by Rina Kent
He leans on his elbows so they’re on either side of me. “Happy graduation.”
“Ugh, don’t remind me of all the things I have to do today. Kir was demanding to come here.”
Dad, Lewis, and Kirian will join us for lunch after the graduation ceremony, and then I’ve already made plans with Elsa, Aiden, and the others.
That is, if Aiden doesn’t decide to kidnap Elsa somewhere.
We always have family lunches and dinners now. Lewis and Dad are our fathers, and although I don’t call Lewis ‘Dad’ and Xan doesn’t do the same to my dad, we have that unspoken mutual understanding, sort of like the one Dad and Lewis had for years.
It’s easier this way and doesn’t give us grief from any prying eyes.
Mum moved to Paris two years ago. She sends us invitations to her exhibitions, but we don’t go. There isn’t even pain as we talk about her now. She’s like that distant relative no one actually cares about.
Even Kirian, who’s supposed to be attached to his mother, doesn’t want to spend time with her and is now striving to be a ‘proper’ man like Dad and his Uncle Lewis – his words, not mine.
“I’ll bribe Kirian with brownies so he doesn’t spend the night,” Xander says.
“Why can’t he?”
“Because we’re celebrating.”
“We’ll be doing a lot of celebrations for one night.”
“We’ll have to add one more then. The most important one.” He reaches under the pillow and retrieves a ring with a blinding green jewel on top.
My eyes widen as I stare between him and the ring. This can’t be what I think it is…?
“I’ve wanted to do this since RES, but Dad and Calvin said all that adult shit about college graduation and whatnot. Besides, I didn’t want to distract you more than I should. Needless to say, I’ve waited so fucking long to make you officially mine, to call you my wife, my life, and my future.”
I’m crying like a little girl by the time he finishes. “Yes! Absolutely yes!”
“I wasn’t asking. That means you have the chance to say no and I’m not having that, Green.” He slips the ring on my finger. Perfect fit – of course it is.
Sometimes, I think Xander knows me even better than I know myself.
He stops and looks at me more than I’ll ever stop to look at myself.
And for that reason, he’s not only perfect for me, but he was made for me.
Just like I was made for him.
“I love you so much, Xan.”
“And I love you, Green.” He claims my mouth in a slow kiss that robs my breath.
I’m melting and I have no interest in stopping it. London mewls, then jumps on the bed, demanding to join the celebration. She hates being left out.
Xander pulls away, “Now, for the wedding date.”
“What about it?”
“How about tomorrow?”
We both laugh as our lips meet again.
Epilogue 2 - Xander
Five years later
You know that feeling where you love someone so much that you’d kill for them, but sometimes, you want to kill them?
Those tiny moments where you want to strangle them while you fuck them.
This is one of those times.
Those thoughts have never stopped swirling in my head since the company dinner we had at Ronan’s house.
And now, Kim is walking by my side, interlacing her fingers with mine as if nothing happened.
We’ll see about that.
I enter the code to the apartment, and she goes inside first.
“I’m craving something to eat. What do you think we –”
Her words catch in her throat as I pull her by the arm and slam her against the apartment’s door. I grab both her wrists and shove them above her head.
She gasps and her green eyes fill with excitement so tangible, I can feel it over the black rage swirling in my brain.
“What were you doing back there, Green?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
She’s provoking me on purpose and fuck if it isn’t working. I yank her dress up, then my trousers and boxers down.
She bites her lower lip, her tits rising and falling heavily against my chest.
“You don’t know, huh? Because it seemed to me you were allowing that fucker from accounting to flirt with you before I kicked him out.”
“I was?” Her eyes widen with mock disbelief.
I lift her up by a hand under her thigh and she doesn’t need an invitation as her legs wrap around my waist.
“You’ll pay for it, Green.”
“I will?” she whispers in my ear.
I slam inside her so hard, my balls slap against her arse. Fucking fuck. She feels so right – so damn right.
She moans aloud as I fuck her hard and fast against the door. The bangs and the slaps of flesh against flesh echo in the silence.
Thankfully, for the neighbours’ sake, the apartment is soundproof.
Kim’s groans fill the air and her mouth opens in that wordless O.
“You like provoking me, Green? You like how I pulled you out in front all of them, claiming you as mine?”
“Yes,” she whimpers as I hit her sensitive spot over and over again until she’s screaming my name.
