Epilogue
Killian
A few weeks later..
Celani’s moans travel up to the tall wood beams of the ceiling of our bedroom, and I groan as she tightens around my cock.
I move my hand down to massage her clit, slowing down my strokes as her pretty eyes flutter back open and focus on me. That sly grin that I love plays on her perfect lips and I lean down to give her a rough kiss.
“Killian,” she whines, as my lips trail kisses down her neck.
“Come on, baby,” I urge. “I can tell you’re close.”
My eyes move to hers and I rub my thumb faster over her clit until her back arches and she explodes. I groan as she comes undone, my name repeating over, and over again on her lips.
A reckless thought flies through my mind.
A wish that this condom wasn’t in place so that I could feel every inch of her. Give her my seed this time instead of putting it in this thing.
I slowly pull out of her while she comes down from her high, and I take it off.
Her half-lidded gaze falls on me and she tilts her head.
“What..what are you doing, Kill?”
I toss the condom onto my discarded clothes on the floor and lean down to give her a slow kiss. “We don’t need that, baby,” I persuade her, kissing my way up to her forehead.
The orgasm filled haze lifts and her eyes widen. “Kill.. you know I’m not.. I mean. I’m not sure if I can have kids, but there is still a chance,” she stammers, before pressing her lips together.
I pull back and her eyes leave mine and fall down to where I’m slowly stroking my cock. I rub my lips against her cheek trying to assuage her doubtful thoughts.
“I’ll pull out if you want me to,” I rasp, the offer sounding foreign to my own ears.
I’ve never tried to convince a woman to have sex without protection. In fact my entire sex life has been the exact opposite. I keep a condom on me the same way I keep my gun attached to my side. It’s never even a question if I would use it if the occasion called for it.
But I’ve never been in love like I am with Celani.
I want her to have every single part of me, and I want hers too.
I rub my cock through her wet folds, and she whimpers, pressing herself against me instinctively. I know I’m not playing this fair, but she has to understand that I want her even if my seed may never take root. I want her, anything else is just a bonus to my life.
“Celani,” I murmur.
She lets out a slow breath and brings her hands up to rest on either side of my face. “I don’t want you to pull out. I want all of you, Kill. Give me everything,” she says, sliding her fingers into my hair.
I stare down at her for a moment in a trance. My body is so still that I don’t even remember to breathe. There’s no sound between us except our heavy breaths and hearts pounding.
“I love you,” I rasp, as I keep my eyes locked on hers. I push into her slowly and a groan rolls up my throat feeling every inch of her.
Warm. Perfect. Mine.
“Oh my..Killian,” she moans. Her fingers tighten around the strands of my hair like she’s trying to hold on to her sanity as I give her deep purposeful strokes.
Our lips find one another and we kiss slowly and unhurried until she’s tightening around me again. My fingers dig into her hips, and I’m falling right over the edge with her.
“I love you so much, baby,” I groan, my mind shattering and rearranging itself as I come inside of her with one last thrust.
“I love you so much more,” she murmurs, laying limp underneath me.
I lay down on her gently and she traces circles over the bare skin on my back. A feeling of contentment that I’ve only ever known with her flows through me. I bury my face into her neck and almost start to drift off to sleep again before I remember we actually have things to do today.
It is Christmas after all.
I kiss her throat and lift my head up to look down at her beautiful face.
“Are you good, sweetheart?” I ask quietly, giving her a lopsided smile.
She smiles lazily up at me and nods. “I’m always good with you, Kill. That felt unreal.”
A warm feeling spreads through me and my cock twitches at her compliment. Only she can make me feel like I’m melting with just a few words. All of the rough edges I had when I met her are still there, but they fall away when I’m alone with her.
I slowly pull out of her again and watch with satisfaction how good I filled her up as my cum slowly trickles out of her. I bend down and kiss her once more before I get up to get her a washcloth and clean her up.
When I’m done cleaning us both up, her phone rings shrilly breaking into our quiet cocoon.
I move to get it for her, and scoop up Shadow onto our bed to stop his loud protesting of being left away from us. I smirk when I see the name on her phone.
“It’s your other, other half,” I say amused.
She smiles as she takes the phone from me and puts the call on speaker phone.
