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“Since we’re together, I took the time to search your social media to learn more about you. This”—he points to my cocktail—“seemed to be your drink of choice and so I took the liberty to make sure we had it on board for you.”
“Nope. I’m the queen and before this is done, they’ll all bow down to me. Even you.”
“You do realize you’re the first woman I’ve ever brought into the paddock with me, right?”
Dad: Baby girl. Pressure only turns stones into diamonds. Sparkle and shine.
“That. That is all I’ve wanted to do every second of every day since I was last inside you.” He kisses me senselessly again until my body is melting against his. “For the record? I lied. I remember every goddamn minute of that night. It’s been torture wanting you. So you can say it was a mistake. You can claim you don’t want me again, but fuck that, Madds.” He gives another delectable kiss. “Because you do and I’m not believing your bullshit this time around. There will be no yachts. No dates with friends. Because I’m here and this time I’m taking what I want.”
You want to seduce me? Baby, I’m goddamn good and seduced.”
I want you at my mercy.” Have me, Madds. Fucking take me.
“Find the Cross behind the Cruz. He’s the good man. He’s the one he hides from the world. When you see him, you’ll know the man I love. The one I’m proud to call my brother. All of this”—she motions to the grandstands and the pomp and circumstance—“it’s just window dressing for the kid underneath who is scared to death no one is going to love him if he doesn’t perform and live up to ridiculous expectations.”
“Mine,” he murmurs and then presses his lips to the skin of my shoulder while my heart stumbles over that single syllable. “Just fucking mine.”
So I’m giving you this E—if you’ll have it. It stands for Everything. As in you’re my everything. That I think about. That I want. That I need. Just you. Just this. Just us. Everything else is just outside noise we can figure out.”
“Marry me, Madds. Because you want to sow your oats with me. Because you want to be my bookend. Because you want to navigate this crazy life we have together. Because you want to be the sunrise to my sunset. The finish to my start. The calm to my storm. Marry me, because I’m so madly in love with you that there is no one else I’d rather come home to. To make a home with. To make a life with.”
