Total pages in book: 87
Estimated words: 83085 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 415(@200wpm)___ 332(@250wpm)___ 277(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 83085 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 415(@200wpm)___ 332(@250wpm)___ 277(@300wpm)
“Needy for you,” he replied as I pulled out.
We collapsed onto the bed together. I pushed a finger in his ass, one coated with his release, feeling mine thick inside him. “Now we’re in there together.”
I went to pull my finger out, but he said, “No, don’t. Not yet.”
So I didn’t, and we lay there together as I played with his hole, sometimes kissing, sometimes not. “I love you.”
He smiled. “I love you too. I’ll never get tired of hearing you say that.”
“I’ll tell you every day.” And I planned on it. Loving Griffin Caine made me the luckiest man on earth. I never wanted him to doubt that.
“Yeah, me too. You know, on the surface, I’ve always had what I wanted, what I needed—great parents, my brother, Chase, my bar—but I hadn’t found my place, where I belonged. I know it now. My place is with you.”
“I like that…and my place is with you too. If you think about it, all of ours is in some way. Your bar, the atmosphere you created there, it’s where we’re safe, where we can unwind. I don’t know if you realize how much you bring us all together.”
Griff’s place had become our home, and I was so damn honored to be the place he called home too.
EPILOGUE
Griffin
Eighteen Months Later
“It’s still hard to believe, isn’t it?” Josh asked as he pulled his car up in front of Kell and Chase’s.
My heart swelled, this strange twitch in my chest. It was hard to believe. My little brother, the guy who’d struggled growing up in Havenwood, who hadn’t had a lot of friends, was married and a father. I rubbed a hand over my heart. I wished our parents were alive to see it. “Yeah, it is.”
Josh shut off the car. “Hey, you okay, sweetheart?” I turned in my seat and took him in, this beautiful man who’d changed my whole damn world. Who’d shown me what passion was, who’d made me realize I could have love. We’d been living together for a year. We were in bed together every night. Sometimes we drove each other crazy, but hell, what couple didn’t every once in a while? All I knew was I was so damn lucky to be loved by him.
“I’m perfect.”
He winked. “You’re all right.”
“Funny man.”
He leaned over and kissed me. “Let’s go see our niece.”
It wasn’t the first time we’d seen her. Josh and I had been at the hospital when Natalie went into labor. Kellan, Chase, and Miguel had all been in the room with her, while I paced the waiting room like a crazy person and Josh tried to keep me calm. They’d come home yesterday, though, and everyone was heading to their place to meet her today.
We climbed out of the car just as Knox, Callum, Logan, and Charlie pulled up, followed by Law and Remy.
“Do you think you and Dad will have more kids?” I heard Charlie ask Callum.
Callum wrapped an arm around her. “Nope, we already have the best two.”
“We are pretty awesome, aren’t we?” the little girl replied, and we laughed. She was a handful, that one.
Carol and Charlie had moved into my house last summer, as planned. Charlie was in school in Havenwood and loving it. She still lived primarily with Carol, and Logan with Knox and Callum, but they spent a lot of time at each other’s places.
“Do you want kids?” Logan asked Law and Remy.
“I think we’re all just going to spend a lot of time spoiling the two of you and the little girl inside that house,” Remy told him, and I had no doubt he was right.
“Hey, how’s it going, uncles?” Law asked.
I smiled. “She’s beautiful. Let’s get in there and see her.”
Knox clapped me on the back. “Happy for you, brother.”
“Thanks.” I knocked softly on the door before pushing it open as Kellan said to do. He didn’t want us to ring the bell and wake the baby if she was sleeping.
When we got inside, Kellan was sitting on the couch, Chase beside him, with a bundle in his arms. Natalie was in a chair across from them, twisting the engagement ring on her finger as Miguel stood beside her.
“She awake?” Josh asked.
“She is,” Kell replied. “Everyone, meet Destiny Sue Caine.” Her middle name was after our mom.
Chase stood, and the group of us crowded around them. She was so tiny, had only been seven pounds at birth, then lost a few ounces, but was already gaining them back. Her little eyes were looking around, like they were trying to focus on all of us, her cheeks fuller than the rest of her was.
“Kellan had cheeks just like that when he was a baby.” I brushed my thumb against them.
“She’s beautiful,” Knox said. “Look at that head of hair! Logan was the same.”