Forbidden Best Friend's Brother (Forbidden Small Town Bad Boys Book 5)
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I pushed her back on the floor, laying over her. I stared into her eyes as I slid the ring on her finger. “I love you so much.”
Her fingers slid through my hair. “I love you too, Pax.”
Relief washed through me. “Those are the most magnificent words I’ve ever heard.”
She smiled. “I love you, Pax.”
“I’m the luckiest man in the world right now.” Then I stopped talking and started showing her just how much I loved her. How I worshipped and adored her. In front of the fire, we undressed, and I touched her, running my hands over her soft skin. Following my hands with kisses, tasting her body. Imprinting every inch of her on my brain.
“Look at me, Victoria.” I spread my body over hers. Gripping her hands in mine as I levered them over her head.
Her lovely blue eyes opened. In them, I saw passion and love and it nearly undid me. With our gazes holding, I slipped inside her, and oh my fucking God, I finally felt like I was home. Like I was tethered to the world.
“I love you,” I whispered as I bent down and kissed her. Our bodies moved in time. In the rhythm of the most perfect and beautiful music. I wanted it to last forever, but soon her body was arching under me. Her head rocked back, and I kissed her exposed neck as she cried out and her body spasmed around mine. Only then did I let go, and let my own pleasure sweep through me.
When our breaths returned to normal, I maneuvered her to my side, holding her close and kissing her head as I thanked God she was here.
“There’s one more thing,” I said.
“Oh?” she looked up at me.
“Since we’re married, it seems only right that we get engaged too.” I reached over the other box I’d set aside.
She laughed. “What?”
I handed her the engagement ring that matched the band. “We need to have a real wedding. It’s backwards, but I want to stand before our family and make a vow to love you forever.”
Tears ran down her cheeks again, and for a moment I worried I’d done this too soon.
She pressed her hand to my cheek. “Yes. I want that too.”
“Thank God.” I slipped the ring on her finger and rolled her underneath me and showed her how much I loved her again.
Epilogue
Victoria
At Winterfest, I’d been unable to keep my wall up. I wanted Pax. I loved him. But as we drove back to the cabin and sat by the fire, the wall had inched upward a bit. I couldn’t forget how he’d turned on me in an instant.
But slowly, he’d been able to reassure me. I knew it was a risk still, but I also knew it was a risk I had to take. One more time. If I didn’t, I’d always wonder if I’d let the love of my life go.
A few weeks later, on Valentine’s Day, Pax had rented out the snow tubing place and we stood at the top of one of the runs facing each other and holding hands. Next to him was Dane, and next to me was Allie.
For many, getting married, or in our case, remarried, at the top of a snow tube run was strange, but for us, it felt completely perfect. Our families were there to share in our joy at getting married, and to help them find their inner-child as well, although we had to make arrangements for Allie and Lily to be brought down on the ramp since they were pregnant.
Things were still strained a bit between me and Lily, but like Pax, she was making an effort to make amends. She seemed to be going above and beyond to support me and Pax. And I’d been truly thrilled for her when she shared that she was carrying twins.
“Wyatt about passed out,” she’d said when she shared the news during a visit with me, Allie, Emma, and Willa at Paradise Java. “But I think it was because he didn’t think he’d ever have one, and now he’s having two.”
“I suppose it’s because you’re a twin,” Allie said. Then she looked at me. “Maybe you’ll have twins with Pax.”
I glanced at Lily, wondering what she’d think of that statement.
“If you and Pax start soon, all our kids will be the same age,” Lily said.
I hadn't expected that.
“You too, Willa,” Lily said.
Willa blushed.
I smiled as I remembered seeing them here several weeks ago before their trip to Mexico. “So things went as planned in Mexico?”
“Yes. They did.”
We all congratulated her.
“That just leaves you, two, Victoria and Emma,” Lily said.
Emma smiled. “Tucker wants to make sure any child we have is born during the off-season so he can be there.”
“What is that, February? March?” I asked.
She nodded.
“So, sometime this summer, you and Tucker will be busy,” Allie teased.
“She and Tucker are always busy,” Willa joked.
I looked around the table, and realized that Pax had been right when he said he wanted to buy a place in Eden Lake. My business and his music would require us to travel and be away at times, but Eden Lake was home.
Because Lily and I weren’t quite back to where we’d been before, I’d hired her wedding planner Sasha to help me put on this little ceremony at the top of a snow tubing hill. She was excited to help. I was sure that was partly because she was planning a wedding for Pax Ryder; that had to look good on her resume.
Even Lisbeth and Ethan were there to celebrate with us.
“Victoria,” Pax started his vows. “You are the light that guides my way. That takes away the darkness. You’re everything. I promise to spend the rest of my days telling you that you’re my world and I love you so fucking much.”
His mother made a sound of displeasure. A few people chuckled.
“Pax,” I started. I’d struggled with writing vows because there didn’t seem to be the words to adequately express how I felt. “I promise to always be here for you, physically and emotionally. You’ll never feel alone.”
His breath hitched as I worked to make him understand that the one pain point in his life wouldn’t be an issue now.
“Oh, and I love you so fucking much.”
He laughed and pulled me in for a kiss.
“Well…I guess we’re there,” the minister said. “You can keep kissing your wife.”
Our guests clapped which sounded odd because they all wore gloves on this cold, yet sunny day.
“I present to you, Mr. and Mrs. Pax Maddox.”
I grinned up at him, loving how his blue-violet eyes shone down on me with such adoration.
“Ready to slide into our future, Mrs. Maddox?” Pax asked.
“Absolutely.”
He sat on an extra-large tube and pulled me onto his lap. “We’ll bring out our seven-year-old selves now, and then I’m going to take you on a real honeymoon and bring out the twenty-seven- year olds in ourselves.”
I laughed. “Both sound thrilling. When do we start?”
“Now.” He pushed off and we started down the hill. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my cheek as we picked up speed. I laughed, loving the wind, the speed, the man holding me close.
“I love you, Victoria,” he yelled as we careened down the hill.
When we hit the bottom and slowed down, he pulled me back and kissed me. “That’s how I feel all the time with you. You’re exiting, thrilling, and I’m so fucking glad to be making a life with you.”
I pushed him back off the tube and lay over him. “Let’s go home and do adult thrilling, shall we?”
We stayed at the tubing hill long enough to watch our friends slide down the hill. I had to admit, watching my parents, and Pax’s mom, sliding with his dad, was quite the sight.
We opted not to have a reception and instead, we left them to enjoy the tubing and headed straight to Vegas. Then tomorrow we were going to London.
“It’s the Pax and Victoria Historical Tour,” Pax said when he suggested it for the honeymoon. “This time, I’m going to get it right, though.”
This time, I knew, without a doubt, that he would.
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