Climb (Club Kitten Dancers 3)

“Serenity,” I murmur as I fill her with my seed.

“That’s it, baby. Give it all to me.”

“Everything,” I whisper. “Forever.”

Then I kiss her, and I hold her, and I wrap her in my arms. Part of me can’t believe I just fucked my very best friend in the whole world, and all of me wonders why I didn’t do it sooner.

“I love you, Serenity.”

“I love you, Elliott.”

There’s nothing else to say, so I just hold her.

I could hold her forever.

Epilogue

Sassy

3 Months Later

“Spin, and dip, and spin, and climb.”

The girls in my class move in unison. They move in time with the music, in time with each other. They’ve completely given themselves over to the song. They’ve completely given themselves over to the dance.

That’s just the way I like it.

Class ends, and after everyone filters out, I clean the room, but I do it with a smile on my face. I do it with a grin because it’s the end of the day and that means Elliott is about to come home.

He’s about to come back to me.

It’s only been three months since he confessed his undying love for me. It’s only been three months since we agreed to love each other, since we promised to be one. It’s only been three months and somehow, it feels like it’s been forever.

When I’m done cleaning the poles, I head back to my office and open the little black box that sits on my desk. I pull the ring out and place it back on my finger. Then I just grin.

It’s a goofy, silly grin, but that’s all right with me. I can’t wear my engagement ring while I dance because it will tear up the pole, but part of me can’t believe I actually have one to wear.

An engagement ring.

Me.

I’m engaged.

It’s hard to believe, honestly. It’s hard to believe that Elliott came back from his deployment and now we’re engaged to be married, but it’s happening.

It’s happening for us.

We were friends forever and now we’re so much more. We were friends forever and now we’re going to be in love forever.

I’m not under any impression that the journey is going to be easy. It won’t be. We’ll fight and bicker and have problems, but we’ve got such a strong friendship that I know it’ll be okay.

I know everything will be fine.

I know that when the going gets tough, we’ll talk to each other. We’ll communicate. We’ll explore the problem and we’ll find a solution together we can both handle.

That’s what couples in love do.