Page 11 of Tangled in Tinsel

He drops a quick kiss on my mouth before he’s straining from his effort to hold back and wait on me. Seeing him like that sends me over and I feel the now-familiar pulses of my pussy contracting over and over again around his thick, hard shaft. The warmth he floods inside of me makes sure my release is prolonged as I clasp him to me not wanting this closeness, this sense of perfect, to ever stop.

When I open my eyes, it’s to find Vander looking down at me with those steely gray eyes. “I love you, Temperance.”

I gasp out loud. It’s like he read my mind. Or maybe I said it when I was at the height of my ecstasy and now, he thinks he has to say it too. I push at his shoulders but he doesn’t move an inch. “Why did you say that? Is it because you think you have to? Because I love you.”

“You love me?” He didn’t know? How could he not tell?

“You love me, little one?” He lowers his head and kisses me softly. “Tell me you love me too.”

He says it with his mouth still on mine and it sounds like a plea instead of a command. And the reality of what he said hits me. He loves me! He loves me!

“Of course I love you, Vander. I’ve never felt this way about anyone…ever. Just you.”

“Say it again.” He gives me the biggest smile.

“You first.”

“I fucking love you, Temperance. I want you to be my wife. To let me take care of you for the rest of your life. I want you every way a man can want a woman. You are the world…my world.”

“You want me to marry you?” This can’t be happening. It’s too good to be true…right?

“Fuck yes and to have my babies.”

His words have my eyes widening and my heart thumping, “Holy bedsheets, Batman! We didn’t use anything. We never…um, you know.”

“And we never will if I have anything to say about it. I love feeling you when I take you raw. I’ve never done it before. You’re the only woman who will ever hold my seed, my child, in her womb.”

“Oh…oh wow! That’s…really sexy!”

He laughs before nosing my chin out of the way so he can kiss down my neck. “Tell me you love me, little one. Tell me you want to be with me too, that you feel the same way I do.”

“Oh yeah. I definitely feel the same. I…I love you so much it’s terrifying but also exciting and thrilling.”

“Spend the rest of your life with me, Temperance. I need you. I need you.”

I wrap my arms around him and hold him tight. “I need you, Vander. You are everything I never thought I would have. I love you. I love you. I love you.”

He starts kissing me, moving slowly down my body, as I say the words. Both of us are very ready to love one another yet again. And that is the way I want to spend my life…tangled up in Vander. Nothing beats having this big strong wall of a man wrapped tightly around me like Christmas tinsel wrapped around a tree.

Epilogue

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Tempi

About One Year Later

Tonight is the night of the big New Year’s Eve Ball Drop and me and Vander are hosting it at our place in the city. Typically we wouldn’t have things like the Governor’s New Year’s Eve party at our condo but this year has been so crazy for Lyric and Cyrus that they couldn’t possibly handle another thing. So me and Vander stepped in.

This night will mark just one of two nights I have been away from my little baby for longer than an hour or two. I love being a mom and looking into the eyes of our little girl just makes my heart swell with love and happiness. Right now she is with my mom and Lyric’s dad. Tonight is one of the first times Lyric’s brother will be at the party. He’s helped so much in getting everything ready and running back and forth between Cyrus and Vander doing little jobs here and there. He’s such a good kid.

“T minus eight hours to go before we start a brand new year! Are you excited Tempi?”

I ruffle his hair as he comes up to give me a hug. He loves all the new babies running around and the fact his sister is pregnant again. He keeps asking me if we’re going to have another. He’ll be happy to find out that we are but we’re waiting to tell everyone until after the party.

“I sure am, buddy. Is your sister doing okay?”

“Yeah. She’s taking a nap before she has to dress for the party. Vander says he needs to see you in the kitchen.”

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