Total pages in book: 157
Estimated words: 155900 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 780(@200wpm)___ 624(@250wpm)___ 520(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 155900 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 780(@200wpm)___ 624(@250wpm)___ 520(@300wpm)
He was the one I’d been looking for all along.
Kane grunted as he fucked me hard and deep, murmurs of praise falling from his lips with each desperate stroke.
“So good, Emery. So fucking good.”
He pulled me back against him so he could grip me by the jaw, and he turned my head so he could kiss me into oblivion.
His mouth as potent as the drive of his body. He splayed his hand across my belly, running it down until he pressed it between my thighs.
His fingertips swirled over my clit.
Pleasure glinted and sparked in the darkened night. A glow that lit up around us.
I felt consumed. Overtaken.
Bliss flamed around us.
The two of us standing in the fire.
The juts and rocks of our bodies as we crashed into one another.
An inferno that consumed.
“Let go.” Kane commanded it low at my mouth.
But I was there.
Already gone.
Completely taken by this love that had been purposed for me.
I rode it.
This rapture.
With him as we both soared into the star-strewn heavens.
He gripped and pulled at me as he poured into my body.
Breaths heaving from him, he curled his arms back around me, holding me fiercely against his chest.
The two of us gazed out on the beauty, and he murmured, “There’s never been anything as beautiful as this. My girl blooming like a morning glory. Pulled from the darkness and coming alive. You are my perfect ten.”
Emery – Six Months Later
The bell jingled over the door of Ivy Threads. It was no longer located in Wisconsin. It was here in Moonlit Ridge, in the building two doors down from Moonflower.
Kane came striding in with that easy smirk on his face. The man so intimidatingly beautiful he never failed to steal my breath.
“Ah, I see you have been making magic, Little Warrior.”
My cheeks pinked at the pride in his voice. “You think so?”
I glanced around at the displays of clothing and accessories. Mine and my sister’s dream. The one I’d let go out of fear that now had come to fruition.
“It’s amazing. Whole town is going to be clambering to get through that door come tomorrow morning.”
Excitement blazed in my chest, and he rounded the counter that he’d built then helped me paint.
The store had been decorated in pinks and whites, something Charleigh had suggested and Raven had reluctantly climbed on board with, the two of them helping me design and put everything together. The shelves and floors were whitewashed woods, and the seating areas were soft blush velvet.
A chandelier hung from the ceiling, giving a glam vibe to the different displays situated around the store, and Raven had insisted on bringing over a slew of pink and white flower arrangements from Moonflower for our grand opening.
Kane wrapped his arms around me from behind and hooked his chin on my shoulder. He swayed me back and forth. “No chance of it not being amazing. Not when you are behind it.”
Air puffed from my nose, and I rested against his chest, watching the flurries of snow fall out the big windows in front. Colorful lights and wreaths adorned each storefront outside, the streets of Moonlit Ridge decorated for the holidays.
I couldn’t wait for my mom and Ted to come visit for Christmas. For them to see our new home. This life we had made.
The joy we had found amid the horrible grief.
“I’m so happy,” I whispered.
Those arms tightened a fraction. “So. Damned. Happy,” Kane grunted at the shell of my ear.
Both of us seemed to be drawn to the bracelet that I wore around my wrist. The one that his mother had worn. The one that had been lost when Kane’s heart had been lost. The same one that had served to guide us here.
Connecting us.
Binding us.
“She would be so proud of you, Kane,” I murmured.
His nod was wistful. “Think she would have given anything to see this. You, me, and Maci.”
Kane traced his fingertip over one of the roses, and I whispered, “Maybe she’s been right here, all along.”
The bell dinged overhead, and my attention jerked up as we were popped from our bubble.
A really beautiful woman came through the door, wearing a puffy white coat with faux fur around the neck, jeans, and heeled boots that came up just past her knees.
She smiled, both confident and wary as she stepped into the boutique. “Hi, I hope it’s okay that I just came in, but I saw that you are hiring?”
With a smile, I untangled myself from Kane and stepped closer to the counter. “We are. I’m just getting ready to open the shop tomorrow, and with ski season and the holidays, we’re definitely going to be shorthanded. I’m Emery.”
Eagerness shined in her eyes. “It’s so nice to meet you. I’m Piper.” She paused then lifted an uncertain shoulder to her ear. “I was hoping I could put in an application?”