“I want to fuck you forever,” he grated out, and she sensed his frustration that
the peak of intimacy had passed, when he still felt so much inside. She shared in that longing. It was a kind of agony, to know she’d never be able to express fully in word or deed how much she felt for this man.
He opened his eyelids and pinned her with his stare. “I’m going to tie you up in a minute and have you again.”
“Yes,” she replied without hesitation.
Something crossed his face then, something wild and vast and beautiful. He leaned down and pressed his forehead to hers.
“I’ve waited so long to have you. I’m never going to let you go,” he grated out next to her lips.
“I’m counting on that,” she said with a smile.
He lifted his head slightly, and she saw the shiny, fiery quality of his eyes.
“I love you. Jake. Jacob. All of you,” she whispered.
His nostrils flared slightly.
“If you do, I suppose I should try harder to love all of me, too.”
“You better.”
He gave a small smile. She smiled back, but he quickly became serious again.
“Marry me,” he said.
Her grin evaporated. “Are you sure?”
“Of course I am,” he said impatiently, his brows slanted. She laughed.
“You’re laughing, at a moment like this?” he asked disbelievingly.
“I’m sorry. I’ve never been proposed to before. It took me off guard,” she tried to explain as euphoria dawned inside her, a golden, pure, sweet feeling.
“I’ve never proposed to anyone before, either.”
“Really?” she asked. He shook his head. “I’m speechless.”
“Not too speechless to give me an answer, I hope. Do you want me to tell you the right answer?” he asked drolly when she just stared up at him in awe. A smile tickled her lips at hearing the same question he’d asked her twenty years ago when she’d hesitated about stalactites and stalagmites.
“No.”
“What?” he asked sharply, frowning.
“That’s not my answer. I meant that I can answer for myself. And the answer is yes.”
His slow smile caused something to curl tight deep in her belly. God, she loved him so hard it hurt. He was such a living miracle to her.
He leaned down, kissing her softly on the mouth.
“That was definitely the right answer,” he told her, before his kiss deepened, and his heat warmed her whole world.