Total pages in book: 22
Estimated words: 21057 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 105(@200wpm)___ 84(@250wpm)___ 70(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 21057 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 105(@200wpm)___ 84(@250wpm)___ 70(@300wpm)
I’ve fallen deeper in love with this man every moment we’ve been together. It’s even better than I imagined, because it’s real. I still have to pinch myself every now and then to remind myself that this is actually happening.
It’s New Year’s Eve tonight and the King’s luxurious mountain cottage looks perfect with the big flakes of snow falling outside and the roaring fire beside the huge Christmas tree.
The Kings always throw a big New Year’s Eve party and the house is packed with people talking, laughing, and dancing in the living room.
I’m wearing a sparkly black dress, which Marshall keeps saying he can’t wait to take off. Even now as I’m talking to his aunt, he’s eying me from across the room with a hungry look.
“Judy thought Marshall would never settle down,” she says as she touches my wrist. “We’re all so happy he found you. He looks so smitten. This is just the most wonderful holiday surprise.”
I smile as my eyes drift over to him. He does seem pretty smitten.
I still can’t believe this is actually happening.
“Three minutes until the countdown!” Judy shouts as she walks in with a box of colorful cardboard hats and plastic blowers.
People start putting them on and testing out their blowers as Marshall makes his way over to me.
“Come,” he whispers as he grabs my hand. “I know just the place to start the new year.”
I follow him out the backdoor and he takes me onto the quiet balcony where we’re all alone.
“I didn’t want to share you,” he says as he takes off his sports coat and puts it on my shoulders. I breathe in his delicious masculine scent and it sends a wave of warmth flowing through me.
The snow has stopped and the clouds have disappeared. A beautiful full moon has taken their place with all the stars out in their magnificent glory. This whole place is spectacular. So is my man.
He takes my hand and gazes down into my eyes with a loving look. It makes my toes curl in my shoes.
“I don’t want to go another year without you being mine, Colleen,” he says as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a little blue box. I gasp as he drops to a knee.
“I know it hasn’t been long, but I’ve seen all I need to see. I love you. I need you. I want you to be mine forever.”
I swallow hard as he opens the tiny box and reveals the giant diamond ring inside. “Will you make me the happiest man on the planet and marry me? Please?”
My eyes well up with tears as I look down at this amazing man that I love.
“Of course,” I say in a breathless tone. “I’d love to marry you.”
Everyone cheers inside as the clock strikes midnight.
Marshall puts the ring on my finger, jumps up, and wraps his arms around me.
I moan as he lays those perfect lips on mine.
It’s the start of something special. Not just the new year, but our new life as well.
And with Marshall by my side, it’s going to be absolutely perfect.
EPILOGUE
Marshall
* * *
Four years later…
* * *
“Baby fight!” my buddy Shawn says as he pretends our one-year-olds are karate fighting in front of the Christmas tree. His new wife Emma frowns and shakes her head at him. He laughs, but immediately lets go of my son’s leg.
Emma has been a great influence on my best friend. She’s been whipping him into shape, but it’s still going to be a long process for someone as immature as Shawn. He’s moved on from the video store and works in my company now. I made him the manager of shipping and he’s done great, besides that one snafu where he sent a container ship to Madagascar by mistake.
“The house looks wonderful,” my mother says as she walks by, admiring the new furniture.
We moved in over the summer and I made sure to get a house with a huge art studio for Colleen. I still smile when I remember the way her face lit up when she saw the big windows and all the shelving along the walls.
“We love it here,” I tell her. “It already feels like home.”
“A lot of bedrooms upstairs,” she says with a grin.
I know. That’s why I bought it. I have big plans to fill up each one with help from my sexy little fertile wife. We’ve had one so far, our son Matteo, but lately I’ve been feeling the urge to breed her supple body once again. By this time next year, we should have number two out.
I excuse myself and head through the house to find Colleen. All these thoughts of breeding her beautiful body are making me crave her badly.
We’re hosting Christmas this year and the house is packed with our family—hers and mine.