Prologue
(Just in case you forgot where we left off…)
“I’m not who-Oh, my God, stop doing that!”
“Then stop arguing with me,” he said, sliding his tongue back inside her and nearly coming on the spot when he felt her passage tighten around his tongue, desperate to keep it inside her.
“Bastard!” she gasped as he reluctantly pulled away, but not before he ran his tongue through her slit one last time.
“You are an incredibly beautiful woman, Marybeth. You’ve always been beautiful,” he whispered reverently as he slowly kissed his way up her body. “Any man would kill to have you as his wife,” he whispered against the swell of her breast as he reached down between them and released his cock.
She moaned softly as he ran his tongue over her large breast and licked her firm nipple before taking it in his mouth and gently sucking on it as he shifted between her legs. He slid his cock against her wet slit, loving the way that she wrapped her legs around his waist and tried to pull him closer.
“I was never meant to be any man’s wife,” she stated so simply on a gasp that he knew without a doubt that she truly believed that bullshit.
He released the firm nipple from his mouth and continued to kiss his way up, savoring the sweet taste of her skin against his tongue as he pulled back and slowly entered her. They moaned as she welcomed his cock, coating it with her arousal as he reached between and cupped one large breast in his hand when he finally reached his destination.
“You were always meant to be my wife,” he informed her just as he leaned down and kissed her the way that she was meant to be kissed.
“You deserve better, Darrin,” she argued even as she moaned.
“I deserve the best and that’s you,” he told her firmly as he pulled back slowly, teasing them both and making it more difficult with every passing second not to give in and fuck her hard and fast and put them both out of their misery.
She chuckled even as she tried to pull against her restraints. “Take these off, Darrin.”
Taking her bottom lip between his and gently suckling it, he reached up and placed his hand over the cuff keeping her right where he wanted her. He brushed his thumb over the small metal button where the keyhole should be and pressed. The cuff instantly opened, freeing her hand. He did the same with the other, keeping his thrusts shallow.
With her hands finally free, she pressed her hands against his chest and pushed. He rolled over onto his back, groaning when she followed after him. In seconds, he was back inside her. She pushed back, taking his cock deep inside her as she sat up.
“I don’t want to end up being the biggest mistake of your life,” she admitted on a moan.
“Are you still planning on divorcing me?” he forced himself to ask when all he wanted to do was to reach up and take her large breasts in his hands and savor the feel of her wet pussy gripping his cock.
Smiling warmly down at him as she shook her head, “No.”
“I’m not letting you go through this alone, Marybeth,” he swore. “I’m switching my ticket out and I’m coming home with you. I’m going to take some time off work and take care of you. After that we’ll take it slow, figure things out, save our money and start filling out every adoption application that we can get our hands on, but I will be there with you, Marybeth. No more games, sweetheart.”
She averted her gaze as she stopped moving. “I don’t want you to see me like that.”
“Like what?” he whispered as he reached up and cupped her beautiful face in his hands.
“Broken.”
Sitting up, he wrapped his arms around her and held her close. “You’re not broken, damaged or flawed. Do you hear me? You are absolutely fucking perfect and you’re mine.”
She chuckled and rolled her eyes in exasperation. “Only you would see a woman that couldn’t have children as perfect.”
“That’s because you are perfect,” he said, tilting his head so that he could brush his lips against hers. “Besides, who says that you can’t have children?”
“About twenty doctors including your father and brother,” she said dryly, giving him hope because for the first time since he’d found out the truth, she didn’t sound like a small piece inside of her was dying at the reminder that she couldn’t have children.
It gave him hope that one day she’d be able to look in the mirror and see the beautiful woman that he loved.
“What if I told you that there was a way to have a baby without having to worry about stretch marks and the disturbing cravings that went along with pregnancy?” he asked offhandedly as he used his hold on her to get her to start moving again.
“What are you talking about?” she asked, moaning softly as she took over by rolling her hips, riding him slowly while she waited for an answer.
“Are you going to do that thing with your hips that drives me out of my fucking mind if I tell you?”
“Maybe,” she said, smiling down at him.
“Do it first.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
“Yeah, I don’t think so. You tell me what I want to know and then maybe I’ll think about doing that thing with my hips,” she said, making him sigh heavily, because really at this point she should know better.
“Fine, then I guess that I’ll just have to double dare you to do it all while you scream your undying love for me.”
With a teasing smile, she leaned in and brushed her lips again his ear. “What if I whisper it?”
“It won’t be the same.”
“And why’s that?” she asked, moaning as she rolled her hips sensually.
“Because my parents have the room across the hall and I would really appreciate it if you could help me out by screaming my name, your undying love and if it’s not too much trouble, a few ‘Dear Gods’ wouldn’t hurt. Maybe you could…why the hell are you laughing, woman? I’m serious!” he snapped, which for some reason only made her laugh harder.
Chapter 1
“You’re too good for him,” she repeated with a hug that was probably going to kill her, but what could Marybeth do?
The woman was right after all.
Besides, wasn’t it considered rude to correct your mother-in-law? If it wasn’t, it should be, Marybeth decided with a cringe as her mother-in-law continued to show her just how much she loved her and was going to miss her while Darrin stood there, with his arms folded over his chest, glaring at them.
“Please don’t go, sweetheart,” she begged. “Just wait a few more months.”
“Mom,” Darrin said evenly, stressing all of his displeasure in that one word.
“She’s not going!” mom practically yelled as she tightened her hold around Marybeth to the point where she actually feared that she would pass out in a few more seconds. “I won’t let her go!”
“Sweetheart,” her father-in-law said gently as he placed his arms around his wife and pulled her away just as black spots began to dance along her vision, “you’re going to suffocate her and send her to the hospital if you keep squeezing her like that,” Dr. Bradford explained calmly while Darrin reached over with a bored sigh and put his arm around her when her legs threatened to drop her on her ass.
“That’s safer than where he’s planning on doing to her!” her mother-in-law cried against her husband’s chest with a heartfelt sob.
No one needed to ask her who he was since she’d been referring to Darrin like that since she found out that her son was actually going to ignore Bradford tradition and take Marybeth on a honeymoon before the one year mark was over. Since then she’d been begging Marybeth to reconsider and even slipped her a business card for a good divorce attorney, telling her that she was too young and sweet to go throu
gh something like this.
This being their honeymoon.
“Mom, she’ll be fine,” Darrin stressed with a bored sigh that earned another one of those rather frightening glares from his mother.
“You don’t know that!” his mother cried a bit hysterically as she held onto Dr. Bradford, who simply held his wife and rolled his eyes heavenward.