I follow her soon after, the force of my release knocking us both cold. Her head falls against my shoulder and she stares up at me with that dreamy, utterly pleasured smile.
“I love it when you don’t hold back, Xan.”
The haziness of the orgasm slowly withers away as I recall the reason why this particular release felt good. It’s because I haven’t fucked her this hard in weeks.
“Oh, fuck.” I carry her to the bedroom and lay her on the bed. Our cat, London, jumps away but remains at the door. I swear she’s the biggest voyeur on this planet.
Kim bites the corner of her lip and still has those ‘fuck me’ eyes that keep luring me close.
I place a hand on the bump of her womb. “Is she okay?”
“She’s fine.” She pulls me over by the neck and removes my tie, then undoes my buttons. “You’re awfully overdressed.”
She doesn’t stop until she removes my shirt and nuzzles her nose against her name tattoo on my heart. My wife loves that a bit too much.
My fingers lay in her hair that still has her signature green strands, although they’re not as loud now. “The baby, Kim. What if I hurt her?”
“You didn’t.” She gives me a dirty look. “If you hadn’t started holding back, I wouldn’t have provoked you today. Blame yourself.”
“But I don’t want to hurt our baby.” It freaks me the fuck out that I could damage her if I keep my usual rough pace.
The doctor said it’s fine, but it still makes me nervous as hell.
It doesn’t help that my beautiful wife has become so hormonal since the pregnancy that she even interrupts me during work, lying on my desk and demanding pregnant woman care.
Since we both have crappy mothers that are thankfully out of our lives now, Kim has been nervous about the mum’s role, but I know she’ll be the best one alive.
She’s been a mother figure to Kirian his entire life without even realising it. That’s why he never asked about Jeanine when she left.
Now, he’s excited about becoming an uncle and has begun threatening me to take care of his sister or he’ll ‘kick me’. Dad and Calvin have been calling daily and sending all sorts of shit since they learnt we’re expecting.
For the past eight years, I’ve spent with Kim, I’ve been the luckiest and happiest bastard alive.
There hasn’t been a day where she doesn’t make me laugh with her goofiness, or where she doesn’t root for me to be the best version of myself. Just like I do to her.
That’s what we’ve been doing all this time, being the best we could.
Kim has never stopped healing, but now, she looks back on that last year in RES with nostalgia. She doesn’t hide her scars anymore
. She could’ve had plastic surgery for her wrist, but she’s chosen not to. Whenever someone asks her about it, she says it was a time when she was lost, and then she found me and I found her.
And after that, we were never lost again.
Kim kneels on the bed and runs her fingertips over my semi-hard cock. “If her mum is happy, she’ll be happy.”
“Is that so?”
“Totally.” She grips me harder.
I groan. “You’re killing me, Green.”
“Admit it, you love it.”
“Oh, I do.” I take her scarred wrist with the bracelet dangling from it. She’s never removed it since that day I put it back on her.
Just like the wedding ring. And no, I didn’t marry her the following day of the proposal. I had to wait an entire month.
Small price to pay for finally having her by my side in all possible ways.
People marry their soulmates or those who complete them. I married the woman who gave meaning to my life.
She’s not only my soulmate, my life wouldn’t have existed without her.
“Make me yours, Xan.”
“You already are, Green.”
“Will you remind me again?”
“Oh, I will.”
I flip her over and she squeals, then gasps as my lips claim hers.
THE END
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He’s prince charming. Just not hers.
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Author Note
Playlist
Prologue - Kimberly
1. Kimberly
2. Kimberly
3. Xander
4. Kimberly
5. Xander
6. Kimberly
7. Kimberly
8. Kimberly
9. Xander
10. Kimberly
11. Kimberly
12. Kimberly
13. Xander
14. Kimberly
15. Xander
16. Kimberly
17. Xander
18. Kimberly
19. Kimberly
20. Xander
21. Kimberly
22. Xander
23. Kimberly
24. Xander
25. Kimberly
26. Kimberly
27. Kimberly
28. Xander
29. Kimberly
30. Kimberly
31. Xander
32. Kimberly
33. Kimberly
34. Xander
35. Kimberly
36. Kimberly
37. Xander
38. Xander
39. Kimberly
40. Kimberly
Epilogue 1 - Kimberly
Epilogue 2 - Xander
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