Page 92 of Forbidden Heroes

I graduated summa cum laude and have met a lot of people in the last few years.

After the incident with my father and moving in with Maddox, I got to meet all of Maddox’s friends, who quickly became my friends. I got to meet Rosalee’s beau who turned out to be the related to the founder. Imagine my shock when he and Rosa hired me as their personal lawyer the day I graduated. It’s an understatement to say I’ve been blessed.

I have so much to be thankful for and silver linings abound in my life. Truth be told, I have so many that I have to really force myself to think of the bad. And maybe it took trudging through the swamp of life to get to this moment. I don’t know. I’m no goddess with an all-knowing power despite what Maddox professes. I’m just a girl with a full heart.

I dig my toes into the sand and soak in the beautiful rays of warm sunshine on my skin and let my mind wander a moment longer. I drink in the view of my husband walking up the beach wearing low-slung trunks and a wicked smile. Three years since he got down on one knee and asked me to be his forever, and I still lose my breath when he looks my way.

He comes to stand over me and falls to his knees, taking my lips in a crushing kiss.

He pulls away, pressing his forehead against mine. “Now that I’ve taken you mountain climbing and snorkeling and have fed you chocolate under the northern lights, how about we check one more thing off your list of adventures?”

I dig my fingers into his hair and ruffle the long ends. “Oh yeah, what do you have in mind, professor?”

He closes and takes the laptop from me to lay me back in the sand. Leaning forward, he teases my sun-warm skin just above my navel with the tip of his tongue and a dark glint in his eyes.

“A baby.”

My eyebrows raise in surprise. “You want the pinnacle of our vacation to be getting me pregnant?” We haven’t taken a real vacation outside of the US since our honeymoon, so he surprised me with a trip to a private island with crystal clear waters and a little cabana and all the beach to ourselves. After our first time didn’t result in me getting pregnant, we decided to wait until the time was right. And it seems like that time might be now.

His lips peel back in a devilish smile that has my heart swooning for the man all over again. “Can you think of something better? I’m ready to ditch the rubbers and take my wife bare again. See my cum drip from that beautiful hole. What do you say?”

“No, I can’t think of anything better. Not in a million years, Maddox Spencer.”

A couple of pulls and tugs and the sides of my bikini bottom and top fall away. Sunlight glints off the new piercings adorning my nipples with sparkling rubies. A wedding gift for him and one I had no idea I would love just as much as he does. I guess that made it a gift for the two of us.

“Give me a baby, lover. Let’s make a family,” I husk, dragging him up my body and wrapping my bare thighs around his waist.

“I intend to.”

I groan when the heavy weight of his cock springs free from his swimming trunks. Seeing him hard and ready has me wet instantly.

I take him in my hand and guide him to my entrance. I arch off the sand when he takes me in a single thrust and I’m that student all over again, greedy and hungry for the man I love.

He slips an arm around me and holds me close to his heart. I can feel our breathing fall into sync like everything else about us.

“Ah sugar, so tight for me. Wrap your legs around me and hold on,” he orders in a masculine husk. Then he kisses me with all the love in the world, and I give it right back, knowing I’m right where I belong. I’m with my family, my protector and anything in the world is possible with the right people by your side.

I’m home.

Epilogue

Amber, Twelve years later…

As it turns out, getting pregnant nine years ago was the second-best decision of my life. I adore being a mom just as much as I do a wife. Marrying my professor was the first. But our happily-ever-after doesn’t end there. We had three more children after Maddox Jr was born. The last two were twins. A boy and a girl. Oh man did our lives change then. Having kids ranging from nine to five has kept me and Maddox busy and then some. On top of all the work we have it took a while to learn how to balance all the chaos. We’re still learning but it’s all good. I wouldn’t mind a little more quality alone time with my husband, though.

Good thing we have great friends for support. When the founder of my university and his wife hired me as their personal lawyer, I never saw it becoming my full career or that they both would become such dear friends to me and Maddox. I might have gone to college with Rosalee, but the time we shared during those difficult days were limited. Now I can’t see my life without her or her husband.

“Mommy, can you play dolls with me?”

I look down at the raven-haired beauty I fell in love with the second the doctors laid her across my chest and tap her nose. It’s summer time, the last one before all our children are off to school. We’ve rounded up all our friends for a backyard pool party and I’m clinging to each hour trying to make the most of it.

“Let me finish all the prep work for the food and then I’ll make sure to bring my own dolls for a pool party okay, sweetie? How about you wait until Aunt Rosa and Aunt Emberly are here and see if they want to help get your dolls in their bathing suits.”

“Hey, did I hear my name?” A blonde head pops around the corner.

“Aunt Rosa!” My baby girl squills all grins, running for my best friend’s open arms as she walks into the kitchen. Rosalee picks her up and twirls the happy little girl in her arms. “Hey I have an idea, how about all of us go get some ice cream so mommy and daddy can finish up getting everything ready for the party?” Rosa throws me a wink. I’ve been going full steam on helping her set up foundations across the globe for six months solid. Good work. Humble work, but a little down time for just me and a glass of wine would be much appreciated. Gideon slides in beside his wife with our other friends, Samuel, Elliot and their shared wife, Emberly, in tow.

“Hey guys! You made it!”

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