Lace (Just This Once 4)

“I’m hard as nails right now.” His tongue flicks the center of my panties. “I’m going to rip these right off of you.”

“I like them,” I whine.

“I love what’s inside of them.” With that, he pushes the triangle of lace aside and devours me.

Epilogue

6 Months Later

Alexander

Life is a series of choices.

They lead us to our tomorrows.

I made what I thought was a foolish choice to spend a night with a woman I met in a bar.

That choice led me to a lingerie store and the woman of my dreams.

I’m staring at her now as she walks toward me with her mother by her side.

I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than my Olivia in her wedding dress.

It’s simple, yet elegant, just as the love of my life is.

It fits her like a glove, even with the extra small bump in her middle.

No one knows yet that we’re going to have a child in the winter. A child we planned for and hoped for. We wanted to save that news for our reception when everyone, but Olivia, Alvin and Skylar, has a glass of champagne in their hands.

“Hi,” she whispers as she nears me.

“Hi,” I mouth back before turning to her mother.

I kiss her on the cheek because she raised the woman who changed my life. “Thank you for everything.”

She smiles the same soft smile as her daughter before she moves to sit next to her sister in the front row.

W

e didn’t opt for a church or a ballroom.

We are marrying in our theatre, on the stage where so many of our dreams have come true.

Jack is standing next to me. Kate is beside Olivia.

Alvin chose the flowers and the seat next to Trey Hale.

It’s a celebration of our lives.

We turn to the justice of the peace, Chris Morgenson, my former music teacher and current business mentor.

“You’ve come a long way, Alex,” he says to a round of laughter.

I nod. “I’ve come to where I belong.”

Olivia sighs. “Where we belong.”

“Shall we get started?” Chris opens the book in front of him.