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Tanner didn’t have to be asked twice.

He thrust into me, burying himself to the hilt, and I cried out. My body stretched to accommodate his size, an incredible mix of fullness and pleasure. I shivered and trembled around the sizeof him. His eyes stayed locked on mine as he stilled, completely buried inside me, his fingers stroking fingers through my hair.

“I love you,” he said. “You have no idea how much.”

“I love you, too,” I gasped, struggling to find my breath.

He planted a kiss on my lips before he started to move, pumping into me in a steady rhythm, moving in and out. I gasped and moaned as he fucked me.

This was exactly what I’d needed.

His body on mine, his lips, his cock.

Us together, bodies melded so that we were one. It had been too long. We might have been together lately, but what we’d had back then, when there had been no reason not to give our all to each other, had been missing something when we’d reconnected. I understood why now. And now that the slate was clean and we were starting over, everything we’d had before was here.

Everything about this moment was perfect.

Tanner groaned, and he sped up, fucking me harder and faster. He grunted, and his muscles rippled as he held himself up over me. His arms bulged with the effort. I dug my fingers into his biceps, clinging to him.

It felt like I was going to shatter. Every thrust was another push to the edge of a cliff. Soon, I was going to fall.

I squeezed around him, and Tanner groaned.

“Don’t,” he panted. “I won’t last.”

“Come with me,” I breathed.

And I fell. My orgasm ripped through me, and I cried out. It was loud and uncontrolled and the most incredible feeling. My body quaked and convulsed, and I clung to Tanner for dear life. He fucked me hard and fast, and finally, just before my orgasm started subsiding, he spilled into me, too. We trembled, coming together, so close that we were one body, fused together by thefact that we’d overcome our past, that we’d found each other again.

When he was finished, he collapsed onto the bed next to me and pulled me against him. We both struggled for breath.

“Holy fuck,” he breathed.

“Yeah,” I agreed.

“Are you sure you’re okay? You’re not in pain?” He touched his finger to my head and then to my belly.

I nodded and smiled at him. “I’m fine. I promise.”

He pulled me closer to him and kissed me before I put my head on his chest, listening to the sound of his heart and the way it beat for me.

19

TANNER

The winter in Silver Ridge was harsh, the cold biting and relentless. The wind often howled through the trees, and I used to relate to the melancholy of it.

But this year, it felt different. This year, I had Rae with me. Not just around but right here in the cabin. Right here by my side. The long, icy months seemed more bearable. With her, everything seemed brighter, warmer, happier. It had always been like that, and there were so many days where I told myself what a fool I’d been.

But my reasons were out there now. Rae knew who I was, what I’d been running from.

And she loved me anyway.

I still didn’t always believe I wasn’t a monster, but if someone like Rae could love someone like me… it had to be true.

We spent our days huddled in the warm cabin, planning our futuretogether.

The cabin, which was once a place to hide away from the world, my solitary confinement, was now filled with love and warmth and happiness.

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