attacking her neck with my mouth.
“Fuck rule four. I say instead of picking a date, it’s every day. I’ve missed your mouth, Hendrix. Your eyes, your laugh, your hands. I’ve missed everything about you.” She gasped as I slid two fingers inside her without warning.
“Every day,” I agreed, stroking her pussy with long, slow thrusts, curling my fingers to get her right where she needed it.
“I need you,” she whimpered, grasping my waist to pull me closer.
“Not until we hammer out rule number five,” I argued and strummed my thumb across her clit.
“Shit!” Her hips bucked against my hand, chasing the high she knew I’d give her.
It took everything I had, but I removed my hand and stepped out of her embrace, backing away until I felt the other counter at my back.
“Hendrix!”
“Rule number five,” I said slowly, ignoring that my cock had its own pulse at this point. “Was that our hearts don’t get involved.”
“I remember,” she said softly.
“I want our hearts very involved. Rule number five should be that our hearts are as tangled and fused as possible, Savannah, because I don’t want a night, or a month, or a season, I want a lifetime with you.” I swallowed. “This is as honest…and as naked as I can be about it.”
She smiled, and my heart took off at a gallop.
“I know we’re not at the proposal stage. Hell, I’m just trying to get you to the openly dating stage here, but that’s where this is headed. Forever. You and me.”
“My heart is very involved,” she said, her voice breaking. “I love you. Forever sounds like a good plan to me. I’ve seen what my life looks like without you in it, Hendrix, and I don’t want any part of that misery. I want you, and us, and this. Every day.” Her eyes filled with tears.
I crossed the space between us, into her open arms, then kissed her long and deep. “I love you, Savannah,” I said against her lips.
“I want all of you,” she replied, winding her arms around my neck.
“You have all of me.” I lined up the head of my cock to her entrance, then slid home in one smooth thrust.
We both gasped.
Then she wrapped her legs around my waist, and I took her with long, sure strokes. We kissed and touched, both giving into the hunger that had brought us here in the first place. But this time was sweeter, hotter—it meant more.
It was everything.
When her thighs locked and her muscles quivered, I slid my thumb between us and stroked her clit to push her over, then fell over the cliff right with her into the hardest orgasm of my life. It nearly took my knees out, but I did what I should have done in the first place—held onto her—and stayed upright.
Our breaths were ragged as we stared into each other’s eyes, our foreheads touching, my dick already swelling for round two.
“So what now?” she asked between pants.
“Well, we have a couple choices.” My fingers bit into the soft skin of her hips. Of course, I needed her again. I never got enough of her.
“I’m listening.” She swirled her hips.
“Either you move in with me,” I offered with a kiss. “Or we need to go furniture shopping. We’ll pop that air mattress in a heartbeat.”
She laughed. “I don’t know. I mean, I already unpacked the glasses.”
“Truly a sacrifice.” I kissed her nose, her cheeks, and finally her lips.
“I choose you. Your place. Your heart. All of it.” She kissed me sweetly. “As long as I have you, I’m good with anything. You get traded, we’ll go. You want to visit South Carolina, I’ll make sure my dad doesn’t bust in on us in my bedroom.”
I laughed, my heart lighter than it had ever been. “Actually, I took the house off the market. So your dad will have to know the gate code before he busts in on us when we visit.”
“Even better.” Her smile was brilliant. “Now let’s go pop the air mattress. Just for fun.” Her eyebrows wiggled, and I shook my head at how much I loved her.
Then I took her to the bedroom.
The air mattress didn’t make it.
We did.
Epilogue
Savannah
Three Years Later
Laughter filled Hendrix’s and my home as I hurried around the kitchen, preparing snacks as quickly as I could. We had a full house today, and Hendrix was already in the backyard on the grill. I was covering the snacks and drinks. Teagan and Roman and their daughter Rosa had come