Epilogue One Desiree
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I throw my head back and laugh. All the brothers are wrestling on the floor, trying to prove who’s the strongest.
It’s ridiculous and asinine but so damn them that I can’t stop laughing. I lean against the table and tears stream down my cheeks.
“Seriously, man. You guys need help,” Jericho grumbles off to the side. His arm is still in a sling and he’s irritable as hell but he looks better than he did that day two weeks ago. He took a helluva beating and we weren’t sure he’d make it even as a shifter.
But now the crabby-ass cat hangs around the ranch like he’s one of them. And essentially he is.
You could have knocked me over with a feather when I found out that he was Callie’s half-brother that she lost touch with.
Micah’s dark navy eyes stay locked warily on the suave panther while Callie talks to him.
Her bright blue eyes dance and she laughs at something he says.
She’s pregnant now and there’s a baby bump just pushing its way out.
She’s holding her belly and Micah growls and stalks over to the two of them.
I grin and shift my eyes to where Rhys and Shiloh are watching Jericho like he’s a bomb about to go off.
I don’t know the story there fully but I know he tried to steal property from her.
Kind of a dick move if you ask me. But he saved my life so I guess I have to forgive him for hurting my new family.
My new husband glares at the boys still rolling on the ground and pulls me out of the line of fire. “Dammit you guys! I’m gonna kick your ass. Get up and act right! This is my wedding night.”
“Shouldn’t you be heading home? It is your wedding night!” Graham’s deep grey eyes sparkle with laughter. “I know how much I wanted to tell you guys to fuck off once Trixie here finally succumbed to my charms.”
Lavender-haired Trixie rolls her gorgeous blue eyes and grins. “Yeah. That’s what happened.”
All of the men laugh and Graham blushes. “That’s my story and I’m sticking to it,” he grumbles.
The silver-haired pixie married to Jasper smiles and rubs her back. She’s so pregnant that it looks like she could give birth at any moment.
“Yeah. I think that’s not quite how that story went.” I laugh again and then jump when Austin wraps an arm around me and whispers in my ear.
“You ready to leave, Mrs. Stone? I’ve got big plans for you tonight.
” A shiver runs over me as I stare into his hot, gleaming silver eyes.
His deep, gravelly voice makes me think of the last time I was wrapped up in his arms and that deep throbbing hits my belly and lower until I’d gladly climb him right where we’re at.
“I am so ready,” I whisper back.
His sheep-killing grin makes me laugh again. Cody is staying at the big house and all of them are planning on keeping an eye on him tonight. This big, loving family took him and me under their wings like we’d always belonged with them.
The wolf shifter, Leo, never made it to trial.
Jericho and Austin killed him out there in the woods behind the cabin.
There was enough talk around town and with some blood-soaked clothes in his cabin, we managed to make it clear as a bell he was the killer.
Austin was never mentioned in the same breath as Harvey’s killer.
He was buried in a beautiful spot on the ranch next to his wife and children. All of the men took his death hard but it helped knowing that he’s with his only love Eileen and his family. He’s finally at peace.
The ride home is quick and Austin pulls in and shuts off the engine. His fingers dance on the steering wheel nervously. “Are you sure I didn’t push you into this? You’re happy, my love?”
I nod and smile, crawling up onto his lap. I wrap my arms around his head and lace them. “I am right where I belong. Where I’ve always wanted to be. I love you, Austin. I love you so much.”
He grins and shoves the door wide. I squeal when he lifts me up in his big, burly arms. He kicks the door open and closed behind us. He drops me to the floor and twists us until I’m facing the door and his big, warm body is pushing into my back and ass.
“How do you want this to go, princess? I want you so bad I’m not sure if I can go as slow as you deserve.”
I turn my cheek until I can look into his beautiful, warm, loving eyes. My heart turns over and it hurts to breathe with how much I love him. “I want you. Hard, fast and for every minute of the next hundred years. Just make me yours.”
“Done,” he growls and rips my dress off right down the middle of my back. So rough and crazed but yet so gentle. Not a nail touches me.
Then he sheds his clothes and leans into me, his long fingers probing between my legs. I widen them, gasping and closing my eyes, lust creeping over me.
“So wet aren’t you, pet? Is all of this for me?” he purrs in my ear. Shivers wrack my body and I groan.
“Yes, it’s all for you,” I pant. “Please. Please take me. Hard. I need more.”
“Done. You belong to me.” He slams into me from behind and I gasp, my eyes rolling back in my head. His hands slide up the door and he catches my wrists, pulling them above my head. Heat sears me.
“I fucking love you,” he growls in my ear, his hips slamming into me again and again. Then he bends and lifts me. I moan in protest when I feel him slip out but he just turns me and wraps my legs around his waist.
With one earth-shattering thrust he’s buried in me up to the root.
“Holy shit!” I breathe out and then he slams my back into the wall.
His hand lands beside my head while the other slithers down and wedges between our bodies.
He circles my clit and grinds into it ruthlessly until I’m quaking in his arms and scrabbling, tightening my legs around his waist, desperate for the release I know only he can give me.
I can smell him all over me, around me and his growls into my neck have me barely functioning. That spicy scent that’s uniquely him ratchets my hunger higher until I close my legs tightly around his waist and stars go off behind my closed eyes.
“Shit! Oh god yes, Austin!” I scream, my body shaking so hard that my teeth chatter and my breath stutters.
“That’s it, mate. You take it all. I’ve got you,” he grunts. He pounds into me harder and faster and his dick jerks and sputters, his seed splashing in me as he tenses and grinds into me so deep that another wave of pleasure tears through me.
“Yes!” I scream, mindless with pleasure. I collapse in his arms and come to just as he lays me gently on the bed.
“I should have fucked you in the bed,” he grunts. “Not a good wedding night.”
I sit up and kiss his lips, feeling them cling to my own. He drinks in my sighs and I relish the contentment I find in his arms.
“Anywhere you want to fuck me is fine with me. I love you, Austin.”
He grins and a wicked smile curves his hard lips. “Anywhere? We might have to test that.”
I groan and fall back to the bed. “I’ve created a monster,” I groan, laughing.
His big paw curves gently around my cheek. “You tamed this monster, baby girl. I was lost and looking for my love and then there you were. The most beautiful, wicked and wild woman I’ve ever met. As soon as I saw you, I knew you were the one. My future. My mate.”
Tears splash on the sheets and I groan. “Dammit! That’s too damn sweet. I hate how you always make me cry.”
He shrugs and smiles. “It’s just the pregnancy hormones. Trust me, you’re still a bad-ass.”
My eyes widen. “I’m pregnant? Dammit! I hate shifters! I don’t even get to find out for myself that I’m pregnant!”
“Should I have waited to tell you? I thought you’d be happy.” Confusion swirls in his gray eyes.
“I am so happy. Tears pour down my cheeks and I bury my face in his broad, furred chest, breathing in the scent of him until I feel my fears calm.
I have a home. A family. A crazy shifter family that has taken me under their wings and made me realize that there are good people out there. People of all shapes and sizes that all just want the same things that I do. To be loved. And to love someone else with their whole heart and soul.
I rest my cheek on his chest and listen to his heart beating with mine, my eyes closing and my hand resting on my belly.
Soon we’ll have to build onto the cabin and welcome our newest addition.
Austin will be a wonderful father and I can’t wait to watch our family grow. My heart wells with hope and love. I press a kiss to his chest and snuggle deeper into him.
My mate. My love. Forever.