Epilogue
SIN
I’m not a nervous person by nature, but today is the day of reckoning.
Mika squeezes my hand. “Thank you. I mean that, Sin. It means a lot.”
“Don’t thank me yet. If shit goes south, I don’t wanna be sayin’ I told you so.”
She nods. “I know what a huge undertaking this is, bro. I don’t take it for granted. I know some people don’t deserve a second chance, and Mom may disappoint us again, but I’ve never had the chance to decide for myself.”
“I don’t want you to get hurt,” I tell her.
She smiles softly. “I know that, Sin, but I’m not a little girl anymore. I know the risks. I don’t have high expectations.” When I give her a look, she puffs out her cheeks. “Okay, maybe I do a little, but if she goes back on her word, trust me, I won’t be giving her another chance.”
I glance up at Sapphire. “How can I argue with that?”
She grins. “You can’t. I’m proud of you—both of you. This isn’t easy, and like Mika said, there are no guarantees she really has changed. If you’re willing to hear her out, then you know the risks. Some people can change if they really want to. Some don’t. That’s the risk you take.”
I lean over and peck her on the mouth. “This is why I love you. Your pep talks are foreplay for my?—”
Mika covers her ears. “Eww, stop. I don’t want to bleach my brain if you finish that sentence. You two are gross.”
“I’m in love with her, not my fault I can’t keep my hands off her.”
“Don’t make me throw up, I’m about to eat,” Mika complains.
Sapphire laughs. The tension she usually has hanging over her seems to have disappeared.
I know she’s independent; that’s one of the things I truly love about her, but ever since she told me about her dad, that weight seems to have lifted some.
My mind flicks back to the conversation we had with Reaper a week ago…
“What the fuck?” Reaper looks between me and his sister as we hold hands.
“I know it’s sudden,” Sapphire starts. “But… well… this is us. We’re together.”
“Sin, you know the fuckin’ rules…” Reaper starts.
“This is different.” Siblings and club sisters are off-limits, even I know that.
“Not that!” he barks. “Askin’ my fuckin’ permission first, asshole.”
Oh, that.
I wince, bracing for it. “You gonna hit me now?”
“As soon as my sister lets go of your hand, yeah, I fuckin’ am.” He gives Sapphire a chin lift.
“Thanks for the heads-up, sis.”
“Reap, this is new, even for us,” she pleads. “We didn’t mean for it to happen, it just did. In any case, you love Sin like a brother.”
“Not mad with you,” he says, then glares back at me. “I’m mad at him.”
I let go of Sapphire’s hand, and like clockwork, he swings. I let him hit me, and I’m not gonna lie, it hurts a little as my head flings to the side. I taste the copper in my mouth.
Reaper isn’t as big as me, but he’s a scrapper from way back, he knows how to hit hard.
It doesn’t matter that I could kill him with a few punches, I’m not gonna do that. Frankly, I deserve it. We have a brotherhood, and I get this could be awkward.
I turn back to face him. “You done?”
“You got one punch, quit fuckin’ whinin’.”
“Reaper,” Sapphire says, her fingers dusting over my cheek. “That’s not cool.”
“He should have had the balls to tell me before anyone else,” Reaper goes on. “Am I cool about it? Yeah, I am if he treats you right. Fuck this up and I will bury you, my friend. The Gulf won’t be far away enough.”
Funny, that’s the second time I’ve been threatened in a week.
“Wouldn’t expect any leniency.” I glance at Sapphire. “But I love her, and she loves me. We’re gonna make a go of it.”
He sighs, then wraps an arm around his sister, pulling her away from me. “If it’s what she wants, I guess I have no choice in the matter.”
“It is,” Sapphire tells him. “I love him.”
Reaper sighs. “Then that’s all I need to know…”
We’re meeting Mom on neutral grounds: the Saddle Hop.
I don’t know what will happen today, or if there is any chance for us as a family, but I’ll keep her at arm’s length.
I won’t get my heart invested like I did all the other times.
Mika deserves a chance to know her. The real her, and if it turns out she hasn’t changed, I’ll escort her out of town myself, never to return.
I have everything I want right here, and having Sapphire beside me is the icing on the cake.
I’m in love, for the first time in my life, with the woman of my dreams. She may have been under my nose all along, but we came together at the perfect time.
Our eyes meet, and I know I’m looking into the soul of my other half.
My woman.
My Sapphire.
Sapphire
I grip Sin’s hair, spreading my legs wider as he groans.
When we got back to my place, he didn’t waste any time in pulling my panties down and getting to business. The man is insatiable.
The first swipe of his tongue dragging through my pussy is almost too much to take. It’s so good, I can barely stand it.
“So fuckin’ sweet,” he mutters, the short stubble of his beard tickling my sensitive flesh.
He laps at me, stimulating my clit over and over until I’m crying out his name.
I buck against him, gripping his hair tighter, which only makes him groan louder, and he knows his noises do wild things to me. “I can’t wait to be inside you.”
For once, I don’t sass him out and tell him what to do. Nope, at this particular juncture, I’m a-okay with him taking the lead. And he does, again and again, as he sends me to heaven and back multiple times.
“Baby, please,” I beg him. “I can’t take anymore.”
He pulls back, looking up at me with a gleam in his eyes. “You taste so fuckin’ sweet, could eat you out all night.”
“But I need that big cock inside me,” I whine.
