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I let her caress my face and I watch her, my eyes hooded. “You make me human. You are the best parts of me. You make me feel. You make me love. You make me into what I am.”
She shivers. “Is it strange that I prefer you this way? Wild and inhumane, only mine to tame?”
I cup her face, drawing her closer, until our breaths are intermingled and she gives up control to me, letting me maneuver her. “No. It makes you mine. We are who we are, Kendall. All I know and all I care about is that I love you and that you love me.”
Her eyes bore into mine, a fierceness in them. “I do love you so much.”
As I lean in to seize her mouth, the world outside us is drowned out in the haze of love and emotions that wraps around us.
We have a long way to go. I want my ring on her finger. I want my child growing inside of her. I want a family with her, to grow old with her, to fight with her, love her, adore her till she snaps at me, kiss her till she melts in my arms and my touch is all she knows.
But for now, she’s here, in my arms. And she intends to stay here.
Epilogue
“Why do we need this?” Caleb is holding an ugly piece of artwork away from his body with just tips of his fingers as if it holds a contagious disease.
I grit my teeth as I reply, “Because it speaks to me.”
Jace, who somehow got roped into helping me unpack, stares at the hideous painting and chimes in, “Speaks what? A hundred and one ways to induce nightmares?”
Caleb hums a sound of agreement.
I scowl at the two of them. “It’s a beautiful sunset seen from the eyes of broken-hearted man.”
Jace takes out the small coasters from the cardboard box, and sniggers. “Looks like he drew a sunset and then took a shit on it.”
I give him a dirty look. “Why are you here? Don’t you have something else to do?”
“Tracy said that I should focus on family bonding,” he says dutifully. “And she said that she didn’t want to help you unpack.”
“Since when do you listen to what Tracy says?” I narrow my eyes, snatching the picture from Caleb.
He pauses and looks forlorn when I move to hang it above the television.
“Since she promised to bake me lasagna.” Jace sounds absolutely cheerful. “Man, you have some ugly shit here.” To Caleb he says, “There’s another painting in here. It’s worse than the first one.”
I glower at my fiancé.
Caleb manages to look horrified when Jace brings out the painting and flourishes it in the air with an ‘aha’.
“Get out, Jace,” I growl.
“Can’t.” He grins at me. “Tracy said I have to see this through.”
“Why can’t Duke help us?” I turn to Caleb. “At least, he shuts up when I tell him to.”
“He’s coaching Max’s football team.” Caleb nudges aside some colored clay pieces that Max has gifted me over the years.
My heart warms as he goes and puts them on the mantel.
“Although, I can’t believe that he got married before us,” Caleb grumbles.
The disappointment and accusation in Caleb’s tone makes me roll my eyes.
“He got Tracy pregnant. And then he used that as an excuse for a shotgun wedding. If you wanted a shotgun wedding, you should have knocked me up.”
When his eyes gleam in thought, I say hastily, “Don’t even think about it! That’s not a suggestion!”
