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“For the gift you gave me.” His hand covered mine. He lifted and kissed them. “For giving this old man a chance.” His voice sounded scratchy with emotion. “I love you, Juniper. I love you with everything I am. I know it might feel fast, and we don’t know one another perfectly, but—"
“With time,” I cut in with a smile on my face. “We have all the time in the world to get to know everything we can about one another.” His fingers tangled with mine.
“I love you, Juniper.”
“I love you, too, Dash.”
“Fuck.” He kissed me again.
Before I knew it, our bodies were tangled up beneath the sheets, our bodies slick with a fine sheen of sweat as we went over the peak of pleasure almost simultaneously. Tired and sated, I drifted off to sleep in the arms of the one and only man my heart could ever want.
7
DASHER
Ibreathed in deep and exhaled slowly, hoping I wouldn’t wake her. I couldn’t believe how fucking lucky I was. Juniper was mine.Fucking finally, the thing inside of me grumbled. Finally. She was mine, and I was hers.
I should have been dog tired after the night we had shared. Hell, I had just woken up a couple of hours earlier to her mouth around my dick. She’d swallowed me up and snuggled into me before we both drifted off to sleep. I felt her stir in my arms and grinned at her.
“Merry Christmas Eve,” I whispered, my voice rough.
“Merry Christmas Eve,” she whispered back before leaning forward to press her lips against mine. When she pulled away, her smile could have lit up the world with its brightness. “Last night really happened,” I grunted and winked.
“I can’t believe it.” She giggled, and then her smile faded. “You don’t regret it, do you?”
“That’s not fucking possible, angel.” I sat up and brought her with me, making her straddle me. “I have a surprise for you,” I whispered. She bounced slightly on my lap.
“You do? Is it long and hard?” she teased. I shook my head.
“No.” I kissed her forehead. “Stay in bed.” She rolled off me, and I grabbed a pair of clean sweats, pulling them up my legs, and then reached for a shirt for her. “I don’t want to cover you up, but it’s cold.”
“Thank you.” She blushed and pulled it over her naked body. I extended my hand, and she took it. We walked into the living room with my eyes never leaving her face.
I watched her eyes brighten as she took in the holiday decorations and the Christmas tree next to the fireplace.
“How did I miss this?”
“To be fair, you were on a mission.” The comment earned me a giggle, and then she gasped.
“Dash.” Her eyes sought mine, and I knew what she’d noticed. “Is that… Is that a stocking for me?”
“Yeah, baby girl. That’s yours.”
“You did this before I got here.”
“I didn’t like how sad you looked when you noticed I hadn’t decorated. I wanted to give you something—"
“You definitely gave me a lot already.” She wagged her brows, and I felt myself blush.
“I wasn’t sure if you would come back here, but… I needed to do something, and decorating made me feel closer to you.” She moved back into my arms.
“I love you, Dash. This is beautiful, but you need to know, all I could ever want, all I could ever hope for, is you.”
“I love you, too, beautiful.” I pressed my lips to hers, and she melted into my body.
Not for the first time, I wondered what the hell I’d done in my life to deserve the woman in my arms. Whatever it was, I was fucking thankful. And I’d be scrooged if I didn’t work day in and day out for the rest of my life to keep her looking at me that way.
EPILOGUE
