Page 83 of His for the Holiday

My heart tripped over itself and my lungs stalled, warmth spreading through my body as a whirlwind of physical and emotional sensations swept through me. Tingles ran from my fingertips to my toes as he pushed a little further into me, those eyes still on mine and truth of those incredible words shining from them.

I felt electrified, suddenly holding back more tears as a powerful mix of exhilaration and joy coursed through me. A sob wracked my body. I pressed my lips to his again and stopped fighting the tears, catching his face in my hands as they started streaming down my cheeks.

“God, I love you,” I murmured between kisses, bringing my feet to his butt and pressing my heels into it to encourage him to go further.

Hawk held me gently as he thrust all the way into me, kissing me as we started moving together in perfect harmony. Moans and sighs spilled out of us both, our hands in each other’s hair and roaming everywhere we could touch, eventually clawing at each other’s shirts to remove the last remaining barriers between us.

Having him inside me without anything between us was transcendent, making me feel like we were touching the realms of another world as he moved inside me. A world where only we existed and where we would never again feel anything other than pleasure.

I’d heard of making love before, obviously. I’d even thought I’d done it countless times and perhaps I had, but it’d never been anything like this with Calen. Here and now, with Hawk, I felt the immeasurable knowledge sink in that this was it.

This was the beginning of our forever.

I kissed him back. My toes curled and my body tensed, an orgasm starting to build within me. He held me close, his movements smooth and perfectly rhythmic as he thrust into me again and again, taking me higher each time our bodies connected.

When I finally let go, the pleasure that raced through me felt like an explosion of light and joy, a culmination of almost an entire lifetime of love and desire for this man. I cried out into his mouth with the intensity of it, and then he was coming with me, swelling deep inside me and filling me with his release for the first time ever.

We collapsed together in the aftermath, panting and kissing sloppily until our bodies finally stilled and Hawk managed to lift his head to look into my eyes again. “Do you still love me?”

I grinned lazily. “Maybe. I mean, I don’t know. I said all that⁠—”

He laughed, reaching for my ribs and tickling me until I was squealing and squirming underneath him.

“Fine. Okay? Yes, I still love you. Of course, I still love you. What kind of question is that?”

He shrugged as he lifted himself up on his elbow, still inside me as the laughter faded from his eyes and he brought his free hand to my cheek, just looking at me as he stroked his thumb gently across the skin underneath my eyes.

“It still kind of feels too good to be true, so I figured I’d better check.”

“Do you still love me?” I asked softly.

He grinned and brought his mouth to mine for a slow, tender kiss. “You know I do, Sutton. Everyone knows I do. Sometimes, I feel like I was the last person to find out.”

“All that matters is that you did find out,” I murmured, inhaling deeply and closing my eyes to drink in this moment once more. Then I sat up as he slid out of me. “Are you hungry?”

“Starving.”

“Grilled cheese?” I asked, getting up and striding over to the kitchen, still naked as the day I’d been born but for once I wasn’t self-conscious about it at all.

Hawk groaned, and I felt his gaze burning into me from where he lay on the couch. “Let’s eat fast. I haven’t had nearly enough of you yet, and as soon as we’re done, I’m taking you to bed and keeping you there for as long as I possibly can.”

A thrill shot down my spine, a smile spreading on my lips despite his looming departure. Hawk had to leave for a little while and that sucked, but he would be back, and once he was, this would be our lives. Maybe I wouldn’t get to be naked in the kitchen every day, but he, Winnie, and I were starting a new chapter together and I honestly couldn’t wait to see what we would fill its pages with.