Your heart. Your soul. Your body. Your mind. I want you to be mine, and I want to be yours. And I want that forever. Tell me that’s what you want, too.”
Tears started to trickled down her temples as she nodded. “I do. So damn much.”
I let out an enormous breath that I hadn’t even realized I’d been holding. “Thank fuck! I guarantee that I’m going to screw up in the future, and the way I feel about you is pretty extreme, but I’ll always do anything in my power to make you happy, Taylor.”
She yanked to get her wrists free, and I let her go.
When she wrapped her arms around my neck, and gave me a blistering kiss, anything that had been wrong before was now absolutely perfect.
Taylor
I finally let go of the death grip I had going on with my arms around Hudson’s neck, and ended the frenzied kiss.
For several heartbeats, our eyes locked before I said, “Mac once told me that when I found the right guy, I’d feel it with my entire soul, and I’d see the way I was feeling reflected back to me in his eyes.”
His gray gaze turned intense. “And do you see it?”
I nodded. “Yes. I saw it that night in the shower with you, too. I should have had more faith—”
He put a finger to my lips. “Don’t, Taylor,” he said harshly. “I’ve screwed up, too. This is new for both of us. There’s going to be a learning curve. We just need to keep talking to each other.”
I wrapped my legs around his waist. “There’s something else I’d rather be doing right now. I need you, Hudson.”
Now that I knew that he loved me, I wanted him so badly that my entire body ached for him.
The heat that flashed in his eyes was white-hot and hungry.
He sat me up, and yanked the tank over my head. “I’m not sure why you bothered to get dressed. It’s always going to end this way for us,” he rumbled. “No matter what disagreement we had earlier.”
I hadn’t bothered with panties so I lifted my hips and let Hudson slide the thin shorts down my legs.
Honestly, we didn’t argue very often, but when we did in the future, I hoped it always ended like this.
He shucked his boxer briefs, and I opened my legs wider, hoping he’d come down on top of me.
I wanted his body flush with mine, his weight on top of me.
I sighed when he lowered himself over me.
I savored the feel of his soft skin over hard muscles, smoothing my hands over his back and his shoulders. “You feel so good,” I murmured, getting lost in his masculine scent. “Fuck me, Hudson. I can’t wait any longer.”
He moved to roll me over on top of him. “No!” I insisted, holding onto him. “Just like this. Please.”
For some reason, he never wanted to be on top of me. I had a feeling he thought it might make me uncomfortable because I’d been assaulted, but right now, I needed him to take me just like this.
He stared down at me. “Are you sure?”
I nodded. “I’m not afraid of your strength, Hudson. I wallow in it because I know damn well you’d never hurt me.”
“I love you, Taylor,” he said with a groan as he buried his face in my neck.
I tilted my head, giving him access to whatever he wanted as he licked and nipped at my skin.
I squirmed, wrapped my legs around his waist, and ground up against him. “I love you, too, Hudson. Now fuck me before I lose my mind.”
He slipped one of his hands between our bodies, and grasped his cock. He teased my clit with the head. “Is this what you want?” he asked in a wicked, low tone.
“No teasing,” I whimpered. “I want you inside me now.”
“Fuck! You’re so wet, sweetheart,” he hissed.
I threaded my hands into his hair, relishing the feel of the coarse strands between my fingers. “Because you make me that way,” I whispered in his ear, and then nipped his earlobe.
“Dammit! I can’t wait any longer, either,” he rasped, and then surged into me with one powerful movement of his hips.
“Oh, God, yes!” I gasped.
He pulled back and thrust in again. “Mine. You’re fucking mine, Taylor. Say it,” he demanded coarsely.
“I’m yours, Hudson. I always will be.”
I was never going to hesitate to tell him that. I knew he needed to hear those words whenever he needed reassurance, and I’d happily give