by Harlow Layne
“Here am I,” I whispered against his touch. “I’m not going anywhere. In fact, I’m not sure how you’ll feel about this, but…” I rolled my lips, unsure how much I should tell him. “I packed up all my things in Barcelona and gave my notice.”
“Your notice, as in your job?”
“Yeah, they weren’t too surprised. I don’t think they thought I was ever coming back after the money Colton offered to pay me for the season.” I felt bad for taking his money when I didn’t abide by the rules they’d set out and offered to return the entire amount. I was shocked when they wouldn’t accept the money back.
“So,” he drew the word out, “you don’t have a job anymore?”
“Not at the moment, since your season just ended.” I watched as he took in my words. His hands grasped me harder, and his eyes widened.
“Are you saying what I think you’re saying?”
“I’m here if you want me, even though I know you can do this without me.” I ran my fingers through the waves of his brown hair that had grown out more since I last saw him.
“I don’t want to do anything without you, Aspen. I’m sorry I waited so long to tell you this, but I love you, Aspen Belle.” My breath stopped at his words while my heart started racing like a stampede of horses. “Say something.” He swallowed visibly as if he had a rock in his throat.
Leaning forward until our lips were only a breath apart, my hand moved down to the nape of his neck and held on. “I love you, too, Cal.” With each word I spoke, our lips brushed together, but on his name, he swooped in and gave me the most perfect kiss of my lifetime. It was soft and sweet one moment, and then hard and full of promise the next. When he licked along the seam of my lips, I opened to him, wanting to taste him again. To make sure this moment was real and not a dream with me back in the suite waiting for the race to start.
“Is this real?” I asked when we broke apart to breathe.
“More than real, baby. We need to get back to the hotel now before I take you in the back of this car,” he groaned against my mouth.
For the rest of the ride back to the hotel, Cal kept me firmly on his lap as we kissed and whispered that we loved each other over and over again. I’d never heard sweeter words than those three words uttered by him in the back of the car after his championship win.
“I’m never going to let you go. Not now or ever,” he promised as he walked behind me over the threshold of the room with his hands on my hips. He hadn’t stopped touching me since we reunited at the track.
He guided me toward the bed, making us almost trip over the suitcase I’d left there earlier. Cal looked around the room for a second.
“Where’s the rest of your stuff? You had more than this when we traveled before.”
“That’s another thing I was going to tell you, but I wanted to make sure you still wanted me.”
He moved to stand in front of me and furrowed his eyebrows. In the next instant, he went down on one knee, holding my hand in his. “Aspen Belle, of course, I still want you. You’re the love of my life. The woman I can’t exist without, who I want to grow old with and to be by my side forever, will you please do me the great honor of becoming my wife?”
Overcome with joy, I fell into his arms, crying. “Are you sure about this?” I wanted to make sure because I was ready to take this leap with him, and I was only giving him this one chance to back out.
“I’ve never been more sure about anything in my life. Please grow old with me, have babies with me, and make me the happiest and luckiest man in the entire world.”
“Yes,” I cried out.
In one smooth move, he picked me up off the floor and stood before laying me out on the bed and removing my dress. “Fucking hell, you’re beautiful. I want to lick and kiss every inch of your body and then start all over again. First, I’ll start here.”
He pressed his nose into the fabric of my panties and made a dramatic show of taking a deep breath. “This right here is my home.” Hooking his fingers into the sides, he pulled them down my legs and threw them across the room.
His head disappeared between my legs, tongue licking up my center. “Heaven,” he muttered against my slick folds. My back arched up off the bed, wanting more, impatient for even a second without his mouth on me. Resting my foot on his shoulder, I opened up for him. Giving him all of me, and he took it. One hand gripped my hip, keeping me in place while the other spread my lips open as he dove in and assaulted my clit with his skilled tongue.
With each flick and swirl, my body climbed higher until I was shaking and begging him to fuck me.
“I want you to come on my tongue first, and then I promise to fuck you all night long.”
His words were music to my ears. I grabbed his hair and pulled him into me, desperate for his touch, his tongue.
When his lips clasped onto my bundle of nerves and sucked hard, I fell over the edge. Fireworks shot off into the night as fire whipped through my entire being. As I slowly came down, my body went lax as he lapped up every ounce of my release.
