“I can feel you everywhere,” she says. “This is… it’s like my body is on fire.”
“I feel it too. I don’t… want… this… to end…” I rasp, both of us rising to meet every thrust, every roll of her hips driving me closer and closer to the finish line.
She slides her hands down to my ass, gripping me tight and driving me forward. By the tight squeeze of her body, I know she’s right there on the precipice with me as we race towards climax.
Moments later, she rips her lips from mine and buries her face in the crook of my shoulder. Her whole body tightens around me, clinging to me inside and out as her release crashes over her.
Lifting my head, I watch as the pleasure I’m giving her takes hold of her body. Her hands linking behind my neck as she throws her head back and cries out my name, her body writhing uncontrollably against mine, squeezing me tight and pulling me right over the edge after her.
“Fuck,” I say, my rhythm stuttering. With one last thrust of my hips, I plant myself deep inside of her and claim her as mine with a rough growl, slamming my mouth down on hers as we both come back down to earth.
Once we’re both sated, I flip over and move her with me so she’s draped on top with her cheek resting on my shoulder. I can’t look away from her, more addicted than ever before.
If I thought I felt attuned to her before, it’s even more amplified now. I can sense her. She’s in me, filling that last part of me that was missing. She’s locked into place now and I know I’ll move heaven and earth to make sure that never changes. Whatever it takes. Wherever she goes, I’ll follow.
“That was…”
“Yeah…” I say, staring into her hooded green eyes, sweeping my fingers back and forth over the satin silk skin of her hip and around to her back. While I do that, she rests one of her hands on my chest and mindlessly toys with the hair there.
She stills, then giggles, earning a curious look from me. “The girls are going to laugh their butts off.”
“Your best friends are goin’ to laugh at us makin’ love?”
“No!” she gasps with a startled laugh. “They joked about finding a mountain man husband and now I–” She freezes as her words sink in, her eyes jumping wide as she tries–and fails–to move away.
“Hey,” I say with a grin so big it hurts my cheeks. “You proposin’, gorgeous? Cause the answer’s yes.” I move to get up and pull her with me. “Hell, everyone’s here. We can just get Pete to perform the ceremony now. It can be the mountain’s first evertripleweddin’ day. What do you say?”
“Sutton!” She tugs on my arm and settles back in my arms, rolling her eyes as leans against my chest, propping her chin on her hands. “You’re supposed to be the calm, collected one outof the two of us. Now you’re accepting a proposal I didn’t even make!”
“We’re gettin’ married, Blair. I’m tellin’ you right now. Might not be today, or tomorrow. But my heart is yours. You own it.”
“I should play hardball right now, but I can’t,” she says, her cheeks flushing pink and her eyes shining with unshed tears as she tilts her chin and touches her lips to mine. “How about we agree that it’s in our future?”
I make a show of thinking about it before I wrap my arms around her and pull her to lay on top of me. “Nottoolong. I want to start forever with you. We’ve waited long enough.”
“You’re mine. I don’t ever want to be without you,” she whispers.
I sweep a loose strand of hair behind her ear, loving the way she leans into my touch. “That’s never goin’ to happen. It was always meant to be you. We just didn’t know it till you came crashing back into my life.”
“Blame the donkey.”
“After this, I think IoweGrumps a fruit basket for stealin’ your underwear.”
“Allthe fruit baskets,” she giggles.
We fall silent for a moment, lying there in each other's arms and enjoying the afterglow.
“Did you mean it? About going to see Starchild?” she asks after a while.
“I’ll take you anywhere, Blair. If you want to meet the woman who brought you back to me, I’m not goin’ to say no. Probably owe her a fruit basket too,” I say, my lips twitching up.
She smiles and I feel it right in the middle of my chest. “If you’re giving out gifts to everyone involved in me coming to town, you’re going to go broke.”
I lift my mouth to brush against hers. “Totally worth it.”
“I can’t believe we’re really doing this.”
“Runnin’ away from the weddin’ orthisas in you and me?” I ask.
