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“You’ve given me such strength that I do believe that I can do that.” She looked in the living room and then back at him. “You will have children with my daughter, won’t you? I’d so love to have a little one or two running around.”

“That will be up to Mac. Like she said, it’s her body and her rules. I’m so glad that everyone isn’t thinking that we’ve not known one another long enough to be talking about that but I do love her with all my heart.” He handed her a small box that he’d picked up today before coming here. “Whatdo you think? Do you think she’ll like it? If not, I can get her something else, but it reminded me of her in some way.”

“Oh, she’ll love it. Are you going to do it today?” Axel told her that as soon as everyone was seated to eat, he was going to pop the question to her. “Good for you. That’ll make the old goat pissed off more than anything. Oh, did you see that Chuck is avoiding her. I don’t know what happened between the two of them but when she was here last, him being just a little baby, he would scream every time she came near him. I think she pinched him or something.”

“She’ll never do that again. Not so long as I’m around.” When everyone was seated, he looked at Dani and kissed her on the cheek. Then, standing up, he turned to Mac. She looked a little confused until he got down on one knee. “Mackenize Booth, will you be my wife. Be my life. I love you so much now that it’s hard to imagine my life without you being at my side. Or even in our bed in the morning.”

“Yes. But I didn’t think we were that far yet.” He kissed her, and she laughed. “Well, I guess we are. Yes, I’ll marry you, Axel Hathaway.”

“What’s going on in here? Get up off the floor, you moron. What do you think you’re doing?” Axel told the old woman that he’d just proposed to Mac. “What a ridiculous name for a woman. And you’ll take that back right now, you hear me? I told you, you’ll not be getting married unless it’s over my dead body. I told you to get up, and I’m not kidding around right now.”

He stood up and looked at Ms. Booth. “I’m not taking anything back, and I plan on marrying Mac as soon as it can be arranged. If she wants, we’ll have fifty kids, too. I have a nice big house that we can fill up over and over again.” She put her hand over her heart and Axel couldn’t hold back on his next question. “Is this the part where it’s over your dead body now?”

“Why the nerve of you. I came here to talk business with my son and you idiots are making it difficult. So there will be no lingering after that stupid meal. Once you’re finished, I expect each of you to leave here to let me get to my business.” When Dani stood up, she looked about as nervous as he’d been when proposing to Mac. “What do you think you’re going to say to me. The only thing that I will allow you to open your mouth for will be to tell me that you’ve finally come to your senses and are leaving—”

“Get out.” Hanna asked her what she’d said. “I said to get out. Get out of my house right now before I call the police. You’ve had your say about everything that didn’t concern you. Now you’re to get out of here before I toss you out on that fat ass of yours.” She seemed to be gaining strength when Charlie put his hand over hers and laced his fingers with them. “You’ve been nothing but a royal pain in the backside since I married Charlie. Well, I’ve had enough. You’ll no longer be welcome here for as long as this is my home with Charlie, nor will we seek out your opinions when it’s none of your business. Get out now.”

“I want to talk to my son, you harpy.” Dani laughed and then told her that she wasn’t getting any more money from them. Ms. Booth looked at her son. “What do you think your father would say if he were to hear the way everyone is speaking to me?”

“What would Dad say? He’d probably laugh at you and then tell me it’s about time that I’ve gotten some balls.” The hand to the heart again. “Yes, that’s what I said, gotten some balls. And I do believe that my wife, my wonderful wife, told you to get out.” Without looking at him, Charlie spoke to him. “Axel, if you’d not mind calling the police, I’d appreciate it.”

“I’ll take care of this, Charlie. I’m a cop. I’ll gladly walk her out of your home.” Penrod stood up and drew his gun out from under his shirt. “We can do this the easy way or the hard one—I’m hoping for the hard way—so you’d best be getting out of here before I take you in for simply being a fucking bitch.” She left on her own two feet, telling them all that she’d be back.

When she was out the door on her own, everyone in the house, including the staff, laughed. It was a good laugh, too. However, he had a feeling this wasn’t the last time they’d tangle with Hanna Booth. She was stupid, and stupid people didn’t give up so easily.

