Her eyes fluttered gently but stayed firmly half-closed as he gently crawled off her. He kissed her on her forehead all the way down to the tip of her nose. She giggled at the light kisses and groaned as she curled into him, a tiny thing against his massive frame. He wrapped a protective arm around her.
“I want to stay like this forever,” she whispered. He stroked her hair as he closed his eyes, the last few months flashing through his life like a reel of movie snapshots.
“Then let’s do it forever.”
She lifted her head to look at him. “Are you serious?”
“I’m always serious,” he told her and moved a lock of hair out of her face. “I love how you love Angelle. I love how you…well. I love how I hope you will love me.”
She blushed and pressed her face into his chest. he heard her muffled voice, “I do love you.”
“Even better,” he whispered in her ears. Her fingers crawled up his side.
“But, I’d like a round-two before I say it out loud.”
He laughed. He could work with his firecracker on that. Their lips found one another again in the dim light. Their night was long and filled with moans just for them.
Epilogue: Claire
“I bet you never imagined this when I came to your door,” Raul encircled his arms around Claire’s waist, burying his face into her hair. She giggled against him. They were on the back patio of the Goodwin house, looking at a giant sheet of paper that had a list of various things. Festivities were being planned.
Ana and Leonardo were returning finally. Claire and Raul were planning their upcoming ceremony to celebrate their mating and civil union. They’d opted against a wedding, for now, not wanting to steal Ana and Leonardo’s scandalous thunder.
She smiled. “Sometimes, surprises are nice.” She leaned back to kiss him, to feel those lips on her own. “I love you.”
“I love you too.”
He, she, and Angelle would live together. She would split her time between her house and the new house that he was building on his clan’s territory.
They would be a family.
FIN
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