Total pages in book: 44
Estimated words: 42171 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 211(@200wpm)___ 169(@250wpm)___ 141(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 42171 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 211(@200wpm)___ 169(@250wpm)___ 141(@300wpm)
He leans his forehead on mine. “If I’d come to your bed last night, I wouldn’t have been able to let you go, Maddie. I couldn’t.”
I put my hands on each side of his face. “Good. That’s exactly what I want. Don’t let me go, Asher. Not again.”
His voice is thick with emotion. “I will never let you go, Madelyn Weston.”
I kiss his lips, and when he tries to deepen it, I pull back. “Now take me to bed and show me how much you missed me.”
In one swoop, he picks me up and carries me through the house. He takes me to my bedroom and kicks the door closed behind him. He lays me on the bed and then climbs in next to me. I look down at the two of us. “We have way too many clothes on.”
He nods. “I know, but there’s something I need to tell you.”
Oh, no. I had worried I was taking things too fast, and I don’t want him to feel like he has to say anything. “You don’t have to… I’m here with you, and that’s all that matters.”
He looks deep into my eyes. “I fought it, Maddie. I fought it hard. But I can’t let another second go by without telling you. I fell for you and I fell hard. I love you.”
I push him to his back and lie across his chest. There’s no way to stop the smile from forming on my face. “I love you, too.”
He leans up. ‘You love me?”
I shrug. “How could I not?”
His hands go to my ass, and he pulls my lower body until his manhood digs into my belly. He leans up and kisses me and then pushes me to my back. As he starts to undress me, he says, “You won’t regret this, Maddie. I’ll make sure that you never regret choosing me.”
I pull at his shirt. “I like the sound of that, but let’s have less talking and more action, Mr. Wild.”
And he does just that.
EPILOGUE
ASHER
One Year Later
“Asher, this is perfect and just how I imagined it.”
Madelyn leans back against my chest, and I wrap my arms around her. She gave me this idea a year ago, and when I asked her about it, the way her eyes lit up when she talked about it and how she envisioned it, I knew I had to do it.
It was a good decision. The big porch off the back of the house has only been complete a few days, but now every night, we sit out here, catch up on the day, and Madelyn lets me hold her. I sigh as I rest my chin on the top of her head. “You’re right, this is perfect. I couldn’t imagine anything better.”
Madelyn is quiet for a few seconds, and then she shrugs. “I don’t know. There’s a few things that could make it more perfect.”
I kiss the side of her head. “Tell me what you want and I’ll make it happen.”
She turns in my arms. “You will, won’t you?”
I cup her face in my hand. “You sound surprised. I’m doing things wrong if you don’t know that I’ll do anything for you.”
“When did you first know that you loved me, Asher?”
I don’t even hesitate. I’ve learned to just go with the flow with Madelyn. She always jumps around topics, and I just keep up because I know she’ll eventually get to what she wants to talk about. “You’re probably not going to like this.”
She sits up straighter, her curiosity piqued. “Oooh, when was it?”
“The first time we had sex.”
Her forehead creases. “Really? Asher, that was like the second day we knew each other.”
I nod. “I know.”
She shakes her head in disbelief. “How? That doesn’t even make sense.”
I laugh. “You asked me when I knew. I know the exact moment.”
She laughs. “What? Why have you never told me this? When was the ‘exact moment’?”
“I told you I wanted to take you bare, and you said you were on the pill but it wasn’t a hundred percent effective.”
She’s searching her memory, and she frowns. “Then? That’s when you knew?”
I nod. “Yeah, because it made me think about getting you pregnant, and in that moment, I wanted you pregnant. I wanted you tied to me forever.”
“Oh, Asher.”
I shrug. “I know that’s not the most romantic thing—”
She cuts me off. “I don’t know. That sounds pretty romantic to me.”
I have to know now. “How about you? When did you know?”
I lean back on the bed swing. One of the things Madelyn asked for was a bed swing. She wanted one that would be big enough to hold us both, and it took me awhile to custom build it, but I have to admit it’s perfect. She lies across my torso, her fingers running circles across my chest. “You really want to know?”