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His tongue slips between his lips, running it along his bottom lip as he bites down on it and draws in a long slow breath.
“I love you, Lauren,” he murmurs, his voice catching as he says my name and his eyes shining with tears.
“Oh Jack, I love you too,” I reply back as the tears fall quickly through the smile that stretches across my face.
I’ve waiting for this moment for as long as I can remember and it far exceeds my wildest dreams.
As we make our way back to my house, Jack’s hand interwoven with mine, he says, “By the way, what was with the wedding dress?”
“Don’t worry about that,” I say, flicking my other hand into the air. “I doused it with a bottle of cheap red wine and lit it on fire.”
Jack stops, an eyebrow raised as he looks at me, “You’ve always been crazy, but fuck if I don’t love it.”
Chapter Thirty-Three
Jack
By the time we get back to Lu’s place, my heart is pounding, my hands itching to rip her clothes off and have my way with her.
Like I said, when I woke up this morning, this is not how I expected my day to go, but fuck me if it hasn’t taken a huge turn for the better.
I love her.
I fucking love her and it’s something I should have told her weeks ago, hell, years ago if I’m being honest.
“What are you smiling at?” Lu asks as we take the steps to her front door.
Grinning, I spin her around, backing her up against the door as my hands slide to her waist. “You,” I tell her, my fingers slipping under her top. “You, me, this, US!” I practically shout.
Lu laughs and it’s the greatest sound in the world.
“I really do love you, Lulu,” I say, leaning down to kiss her. “I wish I’d told you that sooner.”
She grins, her mouth against mine. “We should’ve done a lot of things sooner,” she whispers. “But we’re here now, exactly where we’re supposed to be.”
I pull back a little, eyebrow cocked as I look down at her. “Almost,” I say, biting my bottom lip.
“Almost?”
My smile widens. “Well, you do have far too many clothes on for my liking,” I add, letting go of her waist as I open the door behind her and we both tumble inside.
Lu’s hands grab my arms as I walk us inside and down the hall to her room, the smell of burnt synthetic fabric wafting in the window.
“Jesus, you weren’t kidding about setting the dress on fire.”
She shakes her head, even as her hands are pulling my t-shirt off. “That dress, that man, that whole relationship are all dead to me,” she says, throwing my shirt on the floor and moving to my belt buckle.
I grin, pulling off her top as I back us up to the bed. “Same for me with Mel,” I say. “I don’t want her back,” I continue, unbuttoning her shorts as she shoves my jeans down. “I will never, ever want her back,” I add, unhooking her bra. “Because you,” I say, pausing as I slip my fingers into the edge of her panties, “are the only woman I want.”
Lu gasps as I fall to my knees, sliding her panties down her legs to her feet. I press my lips to the warm skin of her thigh, inhaling her scent. Two seconds ago, I was itching to tear her clothes off and have my way with her, but now, suddenly, I want everything to slow down. To savor this moment with her that feels like another new step in our relationship together.
I feel her fingers in my hair and I look up, find her staring down at me with a look on her face that I’ve never seen before.
“I love you,” she whispers, smiling.
“I love you,” I reply, kissing my way over her hip, her stomach, between her breasts and up her neck to her mouth where I whisper, “So fucking much.”
Lu’s arms slide around my neck as I ease her back onto the bed, following her down so my body now covers her, skin to skin, nothing between us anymore.
