“Do it…”
“What?” he looks a bit shocked.
“Do it. I want you to…”
In one motion, he thrusts his hips, slamming fully inside me in one go. A moan from the depths of my soul comes out as he begins to fuck me. It’s deep and feels so fucking good.
He thrusts harder, pressing his body down onto mine as he does. The bed shifts, rocking each time he pulls out, then slamming into the wall with each thrust back inside. One hand cradles my head, the other holds my hip pinning me in place as his pace increases.
This is the start of something new. We have the rest of our lives for sweet, gentle lovemaking. But right now, we both need this. It’s raw, primal, and fucking erotic. We’re both chasing what we need. The release we both need to let go of everything that happened five weeks ago.
My body trembles, shattering as my orgasm washes over me. Every nerve in my body lights up as I scream his name. I can feel the muscles in his body tensing. His hips thrust faster. My name falls from his lips as he groans. He presses his forehead against mine holding me in place as he comes inside me.
His eyes are still closed as his head is pressed against mine. Our breaths have finally leveled off to a steady pace, but our hearts are still beating wildly. I canfeel his pulse below the pulse point in his neck that I keep tracing with my fingertips.
“I love you, Myles.” I kiss his forehead as my fingers trail through his shaggy, dark hair. Those eyes open, the sunset catching on those copper orbs staring at me.
“I love you, too, Sunshine.”
CHAPTER 40
Epilogue
Myles
“Is that everything, Sunshine?” I call up the attic ladder to her. It’s been six months since we came home from the hospital. Six months since she moved into our home. Now we’re back at the San Antonio house taking care of one last thing.
“One more! This one’s heavy.” She heaves the box over the lip, and I step up to take it from her.
“Fuck. What the hell is in this?” I grunt as I take the box and set it on the ground.
She climbs slowly down the ladder, and I can’t help the way my eyes trace over every perfect curve of her body. I kneel to open the box, and I can’t help but laugh.
“What is it?” she asks as she kneels next to me.
“It’s our time capsule. We were supposed to bury it out back, but your grandmother beat both of our asses when we dug into her garden.”
I lift the metal box out of the cardboard box. I can’tbelieve it’s still up there. I run my thumb over the lock. She sees and starts looking through the remaining contents at the bottom of the cardboard box for a key. She huffs when she can’t find it.
“I’m sorry. It’s not in here.”
“I know. It’s on the keyring I gave you.”
Her eyes go wide as she quickly stands to grab the keyring off the dining room table. She sprints back up the steps and tosses me the keys. The worn, black painted key with A.W. and M.L. scratched into the paint. I put the key into the lock and hold my breath. Opening this is hard.
We were supposed to open it together. It was supposed to be our time capsule. The thing we swore we would open when we were fifty. We always joked that when we were old and gray, we had to look back on the stuff that would make us feel young again…Fuck. I miss him.
The lock clicks open as I turn the key. I can feel Mina’s anxious energy next to me matching my own. When I lift the lid, the first thing I see is a photo of Adam, me, and Miss Diana.
“Hey. Isn’t that the lady who owns the bakery downtown?”
“Yep.”
“Are you related to her?” she asks. A small chuckle leaves my lips.
“Not by blood. But that woman has saved me more times than I can count. I went and saw her the first night I met you…After you kicked me out of Badlands.”
“Oh…” It wasn’t that long ago, but it feels like it’s been a lifetime since then.