“Fuck, I can’t wait to eat you every day and night for breakfast and dessert.” He moved onto his knees between my legs before he picked me up and sat me on top of him. Draping my arms around his neck, I lifted up and slowly sank down onto his thick cock. I loved how big he was. How he filled my core to almost painfully full. When I was fully seated, we both let out a groan.
“Fuck me with your sweet, tight pussy,” he ordered. His hands went to my hips. I started off slow, wanting to relish the moment of us finally being together again. Wanting the first time we made love as an engaged couple to be special.
The tips of my sensitive breasts rubbed against the hair on his chest, driving me higher and higher with each movement until I couldn’t take it anymore and started to move faster. With each downstroke, I circled my hips and ground my pelvis against his, causing the most delicious effect.
“I’m close,” I muttered against his mouth.
Sweeping his tongue into my mouth, he slid one hand up to pinch my nipple, sending me into hyperdrive. I lost all coherent thought after that moment. I was lost in a space of blacks, blues, and purples as I moaned into his mouth.
When I came back into myself, Cal pulled me down with one final thrust as he released inside of me. Holding him tight, I peppered kisses all over his face until he opened his blue orbs and smiled at me.
Slowly he slid his softening cock out of me before placing me down on the bed. He then went into the bathroom and brought back a warm washcloth to help clean me up. After he threw the cloth to the side, he climbed into bed and pulled me into his arms. Our slick bodies melded as we tangled our limbs together. Never before had I felt as close to someone as I did at that moment. My forever.
“Where’s the rest of your stuff?” he asked, nuzzling into my neck.
“At your place in Malibu.”
Epilogue
Grüner See, Austria
1 Year Later
For the last hour, I’d been staring at my wife’s beautiful form while she slept. Some might have called it creepy, but it was impossible for me to take my eyes off her whenever she was in the same room as me, and our bed was no exception.
“I can feel your eyes on me,” she muttered. Her eyes were still closed, but she pressed herself more firmly against me, her supple breasts against my chest, further hardened my already semi-erect cock. When she skimmed one foot along the outside of my thigh, I couldn’t hold back any longer.
My mouth met hers as I settled over her lush body. Hands to her hips, I aligned us until my cock was at her entrance. “I couldn’t help but look at my gorgeous wife. To know that you’re mine from now until the end of time does something to me that I can’t explain.”
Her big brown eyes softened as she looked up at me with only love and adoration shining back at me. “You’ve had me all along; didn’t you know? You didn’t need a piece of paper to prove that I’m yours, caveman.”
Aspen sat up and nipped at my b
ottom lip, her arms going around my shoulders to pull me down as I slowly slid inside of her.
Her eyes fluttered shut when I was fully seated inside her. One foot settled on my ass as if to keep me there. There was no way in hell I was going to be able to stay still for much longer.
“Doc, I’ve got to—”
“Shh, just a second longer. I want to relish this feeling.” Slowly her eyes peeled open to reveal them glassy and happy. “I love you, Cal. Thank you for bringing us back here. This place will forever hold a special place in my heart.”
“Mine too,” I moaned as I drew back and then pushed back inside. “I love you, my beautiful bride.”
“I have a feeling you’re going to be peeing all over me to stake your claim when we’re out in public,” she giggled, but it quickly turned into a long, breathy moan as I continued to slide in and out of her at a lazy pace.
Dipping my head down, I laved one dusky pink nipple with my tongue before I moved onto the next. Aspen’s hips started to move faster, but I wanted this to last. To slow her down, I took both her hands in mine and pinned them above her head. My thrusts were slow and even, with a swirl once I bottomed out.
Aspen bit down on her bottom lip in the sexiest way imaginable, turning what I thought was going to be a morning of making love to my wife into me flipping her over onto her hands and knees so I could pound into her from behind. Holding her hips, I rammed my cock deep inside of her until I felt her entire body start to shake. She was close, and I couldn’t wait to feel her come all over my cock and milk me to completion.
Pulling her up until her back was to my front, I draped one arm around her chest while my other hand moved down her taut stomach until I reached her nub. I slid my fingers through our juices and moved back up. With two fingers, I circled in fast, desperate strokes to bring her over the edge.
