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I’d bet everything I had that her cheeks were bright red right then.
I kicked the door closed behind me and carted Jade up the stairs to my room. I had every intention of fucking her to the point she couldn’t question we belonged together.
“Just club me over the head and drag me by my hair; why don’t you?”
“Tomorrow,” I said, throwing her onto my unmade bed. I ripped my shirt over my head, then yanked my jeans down before caging her on the mattress with my arms.
When my mouth was a breath from hers, she pressed a finger against my lips. “Just promise me one thing. Don’t ever tell me to get out of your life again. Unless you really mean it.”
I pulled her hand away, then swept my hands up her bare thighs, pushing her skirt higher with every inch. “Trust me. Iwon’t. You’re it for me, Jade, and I’m fucking sorry I acted like you weren’t. I don’t want a life without you.”
“I don’t want one without—” Her breath caught when my fingers brushed her panties—“you.”
“And just so you know,” I said, sweeping her underwear to the side. “You’re not getting rid of me again.”
“I never wanted to.” She moaned when I pressed a finger inside her. Another finger followed, and her back bowed. “I never should have let you. I’m sorry.”
The heat of her pussy around my fingers was too much. I needed to be inside of her, to feel her wrapped around me. To know she was mine. “Fuck this.” I ripped her panties down her legs. “Ineedto feel you.” And with that, I slammed into her in one hard, deep thrust.
“Fuck,” she gasped, clamping around me.
God, I needed her. Needed this. I pulled out and drove deeper. The headboard slammed against the wall. “I love you,” I said, reaching the end of her. “I fucking love you.”
Her nails dug into my back. “I love you, too.”
There was no part of her I didn’t want, no part of me I hadn’t already given her years ago. I fucked her hard, then slow, covering her mouth with mine between whispered I love yous.
“Oh, fuck. Wolf.”
She gripped me so tightly, and right when I felt her reach that edge, I let go, groaning before collapsing on top of her.
After I’d caught my breath, I looked at her. “Next time you want to try to blackmail me for blackmailing you, make sure it ends just like this. You screaming my name.”
She whacked my sweat-slicked chest. “You’re such a smug asshole.”
“Yeah, but I’m your smug asshole.”
She wrinkled her nose. “And so cheesy.”
I kissed her, hard and long. Loving her scared the shit out of me, but losing her scared me even more. And one thing I was sure of, I’d never lose this girl again. Ever.
Epilogue
Jade
ONE AND A HALF YEARS LATER
Afternoon sun filtered through the pine trees, casting an amber glow over Zepp’s backyard. It glinted off the metal folding chairs and the rickety gazebo Hendrix, Bellamy, and Wolf had slapped together last minute. It wasn’t fancy, but somehow, it still felt magical.
I had nearly cried when the preacher introduced them as Mr. and Mrs. Zeppelin Hunt. If ever two people were meant for each other, it was Monroe and Zepp. They had weathered a storm together, just like Wolf and I had. If there was one thing I’d learned, it wasn’t the good times that defined you; it was the bad and how you came out of them. Wolf and I had failed once, but it had made us stronger. More grateful. More in love. Most importantly, it showed us what it was to live without each other.
Wolf took my arm, gently pulling me out from under the swaying structure. “That thing’s about to collapse.” He nodded toward Hendrix’s one-year-old, Axel, who was hanging off the poles and gleefully shaking it, like he was trying to bring thewhole thing down. Of coursehischild was feral. Poor Lola had already had to make him spit out mud three times, and his little suit was covered in it. He was adorable chaos.
Music crackled through the old speakers. Zepp and Monroe stepped under the gazebo and began their first dance. Her white dress trailed behind her, her gaze lovingly fixed on her new husband while he held her waist like he’d never let her go.
The structure shook again, and Wolf sighed before giving me a kiss. “Let me go get Hendrix’s little demon before he ruins this.”
I watched him hoist Axel up by the ankle and dangle him upside down while the kid squealed with unfiltered joy. Pretty sure my ovary twitched, not helped by the fact that Wolf looked way too good in his perfectly tailored suit.
