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February 10 - February 12, 2025
“My last name. My ranch. My pretty mouth to fuck.”
“Eyes on me while my cock is in your mouth, Lennon. You don’t focus on anything but me.”
Hope that cowboy used you good. I’m sure he’ll find another piece of ass soon enough.”
The click of a recoiling pistol jolted me from the paralysis of fear. “What did I tell you about disrespecting the women on this ranch?”
There was a fucking knife in Lennon’s chest, and I couldn’t do a damn thing but sit there and hold her, biting back tears.
“For right now, I think she’s ready to see you. She never stopped talking about her fiancé while she hung out in the PACU.”
“What do you need?” I asked as I pulled a chair up to her bedside and wrapped her hand in mine. “Say it and it’s yours.” “Marry me?” she mumbled as her head lulled to the side again. I leaned over and pressed a kiss to her forehead. “I’m planning on it.” “Mmmkay,” she said in a labored breath. “’Cause I think I love you.”
“Trust me?”
“With my life.”
My brother had been murdered. I had been stabbed in the chest by one of my cooks. My boyfriend had killed him.
“We’ve just been waiting for you, dear.” “I like your family,” I hedged. “I don’t think I’ve ever been happier,” she said.
“I like having a full house. I like getting to know the women my boys have fallen in love with.”
“I’ll plant you a million wildflowers, so you never open your eyes without seeing your beauty reflected back to you. I’ll build
you that house with a glass roof, so the stars are never far. I’ll gladly give you my last name because I want you to be a part of this legacy. But I’d also take yours because you are the most important person in my life. I’d give it all to you, and I’d give it all up for you.”
CJ didn’t know it—or maybe he did—but he had given me so much more than a ring. He had given me a place to belong. A place to live and grow. People to love and be loved by.
“You pushed me out of the way at the bar and said, ‘Do you wanna be next, cowboy?’” He slid the ring onto my left hand. “Len, I’m not the next one. I’m the last one. You and me? I know a good thing when I’ve got it. This is a forever kind of love. And, if you’ll have me, I’d like to be your husband.” “Yes,”
Two of the best epiphanies I could have conjured hit me all at once. I could breathe. I was his. For a while, those were two things I thought would never be true.
“I’ve been waiting for you my whole life.”
“I love you,” I whispered as soon as I caught my breath. “So much. Thank you for loving me. I know I don’t deserve it.” Tears streamed down my cheeks. “Good things don’t happen to people like me, but my God, I am so glad I got you.”
“You deserve every good thing this life has to offer. Bad things happen to good people, but the difference is that good people will have goodness ahead. You, Lennon Maddox, are good. And you’re mine.”
