them. They’re mean when they mean well. They show affection like a schoolyard romance by hitting you. And when they love you, respect you, they rain it down on your head like it’s a snowstorm in the mountains.”
“I love you.”
Allie looked at him with a strange look on her face. Beckett didn’t know what she was thinking. Before he could ask her, however, she spoke.
“And I love you, Beck. I think I have for a while now. Even before I met you, I believe I was in love with the love you’d give me. You are the man I’ve dreamed of having in my life. Even before I knew I needed someone to love me, an image of you was right there, waiting and keeping me focused. Today when I saw your dad with your mom, all I could think about was how you were so much like him. Soft when you needed to be. You laugh when you find something funny, even when those around you are still trying to figure it out. Your wonderful patience with everyone. Not just the babies, but with your brothers and me.” She sat on his lap, facing him. “Would you take me away? Make love to me? Claim me as your mate?”
“Yes. But I won’t make love to you. I will make it with you. The two of us, we’re a couple. I won’t ever rule you. I will offer my opinion, and I know that you’d give it as much consideration as I would yours. I will love you until there is no more breath in my body, and even after death, I will have you in my heart. You are all that I ever wanted in a mate. A person to love. A partner to raise our children with. For all eternity and beyond, you are the only woman I will cherish and love like no other.” He grinned at her. “Now, if you don’t mind, my love, I want to fuck your brains out.”
Allie was laughing all the way up the stairs. He was hungry but thought he could feast on the woman he loved. Beckett, or Beck, as his family was beginning to call him, thought that he had it the best of all. Life.
Chapter 5
Every place his fingers ran over her skin, she felt like he’d marked her. Allie had had sex before, but with Beck making love to her, she thought that was all it had been. Sex. This was making love. Touching. Feeling and tasting each other. The way his skin warmed beneath her own hands. She wanted to explore all of him, taste the parts of him that called to her. Allie wanted to experience this man.
“Your skin is softer than I’ve ever touched.” She moaned when he kissed her breast just above her nipple. “I love the way your nipples tighten and swell. Almost as if they’re begging me to taste them.”
“Please. Do it.” She should have been prepared for his mouth over her breast. Allie knew on some level that he wouldn’t just taste. He suckled hard on her nipple, then took her breast entirely into his mouth. “Yes, Beck. Please. I need more.”
His pants were undone, the zipper tight against his cock. When she couldn’t get it to pull down, she bypassed the zipper and slid her hand into his pants, wrapping her hand around his thick cock. Beck moaned when she did. A course of amazing feelings sounded out in the room around them.
She realized she was naked but didn’t feel chilled. They’d yet to touch the bed, but she felt like she was on the verge of something big. Something monumental that would forever change her. Putting her arms around Beck, he kissed her with passion and hunger. Before she could guess what he would make her feel next, she was lifted up and pressed against the wall.
“I’ve thought about taking you right here since the first time I thought of you in this room.” She looked around. “You’ve been sleeping in my bed. It’s been difficult for me to sleep in another room when I knew that you were just down the hall from me and in my bed.”
His cock was at her clit. Each time he moved, she could feel the thickness of him, the veins down the sides of it. The crown was so full she wanted to taste it. Beck lifted her up, taking her breast into his mouth, and slid into her so