“Merry Christmas, Des!” She chirps with so much enthusiasm it makes me chuckle.
Seeing her come back to life the past few weeks has made me so damn happy. The glimpses of the sassy, sweet, funny woman I met in Redland was only the tip of the iceberg of how amazing she truly is. Now that things have calmed down around us I’ve gotten to see so much more of her humor and joy.
“Merry Christmas, Lani,” her best friend Desirée says through the speaker, sounding amused. “I’m so sorry to pry you and your man off of each other, but you weren’t answering my texts.”
Celani rolls her eyes over at me and I chuckle as I get under the sheets with her again.
“Oh give me a break, Des! Like you and Stetson aren’t the same way,” Celani counters. “Right, Kill?”
“I’m not getting involved in this argument,” I laugh, holding up my hands. “Merry Christmas, Des.”
“Oh! Merry Christmas, Killian! I didn’t realize I was on speaker phone. Sorry,” Desiree chuckles.
The two of them slip into laughter and I shake my head and lay down on the pillow.
“Anyway, we’re going to get ready right now,” Celani promises, batting away my wandering hand as it lands on one of her breasts. “We should be there by 4. Oh! How did the surprise go with the Christmas gifts this morning?”
“So great! Everyone was so surprised,” Desirée exclaims happily.
“That is so awesome, girl!” Celani exclaims, grinning. “I’m so happy for y’all. Tell me more details when we get there, ok? I’m getting in the shower.”
They hang up and she smiles over at me, scooping up Shadow into her arms. “Let’s take a shower and I’ll help you pick out something nice to wear.”
We both look over to my duffle bags that are still lined up in front of her walk-in closet with my whole life inside of them.
“Maybe we can actually hang up your things too,” she suggests, lifting an eyebrow at me.
After we left Redland, and made a quick stop in Verona for a few days, I flew her out to one of the brownstones that I own in New York.
I packed the small amount of clothes I had stashed there up into bags, then we went to check on two of my rental properties in the city before flying back to Verona.
I haven’t really unpacked anything here because I haven't fully settled into a place in years, and I guess old habits die hard. But now it’s definitely time.
My team all went in their own directions to take a break after we left Redland. Malakai, Davi, and Floyd are in their own homes in New York, and New Jersey. Jules flew back to France to spend time with her family, and Asher decided to rent a beach house down in Seabrook until the New Year.
We had dinner with some of the guys when we were up in New York, and then met with Asher last week in Seabrook. We had an early Christmas dinner with him at a nice place called Spello’s, and he was the most relaxed I think I’ve ever seen him.
Lucian has been contacting me for leads on new assignments, but I haven’t responded to any of them.
Malakai and I are talking about him taking over my security business to have him run it with Davi, Floyd, and Jules.
He’s more than capable of handling it, and I know the rest of them all want to keep working together.
Asher and I are discussing starting a home and cyber security business that we could base here in Verona but expand to other cities.
All I need to do is convince him to stick around in our state long term.
After seeing how at peace he seemed last week in Seabrook, I don’t think that it will be too hard.
As for Pierce, he was more than grateful for our help getting him out of the disaster he created. He even tried to pay us a bonus for our trouble, but I refused.
Taking Celani and threatening him to never contact her again sufficed.
Last week, Celani was asked by an old friend of hers to come work at a small physician's practice she is opening here in Verona, and Celani is thinking it over. For now she is still enjoying her time off practicing her favorite hobby. Having me and her friends try out her new recipes.
She’s spent most of December testing out new Christmas cookie recipes and delivering them to her friends and old co-workers. I know when the New Year comes she will be making up her mind, and whatever she decides, I’ll be here to support her every step of the way.
We shower together and I reluctantly pry myself off of her to get dressed. She picks out an appropriately festive ensemble for both of us. A red dress for her, and a green dress shirt and black slacks for me.
She holds my hand as we drive up the winding roads towards Desirée’s parent’s home in Delaney Hills. She looks over at me as we stop at a red light, the corner of her mouth lifting.
“I love you, Kill,” she says, kissing my hand. “I can’t wait to spend every Christmas with you from now on. Every day with you feels like a dream.”
I lean over and kiss her gently on the lips.
“And it always will be, baby.”
The End