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I shake my head again. “Well then you can call them and tell them I’m not doing it. I’ve retired, Mother. And as for the real world? That’s what I’m living now. I’m sick and tired of fake, shallow people using me for their own gains. I want my own life on my own terms. That’s not going to happen in California.”
“You’re just a little burnt out. You get this movie done and I’ll let you take a vacation.”
“That is not your decision anymore. I’m not sixteen and you can’t make decisions for me. I’m an adult. And I’m through being your meal ticket. I’ve already changed all the accounts to my own name and made sure that anything that you and my agent were allowed to agree to for me, it’s all gone. Neither of you have any hold over me anymore.”
“Fancy words,” she snorts. “I’m sure that’s what comes from sleeping with some backwoods neanderthal, Aster Petrov. But this is how you make money. You can’t just give it up.”
“I can and I already have. I’ve fired my agent and I’ve dropped out of the guild. I am no longer an actor. I’m just me. Aster. The woman who’s in love with the man beside me.”
“Ugh! I’m going into town and I’ll give you an hour to get to the diner before I leave.”
“You might as well not wait. I’m not coming. I’m already home.”
She stomps out and slams the door behind me.
Max sits up in bed and rolls me underneath him. I giggle at the fiery light in his eyes. “Did you mean it? You love me?”
I nod my head, my eyes glistening with tears. The love I feel for him overwhelms me. “I do. I never thought I’d fall in love with a man like you, rough and rugged and sexy as hell. But you’re it for me. I’m never leaving you again. This can be our home. Unless you want to live somewhere else?” I ask, my belly fluttering with nerves.
“No. I don’t want to live anywhere else. I want to live with you. Where doesn’t matter. But I put my heart and soul into this place because I could see us raising our future kids here. Living as a family and raising our own little happy brood.”
I smile up at him, my heart in my eyes. His own glow with happiness and maybe just one unshed tear.
“I love you, Aster. I want to marry you as soon as humanly possible. I want to make love to you every night until I fill this pretty belly with our baby. I want it all with you and only you, sweetness.”
“I want that too, Max.” I pause, my eyes drifting down. “But there’s actually one thing that I’d like right now.
He grunts and then smirks. “And what would that be?” His cocky smile makes me grin.
“I would really love another one of those bear claws. I’ve been dreaming about them since you got me the last one.”
“I will buy you as many bear claws as you want. Later. Right now, I’m hungry for something else.”
He grinds against me and my mouth goes dry. “I think I might be good with whatever you’re having,” I whisper into his lips as they descend to cover mine.
He rakes his mouth over mine and before long, we’re lost, thrashing wildly among the sheets. I feel him thrust inside me and then his lips wrap around my nipple, nipping at it as he grinds inside me. Over and over we melt together until we stiffen as one, our souls flying into the ether of lovers.
“I love you, Max!” I scream as he takes me over the edge into ecstasy like I’ve never known before.
He falls down across my body and his lips caress my cheek gently. “I love you so much, baby girl. I promise you that no woman will ever be as loved as you. I’m gonna spend my life making you happy and keeping you safe while you spread your wings and fly.”
It’s all I’ve ever wanted. A man who loves me to distraction. A man who’s sexy as hell and gives me multiple orgasms until I pass out from pleasure.
A man devoted to only me and our family. Our lives.
A man like Max Wilde. My forever man.
EPILOGUE: ASTER
“Max! Come on, we’re going to be late!”
“I’m coming. I still can’t believe Fern talked us into doing this interview,” he grumbles.
“It’s to promote the calendar. You need all the publicity you can get. And it’s only a local paper. So just answer a few questions, smile pretty and then we’ll come home and you can defile me any way you want to!” I laugh.
“Any way I want?” I can see the devilish glint in his eyes and I know tonight’s gonna be special.
I lean over and kiss his firm lips. “Absolutely. Now let’s go.”
