He grins, looking over his shoulder at the kitchen. “Nikita promised to keep Aesha busy.”
Heat floods my cheeks. “You’re crazy.”
“Just a quickie,” he says, his voice rough and low as he drags me into the library next to the living room. He hauls the night dress I’m wearing over my hips and pins me against the wall. “What kind of birthday would it be without sex?”
Laughing, I nod, already dripping wet. He’s been gone most of the day and I didn’t realize how much I missed him until I saw him standing there with his surprise.
Maxim trails kisses along my neck, his warm lips closing over my pulse and sucking on it until it’s skipping one beat after the next. I keep my hands on his shoulders, holding myself steady as he slips down his black slacks, pulling out his hard cock. The head butts against me as his mouth returns to mine.
He cradles me like I’m the most important thing in the world as he inches inside me, giving me enough time to adjust without the devotion he normally shows to my pussy before entering it. We break away from each other breathless as he thrusts faster, driving deeper into me. I bite back the moans, my heart swelling to the point of almost bursting with how much love I have for him.
It takes no time at all for him to push me to the edge of an orgasm, his hands trailing over the body he’s spent hours memorizing. As I come, I press a kiss to the side of his neck where our anniversary is tattooed. He got it inked over the vein and at the time I thought he was insane. Until he told me that the anniversary was like the blood flowing through his veins. If anything were to happen to us, he didn’t think that he would be able to continue living.
To this day it’s still one of the sweetest things he’s ever done for me, even though the man doesn’t have a romantic bone in his body.
“Happy birthday, Pearl. I love you.” He kisses me again as he finishes. His arms wrap around me, keeping me pressed against his body as our hearts beat as one.
“I love you too.”
When a throat clears in the other room, he puts me down, his gaze still locked on mine, looking happier than I’ve ever seen him before.
Nikita comes back into the living room with Aesha, and plates of cake in their hands.
Aesha winks at me. “The library, huh? Come on, cake is here. I hope this is the best birthday you’ve ever had.”
“It is.”
As I sit down in the living room, digging into the delicious cake, I know that this is only the start of the most beautiful years of my life. I have my best friend and family surrounding me, and in the last several months the love Maxim and I share has only grown.
We may be hard to love at times, and our relationship can be rocky when we get too stubborn or push too hard, but I know I’ve found my perfect match in him.
And when things get too difficult, we just reset to our day one again.
*****
THE END