Page 57 of Inevitably Yours

John was hers, had always been hers. Even before he was aware of her existence, he was hers.

It was inevitable.

And she was his.

A gentle caress pulled him out of his own head. “Penny for your thoughts.” He could see the slight doubt in her eyes. She thought he was silent because he was regretting his declaration.

Taking her cheeks in his hands created enough space for her to see the truth when he spoke, “I was just thinking how I have always been yours. Utterly and completely. Inevitably yours. I was just too set in my ways to accept it. You’re my own personal paradise, a haven to be myself, and my past doesn’t haunt me there.”

Tears swam in her eyes, and she threw her arms around him. “Oh, John.”

He kissed her silent. “Don’t ‘oh, John’ me, unless I’m between those thighs. I love you, Augusta, and I want you to marry me. I promise to tell you often and show you even more, but that’s about as much mush as I’m capable of. I pray that’s enough for you.”

She silenced him with a finger. “Yes. Yes, to everything. You have always been enough for me, just the way you are. Besides, mush is overrated. And let’s face it, I have enough for the both of us.”

“Well, in that case.” John pinned her arms to the bed beside her ears. He dropped a quick kiss on her nose and levered himself up to stand on the floor. “On your knees, hands clasped in front.”

John turned away, tossed the condom in the trash, and retrieved his jacket from the chair. When his hands encountered the velvet square, he looked back at Augusta. She was as he asked, and he bit his lip at the sight. “Gussy Girl, are you looking at my ass?”

He removed the ring from the box and hid it in his mouth before stepping back into the position that snapped his control earlier. Gus nodded while clamping down on her bottom lip with her pearly whites. Eyes wide, eyebrows high. God, she’s a contradiction, all seduction and innocence. And all mine.

With the ring in his cheek, he spoke carefully, “Well then, if you’re a good girl and do as you’re told, then I’ll happily let you lick it.” He damn near swallowed the ring when her tongue darted out and whispered across the head of his cock then retreated as quickly as it had appeared.

“Hands.” Again, she was immediately compliant. He took her left hand in his, licked up the center of her palm, and sunk her index finger into his mouth. Her eyes sparked, and she whimpered prettily. The other fingers followed, each receiving the same treatment until her ring finger.

It sank in the same as the others, but it came out with his ring on it. Augusta was so caught up in the moment, she didn’t notice until he was sucking on her pinky. John smiled when she squealed and snatched her hand back to examine the promise he put there.

John caught her easily as she leapt of the bed and wrapped her entire body around him. “I love you so much. I don’t think I could be happier.”

“Really?” John asked while they tumbled back down to the bed. “Challenge accepted.”

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