Page 26 of Finally, Our Forever

“We will be getting married. You are going to be having my babies.” She frowns at me. “No, get that thought right out of your head. Bennett isn’t being replaced. That kid is cool as shit, and he’ll be taking my name. He deserves to have a father who wants him around and teaches him how to be a good man. He’s going to be the best big brother to all our children. He is a part of you, and when I tell you you’re mine, that includes Bennett.

“Our future starts now, Maci. Do you hear me? If you don’t want this, you tell me now. No way in hell am I walking away from us. I’ve spent three years thinking there would never be an us. If you say you aren’t ready, that just means I have to try harder to convince you that what I say is true. I know you. The question isn’t whether I’m the man for you. We both know that I am. The question is if you can trust me to stay and to be here when the shiny rubs off and life gets real. I’m here. I’m here for every hard part and rough day. You’ve got me like you should have had me years ago.”

“Do I have you?”

“Yes,” she answers. “You have me, Reece Atwood. I’m yours until all my tomorrows are over, until the sun refuses to shine in the sky, and the rain no longer falls. You have all of me.”

I don’t wait to pull her into me; I devour her mouth like I’ve wanted to all week. She’s finally mine, and I’m not holding back from her any longer. I grind my hard dick into her heated core, placed perfectly over my lap. “I need to be inside you. Now.”

I stand up with Maci straddling my middle, carry her into her bedroom, and place her on the bed. She sits against the headboard, watching me undress. I pull my shirt over my head and unbuckle my belt. I watch her watch me, sucking on her bottom lip. It’s fucking hot to know she needs me as much as I need her. I pull my button on my jeans and zip them down.

“Shit. Wait, Reece. I know I didn’t ask last time, but you’re clean, right? You’ve been tested since the last time you were with someone?”

I get my jeans off, and I’m in nothing but my black boxer briefs. I go to the bed and straddle her thighs. I grab her hands in mine and pull them up, so they are covering my chest.

“Sweetheart, you’re the only one who will ever have me. I’ve never needed to be tested. I’ve never gotten close enough to anyone to have to.”

With wide eyes and an open mouth, she whispers, “You’re a virgin?”

“When I was in the Marines, when I thought I had given you up for good, I tried being with a couple of women after getting drunk enough. I could never go through with it. I could never give them the part of myself I desperately wanted to give to you. When I got home and found out I couldn’t have you, I was too messed up by what I had experienced over there to care about being with a woman.”

“You’re a virgin?” I nod sharply, not wanting to talk about this. It never embarrassed me, but now that I’m here with my angel, I’m worried I won’t be experienced enough. Over the years I fantasized about being with her, I pictured the many ways I would take her. Envisioning our first time has run on a loop through my mind since I touched her five days ago.

“Wow. Reece, I… I know this isn’t something you want to hear right now, but I was only with David, and it has been years since the last time we—”

I cut her off, not needing to hear this, but happy it’s only been him. “I got it, Maci. Let’s never talk about it again, okay?”

She purses her lips together like she’s tasted something sour and nods. I pull her hoodie and her white shirt-bra thing off her. Her blush consumes her face, and her hands go to her stomach, hiding her body from me. She looks away from me and closes her beautiful eyes.

I’m not a stupid man. I know she’s a bigger girl and has some curves and extra around the middle from when she was pregnant with Bennett. I love them, and the extra weight doesn’t bother me in the least. I find other women beautiful, but her body in any form is the only one that has ever done it for me.

I know she’s nervous, me seeing her like this. Last time she was naked was fast, and we weren’t thinking. This time, we’re slower, and are going into this eyes wide open. I know she’s scared, and that’s the last thing I want her feeling while I’m loving her.

I’m just going to have to show her how much I cherish her body. It won’t be a hardship, spending the rest of my life showing her, but I don’t want her to worry about what I think of it for another second.

I kiss the valley between her breasts, slowly licking and kissing towards one, and then the other. I show her nipples the attention they deserve until, Maci’s core is grinding against my cock and she’s shoving her tits into my mouth. I kiss up her neck and kiss her deeply. Her moans are becoming louder, and the restraint I was keeping snaps.

I pull away from her body and sit up on my knees while I remove her sexy boxers. I get up from the bed and lose the only other scrap of clothing that was keeping us from each other. I grab her ankles and pull her so she’s lying flat on the bed, before covering her body with mine and rub my aching dick along her wet slit.

“I’m not wearing anything, Maci. You want me? You get all of me. We’re starting our forever tonight, starting our family. I hope I put a baby in you this first time, and I’m not going to give up until I see the proof that my seed has taken root inside of you. You okay with that?”

A slow grin transforms her face. “Yes, Reece. I’m okay with that. Come here.” She pulls my face down to her and kisses me. She pours all her love into the kiss, and I feel the difference between this one and all the others we have shared. She’s all in, and she’s no longer holding onto any of the pain from before. Finally, she’s here in the moment, and the past no longer has a place in our future.

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