Page 143 of Vows In Corruption

I press my mouth to her hair. “I’m going to need more details than that.”

She lets out a sigh, but she answers. “Even though I was just strapped to a chair, my body feels like it was put through the wringer. That and my head still feels cloudy.”

I wish I could give her something for that, but I have no idea what the fuckers gave her or how much.

“It will go away soon, I promise.”

She hums against my chest and doesn’t say anything or even move for the next few minutes so I start to think that she fell asleep.

But of course, that isn’t the case.

“Bennett?” She says, lifting her head up from where it rest against my chest and looks up at me.

I can tell that she has something on her mind. “What is it?”

She almost looks scared when she talks. “Marrying you was the best decision I’ve ever made.”

Her word make my heart beat faster.

I give her a smile. “Why are you telling me this?”

“Because that’s what I wanted to tell you while I was strapped to that chair. That and that I loved you. And since I already told you those words in the car last night, I wanted to give you the rest.”

I place my hands on either side of her face.

“Choosing you as my wife was the best decision I ever made.” I give her a chaste kiss.

The way she smile at me when u pull away is one that will be in my mind forever.

“You never had any doubts?” She asks, as if she wants to believe me but something is telling her not to.

“I did. Last night some even tried to slip through. I kept thinking that if I hadn’t married you then, you wouldn’t have been put in the situation that you were in. That if I hadn’t married you, then you would have been safe. But the more I thought about it, the more I got angry with myself. I hated thinking that because when it came to you, there weren’t any regrets and there never will be.”

Her lips land on mine fort a soft kiss.

“There is also something else that I wanted to tell you. I thought about it the whole way home but I didn’t know how to bring it up.”

“What is it?”

Tears spring into her eyes as she gets ready to talk. “I don’t want this arrangement to end at the two year mark like we agreed. In such a short time, you made me feel like I was actually worthy of something. You made me feel like safe and wanted and I don’t want to let that go. I don’t want to let you go. I want to stay a Lane and be a part of this family and go to work with you every day and go on trips and everything that comes with being your wife. I don’t want the two year mark to come and have to walk away from that. I don’t know if I’d be able to. It would break me and I would never recover.”

She wouldn’t be the only that would break if we ended this when we said we would.

My whole fucking life would be shattered into a million pieces and there will be no way to ever put it back together.

I need Ella in my life. Now and until the end of eternity.

“Baby,” I say looking into her eyes. “Two years with you would never be enough for me. And when the time came the only way one of us would walk away would be if we wanted to. But if you don’t want to and neither do I, then we can throw that agreement out the fucking window.”

“Really?”

“Really. You’ve been mine since day one, Ella Vincent. I just hope you are ready to belong to me forever.”

Her hands land on the side of my face. “I’m ready.”

“Thank fuck.”

My lips smash themselves to hers with urgency. Even though my lips were on hers a few minutes ago, it feels like I haven’t kissed her in forever.

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