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Straddling him, I cupped his face and waited for him to raise his gaze to mine.
“You're the best man I've ever met. My gut told me you were the man my soul needed way back before college, and now I know it to my core.”
“There’s no erasing my past, Kaila. Your brother is right as much as I hate to admit it. I could drag you down with me, and I would die if that happened.”
“There’s no turning back. Didn’t you tell me I was yours?”
A dark shadow passed over his expression. The same one I saw yesterday when he whispered those claiming words to me.
“I did,” he gruffly acknowledged.
“What about your father?”
“Once he knows your true story, he'll see I'm right. You are a tender-hearted mountain of a man, and I never stopped loving you deep down.”
“I know for a fact I never stopped loving you.”
He scooped me up and held me closer until our hearts practically beat as one. I hear a knock at my door, but his lips are on mine and the curtains are pulled so we’re okay. For now. It’s just the two of us. No one to tell us our love was wrong. He took our kiss deeper, buried his hand in my hair, and held me close.
I had a feeling our happily-ever-after was just getting started.
Epilogue
Kaila
Four years later.
It’s amazing what could happen in the span of a few years. My life could not be better. I’m married to my one true love and not only have we blended our hearts, but our businesses were now one, too. The bookstore owner and her ex-con tattoo artist. A few months after my grand opening, Diesel bought the building next to mine and moved his tattoo shop next door. For our wedding, we bought a sweet four-bedroom home and some land for room to grow our family just outside of Savannah. We have the best of both worlds, country and city.
I giggled to myself every time I thought about how unlikely we were to make a match according to all the naysayers. But we made it work and work well.
My brother and Diesel finally mended their broken friendship, and now I can’t pull them out of the garage on Sundays. It’s all motorcycle this and car motor that. And five days out of the week he visited with my dad after hours, learning the art of carpentry. My man was multi-passionate and his family topped that chart. It took a while to win my dad over, but he finally came around. Diesel made sure of it. My mother proved to be a different story but, hey, that’s life. She loved the grandbaby though, so there was that.
Speaking of, he was due to wake for his afternoon feeding any minute, and I just spied the last customer leaving the shop.
“Hey, Mom. Can you watch the baby for a minute?”
Never try to fool the people who have been where you are. She turned a smirk on me and waved me off. “Go be with your husband for a while. I’ll watch the baby.”
I kissed her on the cheek and mozied over to the tattoo parlor. Seeing everyone was either out to lunch or gone for the day, I slipped into the back room.
“Got time for a quickie?”
Diesel looked up from a drawing he had spread out on a large table and grinned. The love of the best man in the world stared back at me, and my heart fell for him all over again.
“Always for you.” I fell into his opened arms and melted my curves to the hard body of my man. Everyone wanted a piece of him. Everyone from California to the East Coast sought him out in our corner of the world to have his ink on their skin. I could not be prouder of the reputation he built for himself. But today, right this minute, he was all mine.
He cupped my ass and hoisted me up onto the table. Lucky for us I opted for a short, flowy dress that made getting to the good parts faster.
He slipped a hand under to the front and cupped my mounds. Placing my palms down, I leaned back, forcing my tits high. He knew what I liked and went in, pulling first one plump breast out, then the next.
A finger dragged through my juices. “Mmm,” he purred. “Wet? Already?”
Without a word, I leaned forward, flicked his belt buckle open and sighed at the sound of his zipper lowering. “I was reading.”
He chuckled. “Another romance?”
I nodded, pouting out a lip. “It made me horny and needy. I had to come right over.”
