“There aren’t any boundaries between us, Harmony. And I wouldn’t say I’m okay with what Diego told you, but I believe it.” Blowing out a hard breath, Jake forced his tense shoulders to relax as he looked down at her. “I spent a lot of years hating Diego Fuentes with a bone deep, soul crushing intensity. I been biding my time for twenty years to watch that bastard fall. Learning that I hated the wrong man all this time… finding out that I’d focused all that anger on the wrong person – I’d be a liar if I said that it wasn’t fuckin’ with me. But I’ve got you now. I have Heaven. I’ve got better shit to do than plot revenge. A lot better things. Don’t get me wrong, I pray Diego brings his father down for what he did. Bastard has it coming. I just won’t be there to see it. I don’t need that anymore. I’ve got what I need right here in this house.”
“You quit a career you loved for me, Jake. You’re turning your life upside down to be with us,” Harmony remarked gently. “Are you sure you won’t resent doing all that for us?”
Jake chuckled deeply as he shook his head at the woman in his bed. “You still don’t get it, do you? Darlin’, I spent a fuckload of years doing bad shit for good reasons in the name of my job. I’m proud of what I accomplished, but that doesn’t mean that I liked the man I had to be. Here, in this little town with you and Heaven and the rest of your crazy family, I found the man I wanna be. I’m a Daddy now. I’m a respectable property and small business owner. And I’m gonna be a husband in no more than about six weeks so you best get on that shit,” he finished with a stubborn set of his jaw
Harmony’s jaw dropped as her eyes widened. “I-is that your way of proposing, Jacob Stone?” she asked when she could finally move her stunned lips.
“Proposing would indicate I made a request that you could refuse if you took a notion. I ain’t doing that shit. I’m goin’ with makin’ an irrefutable statement instead. You listening? Here it is. You’re marryin’ me, Harmony McKinnon, and makin’ a completely honest man out of me. We’re not doing that half-assed livin’ in sin bullshit for any longer than the six weeks it takes you to plan our wedding which I know you can do because you’re a kickass wedding planner. We’re doing this shit up right and proper, and I’m not given you a chance to say no to me.” Jake was unrelenting as he continued, laying it all out for her. “Tanner’s dead, so that means I can formally adopt Heaven now without any problems. She’s callin’ me Daddy, and I love it, but she’s gonna wear my last name just like you do. I’ll tell Abel tomorrow that he needs to get started on that shit, too,” he mused aloud as his woman gaped at him. “And you and our girl are moving in here starting now. I bought this house for all of us and this is where we’re gonna be staying. You’ll start every day in my bed under my roof, and you’re gonna end it that night in the same position. I love you – so deep that I can feel you inside me every time I take a breath, Harmony. I’m not letting go of that feeling and I’m not gonna let you avoid it either.”
Harmony opened and closed her mouth, trying to find her words as Jacob leaned over her, bracing one arm on either side of her head.
“Say you get all this, Harmony. Say you want it, too,” Jake demanded, his lips hovering just above hers.
“Y-yes,” she whispered a split second before his mouth covered hers, his tongue forcing its way between her lips to tangle with hers. Sinking her fingers into his hair, she moaned into his kiss, meeting every stroke of his tongue with one of her own, relishing the feel of her smooth lips dominating hers. She wasn’t sure how long they exchanged deep, wet kisses, but when he lifted his head, his lips were lifted in a self-satisfied smile. “I can’t believe you just bossed your way into marrying me, adopting my daughter and moving us in here.”
“What you call bossy, I call assertive.” Reaching one long arm toward the nightstand, he jerked the drawer open and rooted around inside. “I did forget something, though.”
Harmony raised one eyebrow. “Your vow to keep me barefoot and pregnant as much as you possibly can, Tarzan?”
“That goes without saying. Although, for a while, I think it just needs to be the three of us. I want Heaven to understand that no matter how many kids we have, she’s always gonna be my child, too. My first child. We add another baby in right away, she might not get that,” Jake replied, never missing a beat as he found what he was searching for, palmed it and pushed the drawer closed.
“I think you just made me fall in love with you a little more,” Harmony confessed huskily. She adored how much he loved her daughter. Well, their daughter, now.
