Total pages in book: 88
Estimated words: 83180 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 416(@200wpm)___ 333(@250wpm)___ 277(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 83180 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 416(@200wpm)___ 333(@250wpm)___ 277(@300wpm)
“We’re going to have the most perfect children because we’re going to be doing a lot of practicing.” My life was perfect in that second and would be every moment I was with Hollie. I couldn’t want anything more.
I pressed up on my hands, driving my cock into her as she whimpered for more. I had to block out everything but the very second I was in. If I thought about how she’d proposed or how she was going to be mine forever, how I’d get to touch her and hold her for the rest of my life—if I thought about anything but that very moment, it would be too much for me to bear. I just needed to focus on the pressure of her heat. On the drag of my dick as it pulled out and then slammed in, deeper this time. I just needed to press my lips to the dip at the base of her neck, eliciting a groan as I licked up to her ear. Then everything in the world was how it should be.
I felt like a clumsy teenager where everything was a new experience and you didn’t want to wait, didn’t want to hold back. I grabbed her hands and pressed them over her head, and she smiled at me. “I love you,” she said.
Would I ever get tired of hearing those words from her? For a split second, I was catapulted into the future, both of us gray and slow, wild horses still galloping across my chest every time I heard those words from her lips.
“I want you every way,” she said. “I want you in my mouth and my pussy at the same time. I’m greedy for you.”
Lust fizzled up my spine like the fuse on a stick of dynamite. The feeling was entirely mutual. For now, she’d have to wait for my dick in her mouth. My tongue would have to satisfy her. I kept thrusting trying to get closer and closer to her as sweat coated my skin like I was running a marathon. She twisted her hips, bucking beneath me, and a groan roared up through my chest and echoed through the room. I fucking loved fucking this woman. And I fucking loved her.
“Dexter,” she called out, pulling me closer as my head fell to her neck.
“Hollie,” I gasped, feeling my climax spiraling and twisting in my body, trying to break free.
She pulsed around me and sucked in a breath, her eyes open and on me as she came. The look of fulfilment in those green-blue eyes was all it took to sever the last delicate strands of my desire, and I pushed in one more time, pouring myself into her and collapsing over her.
“I love you,” she said, pulling me closer as I tried to move off her.
“I love you too,” I said, moving to the side. “Will you marry me?”
She sat up with a jolt. “I asked you already.”
“I know but that can’t be the proposal. To be fair, the perfect proposal isn’t when we’ve just had sex. Even though it was mind-blowing. We need something we’re going to be able to tell our grandchildren about.”
“Okay, I’ll think of something.”
“Hollie,” I said, my tone warning. “I love you. And I know you are fiercely independent because you’ve had to be your entire life, but let me have this, will you? Let me figure out how I’m going to propose, make a ring and surprise you, okay?”
She rolled her lips back. “Relationships are supposed to be two way, Dexter. You should know, because you’re the one who taught me.”
What Hollie had yet to realize was that just being with me, just choosing to exist in my orbit, was more than I could have ever hoped for. “I want to give you the world, Hollie. But I’ll settle for the proposal, for now.”
She wasn’t just a prize but a jewel, the most precious creation I’d ever held. I’d spend a lifetime protecting her, looking after her and trying to give her half of what she gave me.
Epilogue
Six Months Later
Dexter
A year ago, I would have thought the idea of Daniels & Co hosting a party in London, let alone opening a store in Knightsbridge, completely ridiculous. As I glanced up and saw Hollie coming toward me, it was clear to me that this one-woman whirlwind had altered the entire course of my existence. If she’d never been at that launch party and I hadn’t noticed her enjoying my parents’ jewelry, my life would be very different.
I wouldn’t be opening my London showroom.
My brother wouldn’t be here to celebrate with me.
And I wouldn’t have an engagement ring in my pocket.
But how could I have not noticed her? In a roomful of priceless jewels, she outshone them all.
We had thirty minutes until the start of the party, and I’d convinced my family to be here early. I was just waiting on the final stragglers.