He fists himself, and my eyes drop to his hand, working over his cock. He’s naked in front of me as I sit on the edge of the bed. I’ll never grow tired of the sight of him like this.
“I love it when you beg.” He pushes me backward and moves over the top of me. Holding himself, he teases my entrance as I watch his ministrations with the heat of a thousand fires rolling through my veins.
Sin coats himself in my slickness, rubbing his cockhead back and forth. It drives me wild. I arch my back, trying to coax him inside, but when Sin wants to take me, he will.
He does it again until my fingernails dig into his ass. I’m right on the cusp of another orgasm when he lines up and pushes in, inch by inch.
Fuck.
I fall hard, the jolt of his cock, and his pubic bone hitting my clit sends me off like a rocket.
Sin gives me no time to adjust, he just pulls out, then slams back in. “You feel that, cupcake? What my cock is doin’ to this sweet, sweet pussy?”
I garble some form of a plea, but I don’t want him to stop. “Harder,” I cry when I find my voice. “Faster.”
He tsks. “Now, now, patience is a virtue.”
I squeeze him, and he feels it, groaning as I lift my hips. Two can play at the testing-our-limits game.
“So tight,” he growls. “You’re gonna make me explode.”
Sin is filling me so full, just like he always does. “I love it. I love you.”
“I love you, too—” My orgasm hits again. I fall under his spell, my body going into overdrive, like it always does when he tells me he loves me while fucking me.
“That’s it, baby, squeeze me, squeeze all the cum out of me. It feels so fuckin’ good.”
His dirty talk? Next level.
We gave up on condoms straight away. I’m on birth control, and while we don’t have kids in our immediate future, never say never.
I can see Sin as a dad. To be honest, I never thought I wanted kids until we got together.
Anything is possible, but right now? Right now, I’m content.
Happy. Fulfilled. And I’m learning new things about myself and Sin.
I’m enjoying this time together, exploring each other.
He pumps me hard, rocking his hips back and forth as my fingers dig into the comforter beneath me.
Sin rocks my world like nobody else ever could.
The way he stretches me, claiming me so completely that I’m lost. The steady rhythm hits me in all the right places.
When he shifts, his hands grip my thighs to pull me even closer, I cry out his name.
“That’s it, let me hear you, Saph.”
I know he’s close by the way he steels his jaw, his hands cupping my ass as we go at it like rabbits. I love being pinned beneath him, and I love when he takes charge, pumping me so good that I can’t remember a time when I felt like this.
“Fuck me,” I cry. “So good. Oh, it’s so good. Don’t stop…” I lift my hips, meeting him thrust for thrust as I lose my mind, and so does he as his jerks become more erratic. I come hard, my hands roaming all over his body. He stills and empties inside me with a loud roar.
“Holy fuck,” he mutters, collapsing on top of me. “That was goddamn amazing.”
“I’m glad you think so,” I muse, tousling his hair.
Sin likes to stay inside me after, and I love it that he doesn’t want to pull out right away.
He looks up at me. “Today was a good day.”
My face softens, and I take in his soulful expression. This man is so vulnerable with me, which I don’t take for granted. “You did a good thing. Your mom is lucky.”
He nods. “Time will tell.”
“It will, but you can go forward knowing that you did everything you could. If things don’t pan out, none of this is on you.”
“I really want to believe she’s changed this time.” His voice sounds so sad.
I’m also sad that he can’t give his mom his all, because she’s seriously missing out on an amazing man. As Sin said, time will tell, and I understand why he’s being cautious. “I know you do, but Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
“Tell me you love me.”
“I love you,” I say without blinking.
“That makes me feel better.”
I stroke his face. “I can’t even believe we’re here like this,” I whisper. “I feel like I’ve loved you my entire life, but only just woke up to it.”
He smiles down at me. “So does that mean I’m finally the alpha?”
As if sensing a disruption in the pecking order, Pickles suddenly jumps onto the bed. He glares at Sin, then makes himself comfortable on the pillows, his back to us.
“I think he’s mad at us.” I snort a laugh. “Now you’ve done it.”
“I guess I should’ve thought about closin’ the door so he didn’t see Mommy in this predicament.”
“He’ll love you as much as I do soon, you’ll see.”
He chuckles. “I won’t hold my breath.” He presses a tender kiss to my lips.
“As long as you love me, that’s all that matters.”
“I must do, because Pickles here told me you don’t cook, so I’ve gotta go and feed my woman.”
“Oh,” I say, feigning shock. “Oops, didn’t I tell you that?”
“Nope.” He rolls his eyes, but there’s a twinkle in his eye.
Yep, my man cooks, and that is truly a gift from the Almighty.
“If we’re going all out, Pickles enjoys salmon. You could cook him some as a peace offering for defiling his mom.”
He can barely hold in his laughter. “Careful, I’ll have him eatin’ out of the palm of my hand, then he’ll be on my side. It’ll be two against one.”
“As long as you keep that mouth running, I’m getting hungrier,” I singsong.
He shakes his head. “Anyone ever tell you lovin’ you is a full-time job?”
“Nope,” I say, gleefully. “You’re the first.”
“And the last,” he reminds me.
“Yes,” I whisper, lifting to kiss him once more. “You’re the only one that could ever put up with me.”
He grins. “Can say that again.”
Time stands still when we’re together. That’s how I know this will last, because we’ve bared our souls and told each other our deepest secrets, yet neither of us ran away. We only got closer.
Sin is the man I always dreamed of.
He’s mine. All mine.
Nothing else matters.