“We’re not going anywhere.” He leads me past the front security desk over to a side door where I can see inside an empty store. “We own the building,” he reminds me.
“Trust me. Owning a building is not something I’ll forget,” I laugh.
I’ve gone from living check to check to not having to think about money. It’s all still new to me and I hadn’t really wrapped my mind around a lot of it until this move, and there’s a bunch of paperwork to be signed. Seeing my name all over everything next to Reed’s is shocking because it’s not as though we have a prenup. We don’t need one. This is forever.
He pulls out a key and unlocks the door. “It’s for you.” He opens the door wide and I step inside “If you want it.” It looks like it used to be a deli. “A little bit of work and it could be a bakery. Hell, it can be anything you want it to be. If you want.”
“If?” I ask, looking around the store.
“It’s up to you, wife.” Again he wraps his arms around me.
“A bakery,” I say. He really does want me to have all my dreams come true. “It might be a lot to take on.” I bite my lip and he turns me in his arms.
“You can do it or not do it. You can be really hands-on or hire people that can do it all. Either way, it’s here. Whatever you want to do, it’s yours.” My eyes sting with tears. “No tears.”
I close my eyes, trying to stop them, and he kisses both of them.
“It’s the pregnancy and you’re being extra sweet.” I slowly open my eyes to stare up at Reed—the man who has changed my world. I don’t know what I ever did to get him, but there’s no way I’m ever letting him go.
“I just want you to have it all.”
“I do have it all, Reed. We have it all. Together.”
Epilogue
Reed
Ten years later…
“Did I ever tell you about the first time I saw you?” I trace my finger across her stomach as the sunshine warms her skin.
We’re at the lake house this weekend and she’s in a tiny bikini I wouldn’t let her wear when the whole family is here. It’s just the two of us on the dock since Erin and Devin are watching the kids.
“You mean in the bakery before you bought the place?” She smirks as she raises her sunglasses. “No, you never told me, but I knew you were there.” She lowers them and I sit up to look down at her.
“Wait, you knew about that?” I’m shocked she’s never brought it up.
“Reed, there’s never been a moment when I didn’t feel your eyes on me. Including that first time.” She reaches out and places her hand on my bare chest. “I played it cool because I knew how much I already had on my plate, but damn, it was hard.” Her hand slides down my stomach to between my legs. “Some things never change.”
I move on top of her and pin her to the beach towel we have spread out on the dock. It’s broad daylight and we’re out in the open, but we own all the land around here, including the lake.
“Why didn’t you ever say anything?” I move between her legs and rub my hard cock against her bikini-covered pussy.
She pushes her sunglasses off and then reaches up to cup my face. “Because I knew that moment was special for the both of us. And maybe having our own little secret about it was fun for a while.”
“Ten years.” I lean down and kiss her softly as her legs wrap around me. “Ten years you kept that in your back pocket.”
“You bought the place right after and I had an idea that I may have been the reason why.” Her nails score down my back and I purr like a tiger.
“You’re always the reason why.”
Now it’s her turn to purr as I reach between us and push my swim trunks down. My cock springs free and nudges the edge of her bikini, begging for access. Her knees fall open and I untie the bows at her hips so the material keeping her from me falls away.
In one long thrust I’m deep inside of her and we both groan at the connection. She’s wet and warm and my cock slides easily through her sticky sweet honey. She squeezes me and I groan as I rest my forehead on hers and keep thrusting.
“You’re mine,” I growl, pinning her hands above her head, and she moans. “Since the moment I saw you.”
“Yours,” she agrees. I yank her bikini top to the side and latch on to her tight nipple.
The little bud is hard in my mouth and I grunt as I go deeper and deeper inside her. Fuck, I can’t hold off much longer but she already knows I’m there.