Chapter 5

When her grandmother left, there was still some tension in the air but not like before. It was Axel’s father that stood up, clapping his hands. Then the others joined him. Dad was slightly embarrassed, but it was her mom who seemed to understand what was going on right now. As soon as she went to the kitchen, each of them could hear her yelling ‘yes,’and Mac was prouder of her in that moment than she’d ever been all her life. It was her mom that got balls, not her day and she was thrilled beyond words.

After dinner and the clean-up was taken care of, they sat in the living room to talk. Milly wasn’t feeling well, the baby, she said, and Charles and she went up to the bedroom they used when visiting. Chuck had fallen asleep hours ago and seemed just fine for laying on his dad’s shoulder when they left the room. She hadn’t realized it was so late until she heard the grandfather clock chiming that it was eleven o’clock. She had things to get going in the morning.

She did walk Axel out to his car. However, when the motion light went off, he pulled her into his arms and kissed her while pressing her against his car. Christ, he was hard as a stone, and his hands were all over her.

“I want you. I’ve never wanted to be buried so deep inside of a woman in all my life. I want to feel you come around me, over me. I want to feel your body milk mine until I’m so crazed with need that I can’t see straight. I want to see you come Mac, taste you when you do.”

Mac realized that he had taken them deeper into the shadows than they’d been before when he pressed her against the garage. It really was dark, but for the moonlight that was barely showing. When he slid her down his body, she could feel his cock pressing hard against her belly. Need, the need to feel him inside of her, raced through her. Axel gently pressed her back against the wall all the while kissing her, touching her.

Axel had his shirt unbuttoned from her before she realized it, and her bra pushed down over her swollen breasts. They were tender, so needy that she could barely stand to touch them. But what he was doing was sensual and gentle. And made her realize that it was because of him that she was like this, and she was thrilled that he was going to make her feel better in a few minutes.

“Mac, watch me suckle at your breast. I want to see your eyes glaze when you start to come. Watch me, baby.” She did, not even caring how demanding his words were. “Oh, baby, I love you.”

Mac leaned back and watched as he traced his tongue all along the areola, never touching the sensitive tip. His eyes never leaving hers, he flicked his tongue quickly over her nipple once, twice more before he covered it with his hot mouth and sucked.

Mac cried out from the feel of him rolling her nipple in his mouth and against the roof of the heat of his mouth. She felt him shift her around a bit, and then his hand was touching her between her legs through the material of her panties she moaned. Mac couldn’t decide which felt better, his hand or his mouth, and soon it didn’t matter. Her entire body was a live wire, waiting, waiting, and wanting something that she knew only he could give her.

“Please, I need…please help me, Axel.” She nearly cried out again when he pulled his mouth away from her breast. She thought that he was stopping and silently begged him to not stop.

Axel was moving down her, down her body with his back to the opening in the driveway that if anyone were to come out, they’d only see him, not her too. It didn’t take her long to figure out where he was going and what he was going to do. Before she could protest and tell him to stop, he had his mouth covering her clit, and she came apart, shattering into a million stars in the dark sky.

As he stood, she sat up and reached for him. She wanted to taste him as he had her. Fumbling with his buckle, she touched him as soon as he was free. His cock, hard and hot in her hands as sheguided him to her mouth. Licking the tiny drop at the end of his shaft, she moaned at the taste.

Axel was hot and spicy, hard and smooth. Opening her mouth around him, he surged forward and bumped the back of her throat, causing her to gag slightly. He pulled back and cupped the back of her head, and gently showed her how to take him. Wrapping her hand around the inches she couldn’t take in her mouth, she slid her hand up and down him.

“Mac, please…I’m so close, baby. I’m going to come.” And she felt the first hot splash of him down the back of her throat. He rocked harder and harder as he came. Reaching between her own legs, still spread wide from him, she touched herself and came with him, moaning around his cock.

Mac fell back against the wall again, spent as he slowly leaned back against the wall of the garage again. She felt euphoric and happy. She laid her head on his chest and listened as his heart slowed. Her mind was all fuddled and still fuzzy from what they’d done.

“I love you, Axel. I think I always have.” She felt him move beneath her. It was slight, but the way they were standing made it impossible for her not to feel it. Flushing with heat, she realized where they were and what they’d just done. Christ, she hoped the god there were no cameras here. Someone was going to get an eye full if there were.

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