Epilogue
Hudson
Two months later
I wasted no time making Carina my fiancée. If it were up to me, we’d already be married. I was dying to call her my wife.
But all good things come in due time. I was learning to be more patient, something love needed to be.
It also needed to be kind and understanding, grateful, and most importantly, full of compromise.
Two people coming together wasn’t always easy, with as many bumps in the road as anything else in life.
And the two of us? We were sometimes like oil and water. She was loud to my quiet, light to my dark, yin to my yang. Absolute perfection in every way. And despite our differences, we found a way to stay blended.
Carina might be the opposite of me in many ways, yet she was my perfect person through and through, and I’d never tire of showing her how much she meant to me.
“Gruff, be gentle! Don’t run her—ugh, too late. Gruff!” Carina tugged on Gruff’s leash, and he calmed down for a second before pouncing around again.
She handed me the leash with a look of amusement.
“That dog. Loves to push the boundaries. Kind of like someone else I know.” She winked and elbowed me playfully as she took Jellybean’s leash.
Jellybean was the newest addition to our family, a pretty boxer puppy we recently adopted together.
She was a baby and still didn’t have as much energy as Gruff.
As I reined Gruff in, Carina scooped up Jellybean, looking her over in case Gruff didn’t cause any injuries. Not that he would ever intentionally hurt Jellybean, but sometimes I wondered if he realized just how big and strong he was.
Carina and her cat, Sunny, moved into my cabin a couple of weeks ago, and we rescued Jellybean a week later.
We’d spent a lot of time in the backyard, training and playing with the dogs, getting it all in before the weather changed.
The hardest was leash training, and today, Gruff was not having it.
A crack of thunder sounded in the distance.
“Guess you’re a lucky one today, Gruff. The rain is ending our training session early.” A few raindrops began to fall.
We hurried inside with the dogs as the sky opened and rain poured down, drenching everything in its path. “Well, that was unexpected,” Carina said as she watched the storm from the sliding glass door.
“Yeah, the weather forecast seemed pretty clear.” I slid my arms around her from behind and nuzzled her neck. “Looks like I won’t be getting any work done later.”
She spun around, her sweet scent wafting inside my nose, jolting my dick to life. “Good. Because I already told my parents I wasn’t coming in today.”
“Really? Why’s that?” I nipped at her ear as my hands slid down her back and gripped her ass, squeezing and massaging the rounded cheeks.
“I kinda felt like a day off with my fiancé.” She placed her hand between us and shifted the ring from side to side. “You know, the ones where you don’t leave the bed.”
I chuckled deep in my throat. “I like the way you think.”
“I knew you would.”
As the storm raged outside, the sheets of rain following, lightning and thunder crashing through the sky, we made love over and over, only stopping once for food.
I tossed her around the bed, taking her in every way I could think of, my dick exploring and mastering new tricks along the way.
“How did I get so lucky?” I asked her before taking one of her nipples in my mouth. My tongue swirled around the taut skin, and I took it between my teeth, rolling the tender nipple gently. Carina moaned softly and arched her back, filling my mouth with more of her curvy tits.
“I’m the lucky one,” she said between moans.
As we slurped down bowls of cereal a couple of hours later, before feasting on each other once more, I said, “I think I’m getting used to the idea of a big family. Dinner the other night was fun.”
“Wow.” Milk dribbled down her chin. “Really?”
I laughed and touched my chin. “You’ve got some milk there.”
She quickly wiped it away before dissolving into a fit of uncontrollable giggles. “You threw me off and made me spill my milk.”
“Yep, that’s exactly what happened.”
“I never thought I’d hear you say you liked a big family.”
“I never did either. I love you, wildflower.”
“I love you, always and forever.”
THE END
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