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“The sweetest noise I’ve ever heard,” I growl into her neck, my hips pulling back to thrust in again. “You’re such a good wife, sweetheart,” I gather a fistful of hair for leverage. Georgia’s pretty lips part, her eyelids falling halfway as she accommodates my size. “Such a pretty wife. Such a trusting wife.”

I pull her other leg over my shoulder, and as I bury myself in her again and again, her body tightens. Her heels dig into my back, sharp pricks of pain winding my desire higher. Around my cock, her pussy flexes. She’s close again. Fire races through my blood and I have to fight not to let my head fall back with pleasure. I’mdriving into her now, finding a fast rhythm. Punishing her for being so perfect, for changing my life, for making me want everything with her.

“That’s so fucking good, Georgia.” My voice is a low, gritty rasp. “I’m so close. You’re a goddamned dream. Does my pretty little wife like me fucking her hard like this?”

I feel the shiver that runs through her. Her eyes meet mine, hazy and pupils wide with lust. She nods; heat pounds harder through my body.

The first flutters inside her, the way her eyes close in pleasure, the blush on her cheekbones, the sound of her moaning beneath me—the sensations blur together, pressure tightens at the base of my spine, and excruciating, incredible desire slices me into a thousand pieces.

“Fuck, I’m going to come,” I manage, breathing hard, heart pounding. “I’m going to come inside you.”

With her hair in my fist and her eyes on me, I fuck my gorgeous wife until the pleasure boils over, my balls tighten, and I release into her. Deep in my brain, everything locks into place.

I amneverletting her go. I’ll give her all the time and space she needs, but I will never give up on the woman I love.

Georgia is mine.

CHAPTER 81

GEORGIA

“A bachelorettewithout a blow-up penis in sight?” Across the table, I raise my eyebrows at Hazel. We’re finishing up our drinks after dinner. “This is your send-off. We need to make sure you have a good time.”

The guys are out having their bachelor party, but they didn’t say what they were doing.

Hazel grins. “No blow-up penises. Not my style.” Her eyes move around the table, from her sister to Darcy to Jordan to me. “This is perfect. Besides, I don’t feel like I’m marching to my grave or anything.” She shrugs, a soft smile pulling up on her mouth. “I’m excited to get married.”

Jordan raises her eyebrows, skeptical.

“Before Rory, I didn’t think I’d want to.” Hazel looks down at her drink, a funny smile on her mouth. “But it’s so easy with him. The easiest thing in the world. He’s my best friend.”

My heart pangs with yearning, and even though we’ve spent every second of the past week together, even though I saw him two hours ago, I miss him.

Somehow, this man I used to hate has become one of the most important people in my life.

Six more months,my brain whispers. I don’t know why I said that. I don’t know why I’m prolonging something that’ll hurt me either way.

Maybe it’s because I’m in love with him. I think about things ending with Alexei and something crumples in my chest.

If he was traded, or retired and got a job in another city, maybe as an analyst or in player development on another team, I’d want to go with him. I couldn’t, though, because I have the hospital program, but I’d want to.

That alone is cause for concern. Am I repeating the past? Am I handing over everything for a man again?

I was never in love with Liam, though. I thought I was, but we never laughed together the way Alexei and I do. I never felt the deep sense of comfort and peace that I feel with my husband. And with Alexei, I never feel the need to make myself small and invisible. To lessen my accomplishments.

He could crush me, if he doesn’t feel the same way. He could hurt me so much worse than Liam did.

Pippa gives me a soft smile. “Are you two having a nice honeymoon?”

My face warms. “Yes. We love it here.”

The mountain town is small, charming, and quaint, with crisp, fresh air, sparkling lights in the trees, and vintage-looking streetlamps, like something out of a Christmas movie. Pippa mentioned they film a lot of Hallmark movies here. Our suite overlooks the Silver Falls lake, frozen solid, surrounded by snow-covered mountains.

“What have you two been doing?” Hazel asks.

We haven’t left the suite once.

All we do is have sex, sleep, order room service while watchingThe Vampire Diaries,to which Alexei is addicted but won’t admit it, before we’re making out and undressing each other again. We can’t keep our hands off each other. Clothes are unnecessary when you have a big warm enforcer to cuddle with.

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