Epilogue
Henry
I’m not sure I ever actually agreed to move in with Anders, but just like he said, he emptied my apartment while I was at work and handed the key back to Bay without another word.
Now for the first time in twenty-two years, I have a home. Not a house or a safe place to hide from the world, but a home filled with love and happiness.
Anders’s need for control has both changed and intensified when it comes to me. He is a dominant person, and I’m sure he’ll always be in charge when it comes to sex, but in our everyday life he doesn’t need to control me, he just wants to love me and take care of me.
When we first met, he threatened to take over my life if I let him, but even though I’ve handed him me on a platter, he’s never lost control in the way he worried he would.
That’s probably because we’re rarely apart. We eat, sleep, bathe, and socialize together. When he’s not on shift, he drives me to work and picks me up. He makes me lunch every day or has food delivered to me on the days he can’t.
He shops for me and spoils me with everything I could ever need and all the things he thinks I might want. He dresses me, follows me into the bathroom, and tracks my phone—even though he thinks I don’t know.
Before him, I was alone, hiding from any connection that could force me out of the shell I was cowering inside of.
But he’s given me the confidence to be brave and bold.
Now I have a life, I have friends, I have people, and best of all, I have him.
I didn’t think I was deserving of love, because my entire life before him was a series of rejections and dismissals.
But he’s taught me that love doesn’t have to be scary, it doesn’t have to be conditional.
He’s taught me that I’m worthy of happiness.
Anders is my world, he’s controlling, dominant, bossy, and…perfect.
The day we met, our desire burned bright and wild, an inferno fraught with uncertainties and misconceptions. But now the flames have died down to a blissful glow that keeps us both warm and surrounds us with the knowledge that we’re perfect for each other.
I’ve spent most of my life alone, but I’ll never be lonely again, because I fell in love with a Montana Mountain Protector, and it’s the best choice I ever made.