EPILOGUE
Two years later.
“Any minute now,” Michael whispered excitedly.
I had my eyes half closed with my fingers. “Has it rolled?”
“Not yet.”
A moment passed before he screamed, “Yes, it’s on.” He crashed me into a tight hug, and the room erupted in cheers.
My lips wobbled as I watched my name scroll through the credits.
Lily DeClere- Lead character designer.
“I’m so proud of you,” Michael muttered.
I mumbled thanks as I hugged him tightly.
Just as he left me, my brother pulled me into a hug, followed by Katy, Evy, and the boys. We all huddled up in our hotel room, which was more like a penthouse, to watch the anime that I worked on for the past two years air on TV. To see some of my panels animated on a live screen had me feeling in ways that I couldn’t put into words. I was so proud of how far I’d come.
“Wouldn’t have been possible without you,” I whispered in Michael’s ears later that night when it was just the two of us .
And it was true. None of this would’ve been possible without him. He kept his word and didn’t let his demons win. Instead, he stayed through thick and thin.
“It’s all you, little mouse.” He grinned, playing with my fingers. “How about after this tour, we settle in? Buy ourselves a house?”
I smiled. “I think I like that.” His words brought in a flash of little kids, giggling under the sun. It made my cheeks burn because that thought wasn’t a long-lost dream now. It could be possible. I was nowhere near ready to have kids, but that sounded like a good dream to have.
“What are you thinking?”
“Nothing,” I blurted.
His smirked. “Really, then why is your face red, like when you’re right about to come?”
“Michael,” I chided.
His eyes locked me in an intense stare that made my breath hitch. “How about I make it happen?”
“I would like that,” I breathed.
“Fuck, yeah,” he mumbled before swallowing my lips in a brutal and unapologetic kiss that made my body tingle.
It didn’t matter if he took me in a hundred different ways, and we fucked a million times before. It always felt like the first time with him.
He crashed me into the back of the couch, his lips never leaving mine as his hips ground into me. A moan ripped out of my throat when I felt his rock-hard length growing underneath me.
“Do you want me?”
“I do. ”
“How much?” He bunched my dress to my waist, his finger going straight to the mess between my thighs. “Tell me, little mouse,” he commanded.
“Very,” I groaned.
“Good,” he growled, plunging two fingers into my depths.
I moaned louder as I felt his fingers stretch me wild, stroking into me hard. My eyes hooded as pleasure swept over my body, holding me hostage underneath him.
I heard the faint sound of his zipper in the background, but it only lasted a second.
“I’m going to fuck you so hard, baby,” he drawled, his teeth catching the edge of my cheek.
I didn’t even feel the loss of his fingers before his cock filled me up completely.
And then he fucked me so hard like he promised.
I whimpered against his hold, lost for words as he drove into me at a fevered pace. It wasn’t long before I felt the intensity in me rise.
“I love you, Lily, so fucking much,” he rasped, gripping my hips as he rammed into me harder and faster. “Come for me, baby, then I’ll fill you up with my cum.”
“Oh fuck,” I screamed, “Michael.”
My pussy clamped around his cock, and my orgasm shook my core, my body lighting up in sparks as I came.
His hand on my hips tightened, and he grunted my name before filling me up with his warm cum deep inside as our bodies quaked from the pleasure.
I was breathing hard by the time he gathered me in his arms, tucking me close to him. His hands softly curved along my spine, up and down, over and over again .
Like he did every night.
“Can we go another round?” he asked as my eyes lulled to sleep, but my traitorous body woke up from his words, insatiable with need. For him .
“Yes.”
He flashed me a wide grin that sent my heart into a flurry.
God, he was so adorable at times.
But that thought didn’t last long before he flipped us over and made me scream over and over again that night.