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“You’re not simply pretty, Braxton. That would be a goddamn insult. You’re the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. Cut that shit out right now,” he growls.
“So that I can look at you before I go to bed every fucking night, Braxton. You’re not simply pretty. You’re the most beautiful girl in the world. Never think otherwise.”
“That after everything, I still can’t find it in myself to hate you.”
“I’m so sorry,” she whispers, repeating the words I’ve waited to hear for so long. The same words I promised myself I wouldn’t accept when and if I did hear them.
Braxton Heights will be my girl one day, and when she is, there’s no way I will ever let her go. We’ll be forever.
“When I’m with a girl, she’s mine to touch. If anyone else had touched you the way he did, I would have beat him into the fucking ground.”
“Possessive? Oh, baby. You haven’t seen possessive yet.”
One look at her has me willing to fall to my knees and beg for forgiveness on behalf of every single man who has stopped her from feeling like she’s the most beautiful woman to exist.
“You are everything, Braxton. And you deserve to feel like it. There is not a single part of you that I don’t love. That I don’t want to touch and kiss and memorize. Those guys, they were boys. Small-dick, insecure pricks. They wouldn’t know a good thing if it smacked them in the face. And you? You’re the best fucking thing. Okay?”
“You’re perfect,” I breathe against her skin before inching back and wrapping my finger in one of her curls. My knuckle brushes her cheek, feeling how warm it is. “I’m proud to have you as my fake girlfriend. There is nobody better. No one.”
“I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything. You took a piece of me that day, and I’ve been searching for something, anything, to mould into the hole left behind, but it was impossible. Now
you’re here, and that hole? It’s gone. So yes, sweetheart. I missed you. And wearing the cologne you got me made me feel like I didn’t lose you entirely while you were away. I’ve worn it every single day.”
“I’m not as good with my words are you are. But I’ve kept this with me every single day. So, please don’t be embarrassed about the cologne. I missed you just as much as you missed me. If not more.”
“I want to kiss you,” he croaks, and I notice a sheen to his eyes that makes my knees shake. The corner of my mouth lifts. “Then kiss me.”
All I want is for you to feel confident with me.
“I have loved you at a hundred pounds, and I would love you at a thousand. Let me show you how much I love you right now.”
“I have never stopped loving you. Not once. I don’t think I know how.”
“We wasted so much time,” I whisper. “But we have so much time left.”
He drops his forehead to mine, rolling it side to side. “I will always choose you. Nothing else matters to me but you. Nothing.”
“Hear that, baby girl? A family,” Maddox whispers in my ear.
I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.
“I’m going to steal these photos and plaster them all over my house,” Maddox says confidently.
There’s something oh so satisfying about seeing the man you love turn feral with desire for you, and watching Maddox lose his grip on control has me on the brink of orgasm before we’ve even really started.
“Babies, a white picket fence, a tree house in the backyard, and a big diamond ring on your left hand. Everything with you isn’t nearly enough.”
“This agreement might not have fixed my career, but it fixed the most important thing to me. You’re here, baby. You’re in my arms and in my fucking life, just like you should have always been. My greatest mistake in life is letting you run from me, and I would give up my career in a heartbeat if it meant that I don’t ever have to lose you again. Fuck the VW, and fuck this Rose woman. I can’t live without you again. I won’t.”
“I’m proud of you.” The hint of a real smile. “Good.” “We’re walking out of here together, better than we were when we walked in,” I remind her. “Okay,” she breathes. I tap a finger beneath her chin and then lift it, bending to kiss her softly.
“Baby girl, I’ve loved you since the moment our eyes met, and I knew I wanted to marry you just moments later. It’s been two decades since then, and while I spent eight years without you, I don’t think you were ever fully gone.” He covers his chest with his hand, throat bobbing heavily. “You were here the entire time because I refused to let you go. “You are my soulmate, Braxton. I believe that wholeheartedly, and I know you do too. We were meant to meet that day, and we were meant to meet again. Fate brought us back together because we weren’t finished yet. Fuck, I don’t think we’ll ever be
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