Luckily, I have the best fucking woman in the world and she’s willing to give me a second chance.
“I love you, too, Jasper,” she whispers.
Then Odessa turns around and kisses me, and my heart soars. I’ve never felt so happy. I’ve never felt so complete. I’ve never felt that nothing else matters, and I am loved.
Epilogue
Odessa
I didn’t expect to find love.
Not this year.
Not at Anchored.
Not with him.
I guess that’s on me, though, huh? Life doesn’t always turn out the way we expect. Sometimes we’re thrown a curveball. Sometimes it feels like the whole world is going to explode. Sometimes it’s easy to think that nothing is going our way.
Sometimes everything seems bleak.
Then that one person walks into your life like they’ve always been there, and suddenly, things don’t seem quite as terrible.
That’s what happened with me.
That’s what happened with Jasper.
For the longest time, it seemed like I was all on my own. I struggled in every aspect of my life. There was no one to look after me, to care for me. There was no one to protect me, and part of that was my fault. I never thought I needed protecting, so I never asked for help.
Now that I have a Dom who is kind, and who is gentle, and who is entirely mine, I don’t know how I made it this long on my own.
It’s not that I can’t do things on my own, but that being able to have a life partner I can depend on is a really wonderful, incredible thing. Jasper is wonderful, and I’m so fucking lucky to be able to call him mine.
“Hey beautiful,” he rolls over and looks at me. He just smiles like we’ve got all the time in the world. Jasper stares at me like there’s nowhere he’d rather be, like no one matters quite as much as I do. Not to him.
“Hi sexy,” I reach for him, tracing his chest with my fingers, exploring him.
“Have I told you lately how perfect you are?” He smiles.
“Sweet talker,” I retort, laughing.
“You love it,” he says.
“I do.”
Jasper reaches for me and kisses me softly at first, and then harder. More and more, he kisses me, reminding me exactly what he thinks about me, reminding me that he thinks I’m the most precious thing in the world.
We may have gotten off to a rough start, and we may have made mistakes, but something tells me the future is bright.
Something tells me that when it comes to me and Jasper, we have the whole world at our fingertips.
All we have to do is trust that no matter what happens, we’re in this together.
No matter what happens, we’ll have each other.
For always.
THE END