“Aren’t you gonna ask why I brought you all the way out here for this?” he asked, a little breathless as he slowed to a stop and let my body slide down his until my feet touched the ground.
“It is an odd location for a grand romantic gesture,” I said, eyeing him suspiciously.
He grinned. “Well, right now you’re standing where you almost ran me over?—”
I poked at his side. Jesus, I was never gonna live that down.
“Hang on, let me explain,” he said around a laugh and then inhaled a settling breath. “I was broken down, in more ways than one. And you lost your freedom when all you were trying to do is find Heaven.”
My expression softened as my fingers played with the short hairs tickling his neck.
He shrugged. “This is where two messed-up hearts collided, and now…” His arms tightened around me. “It's where two mended hearts get to stand whole.”
Tears pricked at my eyes again as I smiled at him with so much love in my mended heart—all because of him.
“Am I going to mess up this whole thing if I tell you how glad I am that you never found Heaven?”
A soft laugh trickled out of me along with more tears. “But I did find Heaven.” I moved one of my hands from the back of his neck and down his shirt to rest over his chest. “I found it right here—” I pressed my hand over his heartbeat, “—with you.”
Epilogue
Zane
I reached downand hooked my arm under Andi’s knee, bringing it up and over my shoulder as I thrust into her over and over again.
“Oh, shit…that’s?—”
“So fucking good,” I supplied, pushing deeper into her sweet heat as my mouth sought out hers before latching onto her neck. “Gimme one more, princess.”
A laughing gasp fell from her lips as her nails dug into my back. “I can’t, Zane.” Pant. “I’m…” Pant. “I’m wrung out.”
“Don’t let me go alone,” I said, groaning against her skin as I pressed a wet kiss to the inner part of her knee hanging over my shoulder. A bead of sweat chased down my back as I brought my other hand between us and pressed my thumb to her clit. Her body rolled into it as her hands flew to the headboard, gripping the spindles as her back bowed off the bed. “There you go, princess. Just like that. Take it. Take what you need.”
The headboard banged and banged and banged against the wall with every thrust of my hips into hers, and when I felt her thighs start to tremble I pushed deeper and swirled my thumb faster.
“You gonna gimme one more?”
She nodded frantically, trapping her bottom lip between her teeth as her chest rose and fell with each dramatic intake of breath.
“Words, princess,” I said, and nipped my teeth against the sensitive flesh on her inner thigh.
“Ah!Yes. Yes, Zane. Oh my God… Yes.Yes!”
The moment her body spasmed around my cock I went right with her, holding her tightly to me as I spilled myself inside her. A tremor rocked throughout my entire body as I gasped for air and let her leg drop from my shoulder before leaning down to kiss her. “I love you,” I said, nuzzling her neck as her arms wound around me and teased my hair.
“I love you, too,” she said, just as breathless. “I think we’ve successfully broken in my bed now.”
I grinned around a chuckle and slipped out of her, falling onto the bed beside her and looping an arm around her waist to draw her close. “You gonna write about that accomplishment in your journal?”
Her head fell back deeper into the pillow as she laughed at the ceiling. “It’s eating you up wondering if you’re in my journal or not.”
“Can you blame me?” I said and pressed a kiss to her shoulder. “You’ve got a whole book dedicated to your private thoughts, and I’m just over here selfishly wishing and hoping to be one or ten of them.” I held my hand up in the air and pretended to scribble. “Dear Diary, Zane really rocked my world tonight.”
She let out another laugh, this one softer.
“Ease my curiosity, please,” I murmured, and shot her a playful frown when she turned to look at me.
“Well, I can tell you for certain that I have never written the words ‘Zane really rocked my world tonight’,” she said, and laughed when I said, “Oof.”
