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THE LEAST SUNSHINIEST ANNOUNCEMENT

Goldie

Tears fall to my temple and dissolve into the cotton of my pillowcase.

I’ve never been so overwhelmed.

“Baby.” I feel his body tense around me. He was starting to slip out but not anymore. He presses back into me possessively. The fact that he’s hard again after what we just did is a delicious promise for my future. “If you don’t tell me what you’re thinking right fucking now, I might tear down the farmhouse.”

I bring my fingers up and thread them through his over the back of his hand that’s wrapped around my neck.

Who knew that could feel so good.

I swallow, and I can tell he feels it.

He’s about to make more demands about my state of mind, but I speak first.

And when I do, the words come out in a rush. “I loveyou.”

He freezes.

“I don’t know how it happened so fast. You’re a force, and I’m no match. I can’t help but love you.”

All of a sudden, his chest starts to move against my back.

“King.” I gasp his name. “Are you laughing at my declaration of love?”

He wraps me up tighter and presses his lips to my shoulder before his teeth nip my skin.

“Ouch! I just told you I love you and you laugh and bite me?”

He actually pulls out, which is another not-great sign that I don’t appreciate.

I’m on my back and his heavy bulk presses me into the bed. I frown up at the jovial expression that I’m getting used to on him.

One more thing to secretly love.

Or, not so secretly since I just declared it.

And he laughed at me.

I open my mouth to complain when he cuts me off.

With his lips and his tongue. He takes my breath away.

Again.

His forehead tips to mine. “We’re a pair. That was the least sunshiniest announcement of love. Probably one I deserve after everything I’ve put you through. Just so you know, I refuse to let you take it back. You’re fucking stuck with my broody ass forever.”

I drag a foot up the back of his thick thigh. “I guess I have a lifetime to work on it.”

“I’m going to need another condom,” he announces. “Maybe two. And when we get home, we need to figure something else out or leave it up to chance, because I need to take you bare.”

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LADY BALLS

King

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