Page 136 of The Last Goodbye

And I wasn’t running from it—I was going to hold on tight.

epilogue

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Bass

We’d been back home for a couple of weeks, and we’d found a new favorite way to end our days. I’d cook dinner, Briar would do the dishes, and then we’d take a dip in the water under the stars every night just before we went to sleep.

It was dark as she moved to the side of the dock, with just the moonlight shining down on us. I swam over to her, my feet finding the lake floor as I stood. She reached for my shoulders, because she couldn’t touch the ground here.

“Hey,” she whispered. It was late, and no one else was out here tonight.

“Hey, beautiful.”

She wrapped her legs around my waist, and I tangled my hand in her hair and tugged her face down so I could kiss her. Her lips parted for me, and my tongue slipped in. I could kiss this woman for the rest of my life, and it wouldn’t be long enough.

She ground up against me, rocking up and down my erection, and I groaned against her mouth.

She pulled back to look at me. “Have you ever been with anyone without protection?”

“Never,” I said without hesitation.

“Me, either.” She moved so her lips were grazing the edge of my ear as she spoke. “I’m on the pill.”

Fuck me.

She didn’t have to ask me twice. Hell, she didn’t have to ask me once.

I was madly in love with this woman. I wanted everything with her.

“Do you want me to bury myself in you right here, right now?” I whispered. “Because if you’re asking me if I want to feel you with nothing between us—the answer is always going to be yes. I want every inch of you, baby.”

“Me, too.” Her long wet hair was slicked back from her gorgeous face.

“Hold on to my shoulders,” I said as I slipped my trunks down enough to free my throbbing cock.

I was hard as steel, even out here in the water.

If Briar was in my vicinity, my dick knew it.

I slipped her bikini bottoms to the side and positioned her just above the tip of my erection. Her teeth plunged into her lower lip as she gripped my shoulders and slowly slid down my shaft.

“That’s it, beautiful. You feel so fucking good,” I said as she continued to take me in. Inch by glorious fucking inch. She was wet and warm and tight, and it was almost too much.

I hadn’t realized how different it would feel, and there was no turning back.

Nothing would ever feel this good.

She paused once she’d taken all of me in, and I leaned my back against the dock and looked at her.

Fucking gorgeous.

I reached for her bikini top and slid it to the side. “I want to see your tits bounce when I fuck you bare for the first time.”

She tightened around me and started moving. I gripped her hips, letting her set the pace as I guided her up and down.

Over and over.