“I’m glad, babe, but this is what I forgot,” he muttered, shifting on his side and lifting her left hand in his before sliding a platinum band down her slim ring finger.
Harmony gasped when she saw the size of the diamond winking on her finger. A simple but elegant emerald cut and at least two carats, the ring made a statement no one would ever miss. She was taken. Very, very taken by Jacob Stone.
“You like it?” he asked gruffly, watching her face closely. “I don’t know jackshit about rings, but that one made me think of you.”
“It’s beautiful,” she choked, still staring down at her hand. “Perfect, Jake,” she whispered, lifting her hand to touch his face. “You’re perfect.”
“Oh, I’m a long way from that, babe,” Jake denied, turning his head to kiss the inside of her palm. “But I am yours. Have been since the day you walked up to my table in the diner, looked at me with those pretty eyes I can’t help gettin’ lost in, and told me you’d stick with calling me Jake. I think I fell in love with you in that moment and I’ve been sinking deeper every day since.”
“I love you,” Harmony breathed, her eyes shining with tears as she stared at him.
“I love you, too, darlin’. Now,” he began with a wicked smile that made his eyes warm and twinkle, “That ring is to seal the deal for you.” Tugging the deep red terrycloth towel wrapped around her body with impatient fingers, he continued, “I want what’s hiding underneath here to seal the deal for me. Been dreamin’ about sinkin’ into that sweet body since we walked through our door tonight. You alright with that, baby? You’re not too sore, are you?”
Harmony’s back arched in response, the towel loosening beneath her breasts as she moved. “No, not too sore,” she breathed as his warm lips coasted against the curve of her shoulder.
“Don’t wanna hurt you, Sweetness,” he worried huskily, his tongue sliding against the swell of her breast above the towel. “Never wanna hurt you.”
Wriggling the towel free of her body, Harmony shook her head. “You won’t. You wouldn’t. It’s not how you’re made, Jake. It’s one of the many reasons I love and trust you.”
“You humble me,” Jake mumbled into the curve of her neck, sliding his hand down her neck and over his side. “Every time I touch you, I feel like I’m putting my hands on something priceless. Never felt like that before you. Didn’t even know it was possible to feel so much.”
“Me either,” Harmony admitted, gasping as his roughed palm slid up her torso to cup one breast in his hand. “After Tanner, I never thought I’d be able to give myself completely to a man again. I didn’t want to give that kind of power to somebody else. Then, you came along and I couldn’t help myself,” she confessed, moaning low in her throat as the pad of his thumb rubbed her swollen nipple in a slow caress. “Now, I don’t want to imagine my life without you.”
Rolling her turgid nipple between his thumb and forefinger, Jake’s eyes dropped to watch her flesh harden and swell. Licking his lips, he shook his head. “Baby, life without me is not something you ever need to think about. You’ve got me for the rest of your life,” he promised, tipping his head to sweep his tongue against the needy peak he held. Smiling as her lithe body squirmed beside him, he whispered, “That feel good?”
“Mmm hmm,” Harmony hummed, hissing in a breath as his tongue circled her nipple again and gasping when he sucked it between his lips, the suction of his mouth making her pussy contract. Liquid heat pooled between
her legs as he moved his mouth from breast to breast, licking and nibbling the flesh like she was the sweetest treat he’d ever savored.
“Love these pretty tits, darlin’,” he muttered a second before he tugged one nipple between his teeth in a gentle bite that sent her hips surging off the bed. “Perfect little mouthfuls for me to eat.” He lifted his head to stare down at her glistening rosy nipples. “Can’t wait to see our baby nursing from these beauties.” He palmed one globe in his hand and squeezed.
“Jake,” Harmony moaned, cupping her hand around his neck as he licked her breast again. “I need you,” she begged as her legs moved restlessly on the mattress, the empty ache in her loins intensifying as he offered her a slow wicked grin.
“Do you?” he teased, planting his elbow in the bed as he leaned up on one arm. “Show me, baby. Let me see how much you need me,” he ordered, trailing two fingers down the center of her chest as his eyes drifted down her body. “Let me see how much that pretty pussy needs me. Spread those long legs for me and show me how wet you are,” he demanded hoarsely.
