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Marcus covers his mouth, brows scrunched tightly as he tries, and fails, to force back a sob. I’m a goner when he collapses into me, holding his head to my shoulder while he releases years of pent-up anguish.
“I know,” I murmur. “It’s okay.”
We stay like that, in the comfort and security we’ve only ever found in each other, and I whisper my fingers along his spine until he’s finally calm enough to face me.
His tear-filled gaze breaks with an adoring smile. “I swear to god, if we weren’t already married, I’d marry you all over again.”
I laugh against the lips he brings to mine—devouring, seeking, loving—and I meet him with as much force as I always have and always will.
“I don’t know how I’ll ever thank him for this…” he says between tentative kisses.
“He loves you,” I whisper. “It’s not something he expects to be repaid for.”
Marcus absorbs those words, knowing they’re true. Knowing that Mortie may not be perfect but he’s trying, and that’s all Marcus ever wanted.
“I guess you were right all those years ago.” He nuzzles a path down my neck, lighting a need through my middle that only he has the power to relieve. “To say I love you isn’t good enough. It won’t ever be good enough. But I love you, regardless.”
My heart sings for him, for everything he’s given us, and everything we’re yet to be.
“The windows are open…” I warn playfully when he palms my ass, bringing me impossibly close while nipping along my skin.
“You’re my wife and my whole world, slayer,” Marcus murmurs the nickname he refused to part with over my lips. “Let them see that.”
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