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“I love learning new things about you.”
“You make a family of your own.”
“I think this is a gift you’ll want to remember opening,”
“Fucking Christ, Julep,”
“You’re a naughty fucking girl,”
think I need to be punished.”
“It’s not punishment if you like
“Quiet, baby,”
“Those moans are for me only.”
“You look so fucking beautiful,”
“So fucking perfect.”
pelvis. “I want to see you release. I want you to fuck me hard until you paint me with your cum.”
“Fucking hell, woman,”
She straddled me, reaching behind her and dragging a fingertip through my cum before sucking it right off her finger.
“That gift is for your eyes only,”
“Are you kidding? I’d fucking murder someone before I’d let them see my girl like that.”
“So possessive,”
“Admit it, you love that I am. You love that you’re mine.”
He was still smiling at something when his eyes drifted to mine, and he winked, making me blush before I tucked my hair behind my ear and casually looked toward the television and then back to the girls.
I stood against the wall, watching Holden as he high-fived and hugged the entire team.
“You were the last thing I expected this season.”
“Sorry to disrupt your plans.”
“Feel free to disrupt the rest ...
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And on a freezing cold day in early December, on a little bench in a garden his hands built, Holden Moore claimed me in every way there was to be claimed. I melted into him, surrendering, letting the unfamiliar, all-encompassing joy wash over me and take me under.
“Come here,”
“Don’t say that,”
don’t care.”
“You’re not ruining it. You’re making it better.”
“You’re not just some girl and you fucking know it.”
“I’m still that guy,”
“I am. I want the win. I want all of it. But I don’t want to lose you in the process.”
will give you anything you need, Julep. Even this. But only on one condition. You have to promise me we will talk after you’ve taken some time, some space. You have to promise me that this isn’t the end.”
“I am not walking away from you,”
“Do you understand me? I am not walking away.”
“You promise?”
Good morning. I’m still here. I hope you breathe a little easier today. Don’t give up on us. You looked beautiful yesterday. It will all be okay, Julep. Trust me.
Merry Christmas, gorgeous. I miss you.
“Good morning. I’m still here, too. Every breath burns without you,”
“I haven’t given up on us. You’re crazy if you think I’ve looked anything close to beautiful in this mess of a state I’ve been in. I do trust you.”
“Merry Christmas.”
“This is your win,”
“Go fucking get ’em, Cap.”
“Sir, with all due respect,”
“Bench me.”
“You can take everything else away from me. But you can’t take her.”
“I love your daughter, Coach Lee,”
“I love her, and I don’t care what you or anyone else thinks about it. My heart used to belong to football, but now it belongs to her. And none of this,” I added, throwing my hands up. “None of it means a damn thing without her.”
“You love me?”
“With every hopelessly optimistic beat of my heart.”
will be here,”