Ready to do anything if it meant he’d ease the throbbing inside her, Harmony quickly shifted her legs open, leaving herself vulnerable and exposed. Once, doing that might have bothered her – opening herself up so wantonly, but she now had the benefit of knowing that Jake would never take advantage of the trust and faith she placed in him.
“Jesus, darlin’,” Jake groaned as he stared down at her parted folds, already coated and shining with her juices. “You’re so fuckin’ beautiful. Every part of you,” he whispered, sliding his fingers through the honey coating her thighs. “Pink and perfect,” he murmured, brushing his thumb against her swollen clit peeking from beneath its hood. “You’re drenched for me already and I’ve barely touched you.”
Lifting her hips as he offered her another teasing, barely-there caress, she moaned, rubbing her pussy shamelessly against his fingers. “Can’t help it,” she replied breathlessly. “I always want you.”
Glancing at his tented sweatpants, he smirked. “As you can see, darlin’, that goes both ways. I’m always hard for you.” Grimacing when her hand dove into the fleece pants, he growled when she encircled him, pumping his cock in her fist.
“I like you hard,” Harmony confided, sliding her hand up and down his hot, thick flesh. She enjoyed the look of pleasure on his face, knowing that she was the one that put it there. Having that kind of power was a heady, thrilling experience. Knowing that she could please him so much with just a brush of her fingers filled her with a sense of feminine pride. “Let’s me know that I’m doin’ something right.”
“Baby, you’ve got my dick in your hand,” Jake growled through clenched teeth as she stroked him again beneath his pants. “Trust me, I think you can do no wrong, but if you don’t stop, I’m gonna cum in your hand like a randy teenager.” He groaned as her hand tightened around him. Capturing her slim wrist, he pulled her hand away from his rigid member.
Harmony smiled as Jake rolled to his feet and quickly shucked the sweatpants, leaving him standing naked in front of her beside the bed. “Talk about beautiful,” she murmured, eyeing him hungrily as his dick jutted proudly from the soft nest of hair dusting his groin. “You look like some kind of pagan god standing there.” Unable to take her eyes away from him, she gazed at his gorgeous body. From his darkly handsome face to his broad, strong shoulders, her eyes moved hungrily over him, devouring the delicious sight in front of her. He held his muscled tattooed arms at his side, hands propped on his hips while his hard, ripped chest moved steadily up and down. Between his legs, the proof of his arousal stood proudly erect between his legs, and she silently acknowledged that he was all man in every way, and more importantly he was all hers. Forever.
“You ready to sacrifice yourself at my altar, darlin’?” he asked with a feral smile as he crawled back in bed beside her.
“God, yes,” she whispered as she scooted over and he settled on his back at her side, propping his back against a mound of pillows behind his back.
Cocking his knees, he drew his legs up and planted his feet in the bed. “C’mere, baby,” he urged, reaching for her and closing his hands around her hips, he swung her body over his, his strength stealing her breath as he settled her over him.
Bracing her hands on his shoulders, she moaned when his head bent to capture one breast between his lips as his hand cupped the opposite globe, rolling and pulling her nipple with talented fingers. A slave to the desires of her own body, she ground her mound against his thigh, rocking her hips and rubbing her wet heat brazenly against the bulging muscle.
Gripping her hips, he lifted her suddenly, shifting her up his body. “Brace your hands against the headboard, baby,” he growled, shifting his hands from her waist to her thighs and spreading her. “I need to taste your honey more than I need to breathe,” he warned before burying his face in her pussy, swiping his tongue up her slit and groaning.
Harmony gasped as he began eating her with furious swipes of his tongue, greedily licking and sucking at her flesh in a carnal display of masculine dominance. Her fingers curled against the wood as he swirled his tongue around her distended clit, pulling a low, keening cry from her lips as he flicked in with his tongue and sank two fingers inside her pussy. Her hips rode his tongue, rocking to and fro as he edged her toward orgasm. “Jake, oh, God! Right there,” she whimpered as his tongue lapped at the throbbing bud between her legs and he fucked her deeply, crooking his fingers inside her and pushing her closer toward bliss. He hummed hungrily against her cleft before pulling her clit between his teeth and biting lightly as she keened, satisfaction finding her in huge, encompassing waves of heat. “Yes, yes, yes,” she chanted, her voice high and tight as her hips jerked rhythmically against his face as she rode out her orgasm on his tongue.
