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There.
I come, but it’s not something that flows like warm honey. It slams into me, consuming all of me. My entire body stiffens, but if Vaughn notices, he doesn’t bother to stop or slow down in any capacity. He continues to slam into me from behind, his finger still moving against my now sensitive clit. I open my mouth to cry out, but no sound escapes my throat.
Then Vaughn buries himself deep inside me, stilling right before I feel his cock twitch and the warmth of his cum fills me. His breath slides over the shell of my ear as he moans with his release.
“Marry me, Elodie.”
Chapter Twenty-Two
ELODIE
I don’t answerhis proposal, and I can tell it bothers him. He doesn’t say anything, though, at least not immediately. Slowly, Vaughn slips from my body, moving backward before I can hear his clothes rustling again.
I can’t move, though.
I am boneless. Lying here, chest down on the bed, ass still in the air. Doing all I can to just breathe. Then, without a word, I feel my body being lifted off the bed. I expect to be set down on the soft mattress, but that’s not what happens. Instead, he sets my ass down on the edge of the tub as he sinks down to his knees in front of me.
His eyes don’t look away from mine. They’re connected. We’re connected. I can feel his cum dripping out of me, wetness against my inner thighs. I tremble as I sit on the edge of the tub, wondering what is coming next.
Vaughn reaches behind me, and then I hear the water start. “A bath after a long day of work.”
“I didn’t do much work,” I breathe.
His lips curve up into a grin, and he shifts so that his mouth is against mine. “Goldie, you came three times today alone. You worked hard.”
My mouth opens, and a gasp escapes my mouth, but before I can say anything in protest to his words, I feel his tongue slip inside my mouth, tasting me as he lifts his hands and cups my cheeks.
When we’re both breathless, he nibbles on my bottom lip, breaking the kiss before he rests his forehead against mine.
“You haven’t answered me.”
“Was it a question?” I ask.
Vaughn shifts backward slightly and stands before he steps back. Tipping my head back, I look up at him. He arches a brow, then crosses his arms over his chest as he looks down at me. A moment of silence passes between us.
“It wasn’t,” he says. “But you didn’t respond to it in any way.”
“Why?” I ask. “Why do you want me to?”
I wait for him to say something, but he doesn’t. Instead, he watches me before he moves toward me, over to the bathtub, and turns the water off. I wait for him to tell me that he loves me, but the words don’t come.
“Take a bath. I’ll make dinner.”
Without another word, he turns away from me and slips out of the room. I watch the bathroom door close behind him, and I’m left alone. Standing from the edge of the tub, I force myself to lower my body into the warm water with a moan.
The water feels amazing against my skin. This is exactly what I needed. Vaughn was right about that. I don’t know what to do, and at the same time, I’m not sure I have much of a choice in what I do.
If Vaughn wants me to marry him, then I’ll marry him. My choices are very limited. It’s not like I can just frolic around, get my own place, and live life on my own terms.
I came here with Vaughn. I accepted this, and I love him. What does it matter if he doesn’t love me back? If he’s willing to marry me… to keep me, then that’s all that should matter to me.
Even if I want love, if I yearn for it, that can come later.
This is what I wanted. I wanted him to want to keep me. I wanted to be here with him, to be his forever. And I got what I wanted. So why does it seem so… lackluster? It’s what I wanted, but it doesn’t feel like a victory of any kind.
Lying back in the tub, I close my eyes and let the warm water soak my skin, absorb into my muscles. I sigh a heavy sigh and try not to think about the future. I fail—because all I can do is think about the future.
Is this what I want? I thought it was, but now I’m not so sure. I’ve already given my money away in hopes that Vaughn would fall in love with me and want to do this exact thing—marry me, create a family with me.
