But he’s kind. He’s good. He’s faithful. He’s brave.
He’s utterly mine, and I can’t even fathom being anybody else’s again.
Best of all, tonight he’s totally with me.
I slide my thighs against his hips and spread my legs. I open, giving myself to him, surrendering to the wildfire building between us, to this wild animal on top of me, the only man I’ve ever met who’s as relentless at life as I am.
And it’s more than perfection as he jerks my hips up, as he grasps on tight with a heady, growly possessiveness.
As he fits himself to me.
As he whispers “Libby” with all the love and passion in the world.
As he drives into me so deep, so hot, that I can’t help screaming his name to the rafters, the moon, the stars.
There’s no mercy in this man.
Not when his body surges over me, in me, rampaging through my helpless insides with heat and pleasure. His cock’s friction moves faster in deep, claiming strokes, a low frenzy on his lips.
God, it’s savage—as savage as the story of our love, and it has the perfect ending.
If I could stay like this forever, twined with Holt, locked in this passion, I don’t think heaven itself could ever hold a candle to this.
And if I have my way…
I will.
This is us. This is everything I’ve needed.
Not just insane pleasure, but someone who can go head to head with me without backing down. Someone I can trust to have my back, through thick and thin.
Someone who can weather the storm.
I’m not standing on my own anymore.
I’m not carrying everything by myself.
For the first time in my life, I have a man I can lean on.
A hero who’s been there for me, no matter what.
“Holt,” I whisper, pressing my lips to his jaw, his throat, then his mouth, breathing in his scent, rising up to meet him, gasping as he lifts me and holds me like I’m something precious, even as he fucks me like a beast. “Holt…Holt, I love you.”
He stops—our bodies locked so tight together, those dark bearish eyes nearly scouring.
His mouth traces over mine, taking my lower lip gently, like he can taste those words on my lips.
“Really, Mrs. Silverton?” he breathes, and I shiver to hear it said out loud for the very first time. “Then it’s a damn good thing I’ve loved you since the moment I set eyes on you.”
I can’t speak.
It’s too overwhelming.
Too much.
He’s too much and somehow always just enough.
And you’d better believe he’s more than I ever wanted when he pins me down, picks up where he left off, and thrusts me right over the cliff into a screaming, shuddering tsunami.
Before my senses give out, before he growls his heart out, I hold fast to Holt, to our love, to this shared explosion as we crash together, driving into the sweetest ecstasy I’ve ever known. Judging by the roar in his throat, I think it might be his best ever, too.
My world’s officially upside down.
Tonight and forever.
Not just my body, as I spasm and pant and surrender to my husband.
Thanks to this unshakable man, the void’s been filled forever with light and laughter and so many kisses.
With Holt by my side, my dark knight, there’ll always be stars, and this life of ours will never be empty again.
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