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“Fuck paperwork,” I growled, slipping my hand up her skirt and running my fingers along her thigh to find the edge of her panties. “I bet cavemen didn’t have paperwork when they got married.”
I tugged and ripped the cloth, freeing the undies from one leg and causing the cloth covering her most intimate parts to fall down and expose her fully to me.
“I bet cavemen didn’t even get married,” Chloe countered, reaching out to unzip my pants.
I hissed when she pulled me into her hand and stroked the turgid length. Then my head fell back as she pumped me a couple of times between her fingers. Once I couldn’t take it anymore, I latched my hands around the table on either side and looked into her eyes, letting her know with a single stare: I wanted to be inside her…immediately.
“They did if they had any brains,” I countered.
“Well, they were Neanderthals, so…” She started to guide me to her entrance.
Just as I felt her wetness against the head of my cock, I leaned in to whisper, “All they had to do was be able to say…mine.”
And I pushed inside her.
Chloe gasped and arched her head back. I started a steady rhythm of thrusting, and she shuddered with a sob. “God, I’d already forgotten just how good you feel in me.”
I smiled. “Happy to remind you.”
She looked into my face and rasped, “I love you.”
My eyes watered, and I cupped the back of her head before swooping down to kiss her heatedly until we both came. She squeezed her thighs around me, shuddering, while I groaned and filled her with my heat.
I waited until I had my breath back before I leaned by her ear to whisper, “I love you too, Chloe Hamilton.”
A faint smile drifted across her lips as she touched my face. “You know…earlier today, before we left for the funeral, I was thinking about leaving you.”
I caught my breath, unable to grasp any air for a moment, but then I nodded and confessed, “I was thinking about letting you.”
She zipped her gaze up to my eyes in surprise, and I cringed guiltily. “I thought my being with you was just a big glaring reminder of everything bad that’s happened to you lately. I thought merely looking at me hurt you, and I couldn’t stand to hurt you. I was damn near willing to do anything to help you feel better, even if that meant leaving.”
She blinked at me as if I was saying the most ridiculous thing ever. “But don’t you understand?” she said softly. “You were the very opposite of that. You weren’t what was bringing me down; you were the only thing holding me together and keeping me from falling into this black pit of nothingness. You were the only bright thing I saw at all, and I didn’t think I deserved that. I wassupposedto be in that pit, Iwantedto be in that pit. To punish myself. And the only way to get there was to either drag you down with me or cut you free so you still had a chance to be happy without me.”
She sniffed, and tears filled her eyes. “I didn’t want to hurtyou.”
“God…” I breathed, cupping her cheek and pressing my brow to hers. “What a pair we make, huh? We were both convinced we were bad for each other when honestly, we’rebettertogether.”
Chloe gripped my shoulder and held on tight. “I’m so sorry that our better or worse started out with worse.”
“Hey, it’s okay,” I said, stroking her hair. “It wasn’t your fault. Just think about it, though. If we can make it throughthis, we can make it through some pretty rough shit.”
“Except Nia’s still gone. God, I’m going to miss her. She had the most contagious laugh.”
I nodded slowly. “And she made the best strawberry cheesecake bites.”
Chloe sighed. “Drea has no mother. And Julian… Gah, I have no idea how he’s going to make it through this.”
“With the love and support of his family,” I promised her. “Because you can focus on him now. And you can finally begin to mourn the loss of your sister-in-law without so much crushing weight of guilt on top of all of it.”
“All because of my nosy, loud-mouthed husband,” she told me lovingly. “Who couldn’t just shut up and let me suffer in agony.”
“You’re damn right,” I told her before setting my mouth to hers. And I’d always speak up on her behalf, always champion her point of view, always love her beyond measure.
Chloe was my forever person, and I was going to ensure that I could get as much of that forever with her as I possibly could.
EPILOGUE
LUKE
