He reaches into his back pocket, pulls out a small cloth bag. He upends it on the bed beside us.
It’s a slender golden ring, nothing fancy, no gems or anything. I stare at it, uncomprehending.
Until he lifts it and looks me in the eye. “I know it’s early to ask you to marry me. I mean, maybe I’m jumping the gun here, and in any case you’re going to college and seeing the world or whatever else it is on your bucket list, but… until then… You said you’d be mine. So… be mine, Octavia Watson?”
Oh my God. I’m crying again. This is ridiculous. I nod, though, and keep nodding, laughing through my tears, and raise my hand for him to put the ring on my finger.
Then he lifts my hand and kisses my palm. His eyes are smiling when he looks up. “My girl. Tell me what you want.”
No hesitation. “I want you inside me, Matt Hansen,” I whisper. “Now.”
“Bossy.” But he’s grinning. “All fire.”
He lays me down on the bed, pushes my legs apart and enters me again, thrusting in all the way. We both moan as he sinks in. He bends my knees, pulls them up to his chest, and thrusts deeper.
I choke on the air in my lungs, lift my hips right off the bed, clenching around his cock. It feels so good. He feels so good, everywhere, on top of me, inside me.
He bends over me, bracing his elbows on the bed on either side of my head, and I lift my hand to shove shiny hair out of his face. Need to see his eyes.
He kisses me and starts thrusting. He fucks me slowly at first, a thoughtful crease between his brows, taking his time, making me incoherent with arousal. My hand is still on his face, tracing its lines, his brows, his eyes, his cheekbones.
“I love you,” I murmur.
A groan rumbles up his chest, and he starts pounding into me in earnest, his hips rocking, his thighs tensing. “God, need you…”
It doesn’t take long to tip me over the edge. I’m clawing at his strong back with my other hand, the pressure in my core unbearable, his cock sending off sparks of brilliance through my body – and the next moment I’m crying out, bursting into pleasure, my body convulsing with the force of it.
He bites back a curse, thrusts erratically into me, fast and hard, and then his powerful body presses into mine, stilling, a shudder running through him. He buries his face in the crook of my neck and moans brokenly.
It takes me a moment to recognize my name, repeated over and over again.
My hand is still in his hair, the gold band on my finger gleaming among the shiny dark strands. I stare at it.
It’s a promise, an oath exchanged between us. No matter comes in the days, and months, and years to come, it’s one I intend to keep.
Thank you for reading!
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