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This time, Gemma doesn’t fight me. She lets me pick her up and carry her, bridal style, through the door to our apartment.
CHAPTERTWELVE
GEMMA
We barely get inside the apartment before Axel sets me down and presses my back against the closed door. His lips are on mine in the next second, and I fall under his spell once more.
He breathes me in and swallows me down, possessing me, body and soul. I tear my mouth away from his and gulp down air, but Axel isn’t finished with me yet.
His lips and tongue tease up and down my neck, and he nibbles at my pulse point, making me gasp softly. “Need to be inside you now, Gemma. Need to feel the woman I love from the inside out,” he whispers, diving in for another kiss.
“Love,” I repeat, my eyes finding his.
“I love you, sweetheart. Everything about you. Your kind heart, strong spirit, and sassy little mouth. I love how you pursue your creative passions and how brave you are in the face of pain and betrayal. I love your sense of humor and your adorable button nose. Your red hair, green eyes, neon-colored nails… there’s nothing I don’t love.”
I blink back tears, trying to put my thoughts together in a coherent sentence. All that comes out is, “I love you so much. I don’t know what I did to deserve someone like you in my life.”
“Gemma, you never have to earn my love. You have it just by existing.”
“Same.”
“Say it again,” he rasps, closing his eyes.
“Same?”
“The other thing.”
“I love you?”
“Now say it like you mean it instead of a question.” He opens one eye and grins at me.
“I love you. I love you. I love you,” I repeat.
“Marry me.”
My eyes widen, but I’m not overwhelmed or shocked by his statement. It makes sense. Of course, we’re going to get married. Still, I need to draw this out a little more. Make him work for it a tiny bit. Especially if he’s going to do what I think he’s going to do…
“Marry you?”
He nods.
“Is that a question or a demand?” I inquire with a raised eyebrow.
“Will you marry me?” he grunts, making me laugh.
“Hmm…” I tap my chin and look up as if trying to decide.
When I look down at Axel, his beautiful blue eyes flash with lust. The next thing I know, he throws me over his shoulder and carries me to the bedroom.
Axel claps his big, rough hand over my ass, making me squirm in his arms. “You took too long to answer,” he says matter-of-factly. “Now you’re mine.”
We burst into the bedroom, and Axel tosses me onto the bed, making me giggle.
“I don’t think that’s how it works,” I tease him, sitting up on the bed and quirking an eyebrow in challenge.
Axel stares at me and starts stripping. I watch his every move as I remove my clothes. Soon, we’re both naked and gazing at each other. I’ll never get used to this man’s perfect body. The muscles in his arms tense and tighten as he squeezes his hands into fists. My man is gloriously naked, with his massive cock growing right in front of my eyes. I lick my lips as a bead of precum forms and drip down the head of his cock.
“Fine,” Axel says with a grin, stroking his huge dick. “I’ll have to see if there are a few other ways I can get you to say yes.”
