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“You like it?”
“Are you kidding? I love it. This was all perfect.” I turn to him and kiss him. I can’t believe this all happened so fast, but we didn’t need months or years to plan one night, it all turned out perfectly.
“You’re perfect, Perrie. I love you so much.” He kisses me, small chaste kisses over and over until he seals his lips to mine and coaxes them together.
I melt against his warmth and security that fills me from the inside out. He breaks the kiss to turn me around, then I feel his fingertips at my zipper, sliding it open. His warm palms splay against my back and explore my body as he drags my dress down and it falls to the floor. My body heats up, my skin prickling, I want him so bad it overtakes me.
“I want to worship every inch of your body like it’s the first time.” His deep voice rasps into my ear. I shiver and moan with approval.
He lays me onto the bed and I strip his clothes away, glide my hands over his warm skin and his muscles. I kiss him over and over and reach new limits with him each time. When he touches me I come alive, his fingers dusting over my clit and then reaching inside me. He knows my body so well, too well, and soon I am falling over the edge.
“Thom, oh god—” I slide my fingers in his hair and latch my legs around him. His hard cock rubs against me and I open up for him, sighing with delight as he sinks inside of me.
He hovers over my body, looking to my eyes as we move together. I quiver inside for him, beg him with my body not to stop. He kisses me and I taste him happily, disappearing in his aura.
“I love you Perrie, so fucking much.” His lips hover over mine.
“I love you too. I love you Thom.” I kiss him as I climax, my body molding to his as he comes soon after, filling me up.
I kiss and kiss him like the world could end at any moment. But our little world could live on forever. We catch our breath, have some champagne, and then do it all over again. It’s not surprise we almost miss our flight, too.
Returning to our old lives feels so different, yet all the same. The apartment that we have shared for years feels lighter, more open, like all that was missing was the final commitment we could make to each other. And it’s not that everyone should get married or it’s some sort of requirement, but for someone like me who ran from commitment any time I could, marrying Thom showed just how much I love him, how much his love changes me.
“We should start making babies.” Thom catches me off guard in the bedroom as I unpack. It’s late, I am half asleep, but that wakes me right up.
“It’s not that easy.” I laugh.
He grins and climbs over the bed to me. “Maybe not.”
I smile and tuck his hair behind his ear, “I’m old you know.”
“Modern science is good at that.”
“Hm, that’s true. How many?” I hug my arms around his neck.
“Two, we’ll be an even bunch.” He grins. I smile at him and agree, two is perfect, if we’re lucky a boy and a girl, but either way I’ll be happy. As long as they are half Thom and half me, I’ll be a lucky woman.
“Sounds good to me.”
I kiss him deeply and trying to unpack turns to another bout of just married sex, which is incredible, better than before somehow.
I return to work with my wedding ring and a new personality, no one sees me until I head to the cafeteria. Thom pages me, just coming out of a surgery, and meets me at the table. His friends are in the corner table, cheering when he walks in, and my bubble of silence is over. Everyone congratulates me for the rest of the day. When I leave with Thom and everyone looks at us like we are the golden couple, I don’t even feel on display. Since I am with Thom, I get to share everything with him.
For the rest of my life, I will share everything with Thom. He has been there for me, waited for me, ever since we first met. He knew before me that I was worthy of this kind of perfection, this happiness that seems to run on everlasting battery power. Love that rejuvenates and fits in all the small places.
And I will love him forever.
Always.
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Bri Stone is happy to be a contemporary romance fiction writer; creating anyone and anything in the world of soul touching, true romance.
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