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I lean down, taking her mouth in a savage kiss, and Kavi’s arms cross around my neck. She locks her ankles at my lower back, pulling me in deeper. We’re a tangle of limbs and lips, a knot of yeses and forevers.

Her tongue hits the roof of my mouth and I groan, sucking it, as my hips move with purpose, drawing out this feeling. It’s goddamn ecstasy.

Not disconnecting our kiss, I drag my hand down her body, pulling down the other cup of her bra before rolling her nipple in between my fingers.

She whimpers and mewls, her hips arching against mine.

I do it again, pinching harder, and Kavi’s mouth goes slack against mine, a moan escaping. Lowering my head, I take her pert nipple into my mouth, laving it with my tongue before biting down on it until she’s squirming under me.

I continue to piston into her while my hand slides down to her clit. Rubbing little circles over it with my middle two fingers, I lift up and watch my cock move in and out of her. “Fuck, Kav, I’m losing my mind. Look at how pretty your pussy looks sucking my cock.”

She rises on her elbows to watch with me, her chest rising and falling with each thrust before her eyes drag up to meet mine. An electric charge passes between us as our eyes hold and my hips pump into her.

It’s fucking magic and fairytales. It doesn’t feel like my life and yet, it is.

Soul-crushing, heart-wrenching emotion rocks between us, like we’re caught inside turbulent, all-consuming waves, threatening to pull us under. And yet, we’d drown willingly.

Our tattered breaths collide as we watch each other, glassy-eyed and silent, until the walls of her pussy constrict, and she sucks in a hefty breath.

Her body stiffens beneath me, and I quicken the pace of my fingers over her clit as I angle my pelvis to get deeper, focusing on long, punishing strokes.

“Ohh!” Kavi’s resolve breaks as her orgasm crescents. Her fingernails dig into my shoulders with enough force to leave marks as she cries out, throwing her head back, “Oh, God, I’m coming! I’m coming . . .”

I’m right there with her, a few pumps of my dick away, as I bury myself to the hilt. Waves of euphoria wash over my senses as I succumb to the sensation building inside me. My eyes squeeze shut and I groan into her ear, my body jerking as I empty myself inside her. I whisper my love and dedication to her—how she’s mine and only mine—while I hug her close.

Her hand climbs to my hair, her fingers tangling, as shudders wrack our bodies—tremors of need finally releasing for the time being, until we’re lost in each other again.

I roll off her, my cock sliding out, before I pull her back to my chest. Moving her hair out of the way, I wrap my arm around her and kiss her neck.

Heaving chests and heavy breaths, we nuzzle in the wake of our second chance.

A new chapter. Our happily-ever-after.

A silence blankets over us as I hold her to me, like she might fly away if I don’t. My eyes roam around the room, taking in the surroundings that had gone unnoticed when we’d first entered. It’s a small apartment–cozy, colorful, andwarm–just the sort of place I’d expect her to love, with her precious night lights scattered about.

My attention is drawn to a corner near her window where an unveiled painted canvas catches my eye. I study the painting of a suited man standing at a bar, glass in his hand, surrounded by faceless men engaged in conversation with him. But his piercing blue-gray eyes are trained on someone beyond the frame, someone he can’t tear his gaze from. The border of the canvas is adorned with wildflowers, much like the ones at my ranch, and I realize the scene is from Maddy’s wedding.

Kavi notices my silent fascination, following my gaze. “I couldn’t get you out of my mind, and after that time we spent at Madison’s wedding, I knew I’d never be able to get you out of my heart, either.”

My heart swells and I pull her chin toward me, kissing her with every spoken and unspoken sentiment. Then, for the second time since we met, I ask her the same question. But this time, it’s devoid of the stipulations and timeline.

This time it’s forever.

“Move in with me,” I whisper like it’s a secret meant just for her. “Live with me. I can’t stand being in that house without your socks trailing the way to the laundry room and your night lights lighting up the hallways.” I pause, brushing my lips over the nape of her neck once more and telling her the entire truth. “I can’t stand being anywhere without you.”

She’s quiet for a moment, but I know she’s smiling. I can feel it like the warmth that surrounds me.

“I thought you’d never ask.”

EPILOGUE

Kavi - Three Months Later

We didn’t have a white Christmas, but we definitely had a cold and rainy one.

Though, cold is hardly how I’m feeling sitting around our living room with some of mine and Hudson’s closest friends and family.

“Thank goodness Meera and Rayne are finally asleep,” Bella announces with a relieved sigh, indicating her two daughters as she descends the stairs. Her eyes are affixed to her husband, Garrett, who is Hudson’s closest friend and a pilot for a big airline. “Meera, of course, argued that it was winter break and, as a ‘big kid,’ she shouldn’t have to sleep at the same time as her one-year-old sister. I bribed her with extra screen time tomorrow if she went to sleep now.”

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