And I love him right back.
Hopelessly.
“I meanyou, Reed.” I smile. “The man I barely tolerated when he visited my boss at work. Who is now the man I can’t imagine living without. I love you more than ever.”
His smile lights up his entire face. He really is ridiculously handsome. Some days, I stare at him and wonder if the universe knew what it was doing when it created him. When it placed him on this earth, not only looking devastatingly beautiful on the outside, but having a heart and soul that match on the inside.
He’s so much more than I ever imagined.
“Harls.”
He catches my lips in another knee-weakening kiss, and I pull him to me, never wanting to let go. He moans as I kiss him back deeply, sliding my tongue into his mouth and losing myself in him. He feels so good in my arms. So tall, broad, and strong.
He thinks I was the one who freed him from the trap of his past. But he freed me too. He freed me from the fear of vulnerability, from believing in someone and placing your trust in them. All the lies and cheating I was surrounded by. The ugliness in people that I saw every night I worked for the honey trap agency. The ugliness that led to Brett’s injury. Reed freed me from that. He showed me how to open myself up to vulnerability and hurt.
Because that’s when you can truly love with nothing holding you back.
He did all that.
It may have been fake in the beginning. But that never was. That was always true. And if I’m honest with myself, I think the rest of it was. My heart knew it was real, even if my head took some catching up.
“I love you, Reed Walker,” I say again as he draws back to look at me.
“I love you too, Mrs. Walker.”
“Unofficial Mrs. Walker.” I bite my lip as I look at him. He’s called me Mrs. Walker from time to time ever since I moved into his apartment.
And it’s felt… right.
“Not for long, Angel,” he says softly, stroking his hands through my hair as he gazes at me. “I’m getting a ring on that finger before you have a chance to change your mind. You’re mine, and I want you trapped with me forever.”
“It doesn’t sound much like a trap.”
“Really?” He arches a perfect brown brow at me.
“Uh-huh.” I place my hands over his chest so I can feel his heart beating beneath my palms. “It sounds more like paradise to me.”
He smiles at me, and I smile back at him, inhaling the scent that is so uniquely him.
Adventure and home.
Adventure for our future together, and everything we will do.
And home because, well, because my heart is telling me so.
Reed is my home. Wherever he is, it’s where I want to be.
He willalwayshave my vote.
Chapter forty-three
Harley
Extra Epilogue - Two weeks later
“Jesus,Harls.You’resofucking wet.”
I moan, arching my ass up into the air and pushing backward as Reed’s fingers slip inside me again.