna in the afternoon. Berkley comes to find out that Ryder is her uncle and not her father. Ryder and Berkley talk and he tells her he wants to take her out, they exchange phone numbers. Ryder tells Berkley that Sienna’s no one else is to pick her up. Later that night Ryder calls Berkley she invites him over but he tells her not tonight, things will move to fast if he comes. At the restaurant Ryder talks to his sister about Sienna’s father, she tells him he wants visitation, but doesn’t pay child support. Ryder suggest she call her lawyer and get her involved. Ryder makes dinner for Berkley and she comes to the restaurant on his break to eat with him. When Berkley arrives she they start to kiss, Ryder tells her it’s been to long. When he picks her up and puts her on the table she tells him she sensitive. Then she shows him what she had done, he then pleasures her. Afterwards they talk about the future and eat dinner. Ryder takes her home, and they agree to meet the next night after he’s done with work. Ryder slides into bed beside her, being exhausted from the day. The next morning she wakes up being warmer than usually with him laying beside her. He flips her over and asks her if she is sure she wants to go further. She tells him she’s ready, they spend the day together. One month later, Berkley takes Sienna whenever Melody or Ryder isn’t available. Ryder made sure Berkley knew Sienna was his number one priority. They take her for adventure during the day when Melody can’t. Ryder and Melody get a phone call from the school that Sienna’s father showed up trying to pick her up. They rush to the school only to have Berkley have everything under control. Sienna hid in the little tent in her room while Berkley distracted him. The police showed up and arrested him. When Ryder and Melody arrive everything is over and Berkley and Sienna are huddled together. For Thanksgiving her parents invite them, Melody, Sienna and Tanner, Melody boyfriend. Ryder takes them up on the offer to meet her family. Ryder and Berkley start looking for a new home to call their own. Six and a half weeks later, New Years Eve, Ryder proposes to Berkley and she says yes. They closed on their new home right before Christmas. Six and a half years later they are headed to Virginia, Berkley is pregnant and has terrible morning sickness that last all day. They bought an RV to make the trip so they can spend time sigh seeing. Pulled over at the side of the road while Berkley tosses her breakfast, Ryder sooth her. He get her ginger ale and crackers to settle her stomach. When she is done they head to a near by campground for the night. She falls asleep and after he parks he carries her to bed. He makes her her favorite meal and lets her rest.