“Oh God, Cal, fuck me harder,” she gritted out, throwing her head back against my shoulder only a moment before her walls started to quake. Her nails dug into my arm that was around her as she arched into me, moaning and shaking as she milked every ounce of pleasure from me. When she finally came down, I laid her out on the bed and kissed my way up her body.
Rolling to my back, I pulled Aspen on top of me. Her head rested over my rapidly beating heart while her fingers traced objects on my shoulder.
“What a way to wake up.” She shifted and got herself more comfortable on top of me. “I kind of wish I’d let you take advantage of me when we were here before.”
“Why’s that?”
“Because I don’t think there’s going to be a day where we can do that outside and not get frostbite.” She turned her head and laughed into my chest and then kissed it.
“Maybe not this time unless it’s in the hot tub, but next time we come, I’ll make sure we have prime weather so I can find a secret spot to fuck you out in the wilderness.”
“I’m going to hold you to that.” She tilted her head and smiled sleepily at me. I had kept her up most of the night with my dick in one of her holes, but I couldn’t help the animalistic side of me that wanted to claim her as mine. Maybe I’d let her get in a nap while I wrangled us up some sustenance.
“We can always come during the season. Maybe this is where I should retire.” I hummed as the idea took hold in my gut.
“I don’t see that happening anytime soon.” Her long fingers found my hair and started to comb through the strands.
“Why do you say that?” I asked with a yawn.
“I think you’d get bored quickly if you’re not on the move. I’m not sure I’d want to live here all the time, but I’ll happily come back here anytime you want.” She looked up at me with her chin on my chest. “Maybe a vacation home?”
“Possibly. Let’s travel the rest of the world before we settle on one place.” Running my hand down her back, I brushed my fingers along the crack of her ass. “We also need to think about the best place to raise a child.”
Turning her head, Aspen looked out the window to the snow-covered hill and the crystal-clear water. “Green Lake is a pretty great place, but you’re right.” She moved back to placing her chin on my chest to gaze up at me. “I thought we were waiting until you retired to think about kids. Traveling around the world from March to December wouldn’t be easy with a baby in tow, nor would it be fair for a child to not have roots.”
“I know, Doc, but know this—in five years’ time, I plan to have my baby growing in you.” I couldn’t wait to see Aspen round with my child. Just the thought had my dick twitching.
“Do you think you’ll be ready to give up driving so soon? I feel like you’ll be an old geezer behind the wheel, still kicking everyone’s ass out there.”
“More than ready.”
Before, she probably would have been right. I would have raced until I died or until I no longer had anyone willing to hire me. But now racing wasn’t what I lived for. I still loved to race, but I also lived to explore new places with her in each country we visited, to wake up with her warm body next to mine each and every morning, and to sink my dick into her tight heat every night before we fell asleep wrapped in each other. She made me realize my weaknesses didn’t make me weak. They ended up making me and our relationship stronger. Aspen woke up a part of me I never knew existed. She made me feel what true companionship was after years of thinking I could only be on my own. And when my mind didn’t believe in me any longer, she never stopped believing in me or being my champion. Aspen was always there for me, even if it was from half a world away when we had to be apart. Even now, when I occasionally started to feel an attack, which were few and far between, she helped me and reminded me how to heal myself.
Aspen Belle was no longer just my therapist. She was my everything.
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Acknowledgments
My family- your support means so much.
Thank you for all of your encouragement and giving me the time to do what makes me happy.
To my girls: Kelsey Cheyenne, Carmel Rhodes, Erica Marselas, QB Tyler, Rose Croft, I love each and every one of you. Thank you for all of your support.
Wendy: I don’t know what I’d do without you. Thank you for EVERYTHING you do!
Thank you Kristen and Bex for making my story into a book.
To all my author friends, you know who you are. Thank you for accepting me and making me feel welcome in this amazing community.
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About Harlow
Indie Author. Romance Writer. Reader. Mom. Wife. Dog Lover. Addicted to all things Happily Ever After and Amazon.
Harlow Layne is known for her contemporary romance style of beautiful slow-burn, sweet, sexy and swoon-worthy alphas, and fast pace, super-steamy romance in her Love is Blind series.