Royal Elite Epilogue (Royal Elite 7)

“You did it on purpose?”

He feigns a curtsy. “Your knight is always at your service, my queen.”

“God.” I can’t help smiling like an idiot. It must’ve taken him a lot of digging to find something remotely similar to what we used to read together.

I palm his cheek, thumb stroking his skin. “I’m so lucky to have you.”

“It’s the other way around. I’m the lucky bastard because you’re in my life, because you forgave all my fuckups and chose me. I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you, Green. After all, you staked your claim on me when you named me your knight.”

“And now, I’m Mrs Knight.”

“I love my last name on you.”

“Me, too.”

He brushes his lips against mine, and although it’s brief, my breathing hitches and I snuggle further into the hard ridges of his body. There was too much distance between us in the past and there’s no way I’ll let that repeat.

But even with the distance, we saw each other. We felt each other’s darkness and demons, and I think that’s why we’re inseparable now.

That’s why we appreciate each moment spent in each other’s embrace. We take nothing for granted, because life is meant to be lived to its fullest.

“Do you know that I love you, Green?”

I laugh. “You kind of tell me every day.”

“It’s not enough. Nothing is enough when I’m with you. Now say it.”

“What?”

“That you love me, too.”

“What if I stopped?”

“You won’t.”

“Arrogant much, Xan?”

“No, but I will fight for your love all over again if I have to.”

“As if I would ever stop loving you. My heart and my soul are yours, Xan. They always were.”

“You forgot something.”

“What?”

“Your body is also mine.”

I squeal, then break down in giggles as he lifts me in his arms and throws me on the wooden bench.

Here we go again.

14

Teal

“Ready, ma belle?”

No.