Lights exploded behind her closed eyes and her head fell back on her shoulders as she screamed her way through her peak, shuddering above his mouth as he groaned appreciatively and drank down her release like a man dying of thirst. Harmony caught her weight against the headboard as she came back to herself. “Jake,” she breathed, still trembling as his hands smoothed over her ass and his lips placed gentle kisses against the inside of her quivering thighs.”
“Love feelin’ you cum on my mouth, darlin’. Love tasting your honey on my tongue, but now I want you to scoot down here and let me give it to you again while you take me there. I wanna feel that tight, sweet pussy swallowing my cock while I watch those gorgeous tits sway in front of my lips. My cock is gonna explode if I don’t get inside you soon.”
Still breathless, Harmony shifted her position quickly, shimmying down Jake’s body until she sat poised above his cock.
Stilling her with a hard hand on her hip, Jake stared up into her eyes. “I want you bare, baby. Nothin’ between us. I wanna know when I shoot off, I’m putting my seed inside you. I know you haven’t been on the pill very long, but I need this tonight. You know I’m clean, but if you’re really not okay with that, I’ll…”
Locking eyes with him, she lowered her hips quickly, impaling herself on his thick length and giving him her answer. Soft and wet from her orgasm, she slid over him easily and was rewarded with a low groan of approval as his fingers bit into the skin at her hips.
“Ah, fuck,” he cursed, his head pushing back against the pillows as his hips lifted off the bed. “That’s it, Harmony. So goddamn tight and wet. I can feel you rippling around me, baby. Love it. Love you,” he rasped, lifting his hips to meet her downward glide.
Shuddering as his cock flexed, she felt it swell inside her, filling her so deeply that it stole her breath. Panting, she began to churn her hips, taking his length in small, shallow tilts of her hips. “Love you,” she panted, taking him more deeply within her. “Fuck me, Jake,” she begged as he tangled one hand in her damp hair and latched onto the side of her neck as he surged inside her. “God, yes, fuck me!”
Grunting, Jake flipped her, taking Harmony to her back as he sta
yed buried in her snug, wet channel. Planting his elbows in the mattress, he withdrew until only the tip of his cock remained inside her before slamming inside again and pulling a low, needy sound from her lips. “Wrap your legs around me. Wrap me up tight, baby,” he ordered gruffly before covering her lips and plunging his tongue inside the wet heaven of her mouth. He fucked her deep, hammering her with long, deep lunges of her hips as she tightened her legs around his hips and her arms around his neck.
“So deep, Jake,” she mumbled between kisses, pushing the heels of her feet against his flexing ass as he drove inside her. “Love feeling you so deep,” she whimpered, lifting her hips to take everything he gave.
He felt his balls tingle as he stabbed into the heart of her, sinking deeper with every stroke. “So fuckin’ good,” he panted against her neck as he rammed her harder, the bed creaking with the force of his thrusts. Lifting one hand, he brushed his thumb against her damp lips. “Suck,” he growled, watching as her lips closed around his thumb and took it into the heat of her mouth as he continued thrusting into the wet heat of her pussy. Pulling it from her lips, he murmured, “Time to bring my baby home.” Slipping his hand between them, he found her swollen bud and circled it with his thumb. “Cum for me, darlin’,” he commanded roughly, flicking his thumb against the little nub as his hips pistoned between her legs.
Harmony saw stars as she exploded around him again. Tightening her arms around his neck, her lips parted and his mouth covered hers, muffling her scream of completion.
“Fuck, yes!” Jake grunted against her mouth a second later as he felt his seed climbing up his cock as he slammed into Harmony’s body. “That’s it, darlin’! Take my cock,” he groaned, his spine tightening as his own release hurtled into him. “God, yes!” he roared, throwing back his head as his dick exploded, his seed bursting from the tip and bathing Harmony’s pussy in blast after furious blast of his essence. He fucked her through the moment and groaned as he felt her cunt contract once again, squeezing him with an exquisite intensity he’d never felt in his life, like it was determined to milk every last drop of his seed from his body and into hers.
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