Epilogue the Wedding Night Jude
EPILOGUE: THE WEDDING NIGHT: JUDE
M y new bride is dancing on tables and smiling at perfect strangers. She already blew a thousand dollars at the blackjack table and I don’t give a damn. I’ve got her and that’s all I need.
My eyes drift over to Christ who’s hunched over a glass of red wine and glaring at the sister of his runaway bride. My good mood sours a little.
I’m in love and I want my friend to be happy and in love too. Is that too much to ask?
But if Chris’s face is anything to go by he’s too pissed to be happy right now.
I pull Heather down from the table and point at him. “You think he’s alright to leave alone? He looks like he’s gonna slug someone.”
She nods her head and then her little hands twine into my shirt and she pulls me closer. “I think he’ll be fine. I also think it’s about time you take me upstairs and make good on all that dirty talk from earlier. Or I’m going to be very disappointed.”
I grin down at her and tug her along behind me. “Well, we can’t have that for your wedding night, Red. Come on, then.”
I grab her and throw her over my shoulder when she’s too slow and she laughs like wind chimes, giggling and pounding on my back.
“Jude! What are you doing? Put me down!”
“Nope! I need to get you upstairs and naked as fast as possible and you’re taking too long, Red. I think you’re trying to torture me.”
I can’t help but smile when she giggles again. Fuck, I love this woman.
I get to my room which I’d upgraded to the bridal suite and slam the door shut, letting her slide down my body. “I fucking love you, Mrs. McHenry.”
“I love you too, Jude. So much. So much that it hurts. I’m sorry that I thought you left me and I got so mad. I should have known that there was something more.”
Her pretty smile and bright eyes warm my heart. “I never should have let you get away with walking away. And I shouldn’t have told your brother that I love you before I told you.”
She laughs and swats at my chest, her joyous smile almost too bright to look at. “Yeah. You shouldn’t have. But I’m glad you did. Because that made me look harder at what happened and how things had gone. I knew that if you loved me like you said, there’s no way that you’d want to hurt me by leaving me like that unless there was something really wrong. I should have known it was all about what you said after we made love. That you thought you hurt me.”
“I can’t even bear that thought. It breaks me in ways that you just can’t imagine. It would kill me if I hurt you.”
She smiles and her soft little hand cradles my cheek. “I know that you’d never do a damn thing to hurt me. You’re the love of my life. I trust you with every piece of me. The only thing that bothers me is that it took this long when we’ve loved each other all our lives.”
I can’t even find it in me to be mad about that. “Red, we were always meant to be together but it had to be the right time and the right place.”
“Who knew that would be Vegas? I almost like this place now.”
I huff, “I should hope so. This is where we found each other and our journey as husband and wife begins.”
“Do you think you could move this along, Jude. I’d like to take this journey a little faster and in that direction.”
She points at the bed and I snort. “You’re a wicked, wicked woman. I wish I’d known that sooner!”
Then I kiss her gently, softly and it’s like my whole world turns from black to color. Like everything is new and bright and beautiful because I have her, she’s mine and we’re together forever.
I lift her up in my arms, bridal-style and carry her to the bed, putting her on her feet and laughing at the red velvet heart bed and bedding. “It’s a lot to take in but with you, there’s nothing I won’t survive. Even a heart-shaped bed in Vegas.”
I turn her and gently pull the zipper of her dress down, my breath coming in pants at each little inch of bare, pale skin that’s revealed. “God, you’re beautiful. And mine. All mine.”
“Forever, Jude. I’m yours and you’re mine forever.”
I push her lightly to the bed, gently taking off her shoes and kissing the arch of her foot. Every inch of this woman is more lovely than any other and I want her to know that. To know how much her love and surrender mean to me.
I run my fingers up her calves and to the soft, thick curve of her thighs, gently parting them, eyeing the white silk thong she’s wearing and the blue garter on her thigh.
I lift a brow. “Nobody got the garter and it’s a damn good thing. I’d hate to have to beat some poor sucker to death because this thing touched your thighs and he thought he was gonna get to keep it.”
She giggles and her long, auburn curls are splayed out on that red velvet blanket and it should look terrible but not on her. Even hideous red can’t hide the loving smile and warm look in her blue eyes.
“Come make love to me, husband. Stop teasing me. I need you so much,” she whispers.
“How much?”
“So much that I can’t breathe until you’re inside me and we’re finally one again.”
“Well, we definitely can’t have that.” I kiss her and my hands caress her soft, gentle curves. My heart races and I line myself up with her slick heat as she lifts her hips up to meet me.
“Now, please,” she whimpers. I push gently inside of her, still a little worried about hurting her.
Until she growls and pulls me down at the same time she slams her hips up into me. She hisses out a breath as I’m buried, balls-deep inside her. Her hot pussy surrounds me and it’s like heaven. A dirty, dirty heaven. But still….heaven. With the love of my life.
Bending down, I take one of her nipples in my mouth, suckling at her as she lifts up and groans and sighs. Her strawberries and cream scent washes over me and I’m so fucking hard and so close to coming that I can’t even breathe.
“Fuck me now, Jude. Hard and fast. Brand me so that everyone knows that I’m yours.”
Grunting, I tug and pull at her other breast, slamming inside her pussy and moaning when her slick tunnel tightens around my cock. “I wanted to make this last, Red. But you’re killing me. You feel so good.”
“I don’t need lasting, Jude. I need a good fucking from my brand-new husband. Now,” she pants and I growl, pumping my hips into her again and again, faster, harder. As she meets me stroke for stroke until her lush hips stutter and she throws her head back, her bruised lips screaming out my name.
“Jude, oh god! Jude! Yes!”
My cock jerks as she goes off like a bomb under me, her pussy like a vise, squeezing my cum out of me in jerks as I thrust into her. One, two and three times she comes apart as my seed erupts inside her.
I push her down and then wrap her in my arms. She pants and gasps and her flushed cheeks are the cutest damn thing I’ve ever seen.
“Damn, you’re pretty.”
She smiles at me. “Aren’t you gonna get up?”
I shake my head. “Hell no! I’m gonna stay here and hope that my little guys find the right place and I knock you up on our wedding night.”
Her blue eyes widen. “You’re that excited to be a dad?”
“With you? I want to do everything, Red. Every damn thing. The thought of watching you grow round with my child? Sexiest damn thing I’ve ever thought about. I can’t wait.”
Her head rests on my chest and she yawns. “I hope you know what you’re doing, Jude. Any child of ours is going to be a handful.”
“The best kind. I want all of it with you, Red. We’ve spent too much time apart.”
Her eyes close and she smiles softly. “I agree. I can’t wait to see how our life turns out.”
“It’s gonna be amazing, Red. With you by my side, that’s all it could be.”
She smiles and her soft breaths tell me she’s fallen asleep. I should move and let her breathe but I’m not going to.
I’ve got an angel in my arms and there’s no way I’m ever letting her go. I close my eyes and smile. Heaven. And Home. That’s what it feels like with her.
The home I’ve always wanted and I just never realized it was right here for the asking. With the girl of my dreams from my own hometown.
Sometimes you can go home.