Page 93 of Savage Pakhan

A small frown tilts her lips when I bring Ivan up.

“And I promise you to only bring you happiness. I promise to love and protect you, through sickness and health, good and bad, rich or poor, whatever the circumstance, your happiness is my only goal in life this life, and I promise that I will make sure you live in your happiness every single day.” I slip the wedding band onto her finger first, a band made strictly of the most expensive diamonds.

Then, the engagement ring is next, the one she deserved before today. It’s a seven-carat marquise diamond in a vintage setting, surrounding by more diamonds.

Total, she has around ten carats on her beautiful finger, and I still want to bathe her in all the best jewels. I will feed her happiness because my girl has been starved of it. She will be hungry no more.

She sniffles, placing the gold band on the tip of my finger, pausing to say her own vows.

“Inside of this band is a simple engraving that we have said to one another a few times. It says, ‘I promise’ and I do, every day. I can’t pinpoint the exact time where I knew I wanted to be with you. It was sooner than when you realized you had feelings for me. I think I’ve always loved you. You have always protected me, cared for me, worried about me, and have been at my side when no one else showed.”

She blinks a few times and I brush away the tears that manage to fall. “I was so used to that, you know? Being alone. When I’m with you, the last thing I feel is loneliness. You’ve extinguished that. Every day with you is a new beginning to my life I didn’t think I’d ever get. You save me and you keep saving me. You’re always there and I promise to always be there for you. Through sickness. Through health. Through anything and everything in between, I promise to love you. My happiness and you are linked now. I can’t have one without the other.”

Mia slips the gold band onto my finger, and this time, it’s me who wipes under my eye.

“Do you take each other as husband and wife?” Nikolai questions, still standing in the exact same stance.

“I do,” Mia and I say in unison.

“By the power vested in me by the State of Nevada and somewhere online that allowed a man like me to get ordained, I now pronounce you husband and wife. Alek, you may kiss your bride.”

“Finally.” I didn’t even have to wait that long. Nikolai made sure of that. This has to be the shortest wedding of all time.

Sliding my palm across her jaw, I keep going, cupping the back of her head. I bend her over me knee and kiss her as if I’m kissing her for the first time in our lives.

I take my time kissing my wife.

She drops her bouquet on the ground, wrapping her arms around my neck to support herself and meets my eager kiss with her own. Our lips move together in an endless soft cycle. A soft tease of our tongues glides together.

The kiss tastes even sweeter knowing she’s my wife.

Mine. Mine. Mine.

“Okay. I’m going to go gamble and leave you two alone. Unless you want to come with me?” Nikolai says just as I break the kiss from Mia.

My hands tighten on her waist as I feel her body beneath the hand that wear her ring.

“You can go,” I say, never breaking eye contact with Mia.

“Congratulations. I’ll be at the penthouse later.” Him and the violinist leave us alone in the chapel, Nikolai closing the double doors at the same time.

“How do you want to celebrate, My Love?” I kiss down her neck, her ample breasts pushing against the confines of the sweetheart neckline.

Her hand slips down my chest, down to my pants, and palms the hard length pressing against my pants.

I can’t help it. I’m excited to know she belongs to me in every single way.

“I want something.” She raises her head to nip at my bottom lip.

I growl in understanding, lifting her to her feet, then push her until her back is against the wall. Pressing my hand against her hip, I flip her onto her stomach and kiss across her shoulder while unzipping the dress that is like a second skin.

“You want me to fuck you in the chapel, Lyubimaya?” I whisper into her ear. “Right here where anyone can walk in? There are hundreds of people in this building. Many of them are walking by right now.”

“I don’t care. I can’t wait another minute.”

She surprises me every single day.

Once I unzip her dress, I tug it off her body until it’s a useless puddle by her feet. I spread her legs with my knee. My fingers slip down her spine, marveling at the beauty that I can officially call my own.