Page 103 of Because of Liam

Epilogue

Four Years Later

I can’t believewe’re done with school. Well, I’m done. For a while at least. I’ll hold off on getting a PhD for a couple of years. Liam starts the second year of med school in the fall. I’m so proud of him. He finished undergrad in three years all the while holding a perfect 4.0.

I have a job waiting for me in the clinic I have worked in for the past six years and to no one’s surprise, Liam never moved out. This roommate thing works well for us. I love waking up with him wrapped around me, especially in winter. The man is like a furnace. Who needs heat when I have Liam?

He’s leaving a trail of kisses on my back and shoulders.

“What are thinking about?” he asks.

“About graduation. I can’t believe I’m done with college.”

“I’m so proud of you. You looked hot in your graduation gown.” Liam turns me over, so I’m on my back now. He settles on top of me, his naked skin heating up mine. We’re both naked. I don’t think I have slept in PJs more than a handful of nights since he moved in. The man likes to sleep naked and demands I do the same. I secretly love it. And he probably knows I do too.

“I kept picturing you naked under that gown and imagining no one but me knew about it.” The smile he gives me should be illegal in all fifty states.

“Perv!” I smack his shoulder and run my fingers through his much shorter hair now. I kind of miss the long locks, but Liam cut it shorter when he started med school. He said he needed to look like a doctor and not a hot mess. I told him he was a hot mess I liked to fuck. That bought me another two weeks with the long hair. But I get it, his need to look professional, whatever that means. So, it’s short, but not so short I can’t still grab it. Liam loves it when I grab at his hair.

“I got a video of you and Skye walking. Well, you walking and Skye wobbling. Logan was freaking out the whole time, afraid she would trip on the stairs and fall.”

I giggle. “I know. He begged me to stay close to her and make sure she didn’t trip. You’d think she was about to give birth and not three weeks away from her due date.”

“She does look like she could tip over any minute with that huge belly. Logan is half terrified and half euphoric about being a dad.”

There’s a touch of longing in his voice. I pull his face to mine and kiss him. This is one of the things we never talk about. The future. It’s always been one day at a time. It works for us, but sometimes I wonder.

All thoughts vanish when Liam deepens the kiss, taking it to another level, letting me know of his intentions for the next hour. His lips whisper silent promises into tiny kisses all over my face, neck, and shoulders. He lowers his head and finds my breasts.

Touching each other, kissing, tasting—this never gets old. Each time is better than the last. Every time he touches me, my skin responds. My body thrums with unreleased energy.

Liam is taking his time with me, but I’m impatient and I want him now. I tug at his hair and pull his head from his favorite place in my body.

“Come up here, Liam. I want you inside of me.”

He complies.

“I’m drunk on the taste of you.”

He enters me and I can’t help the sounds that leave me. I moan.

His lips find mine and he kisses with everything he has. His hips move against mine. Ripples of pleasure dance on my skin. I’m simultaneously aware of every inch of my body and floating in the air, outside of myself.

Liam shifts on top of me and reaches for something on the side of the bed. I open my eyes in question. He moves inside me a few more times and stills.

“You feel so good all around me, River. So hot and soft. I think I could spend the rest of my life inside of you. I want the next one hundred years with your taste in my mouth and my dick in your pussy,” he says.

“I love you and I love the way you feel inside me. All eight inches of you, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to spend the next one hundred years inside me,” I joke.

He kisses me and smiles.

“You wanna bet?” he says.

Then he holds up a ring.

“River, I love you. And I want to spend as much time as possible with you just like this. I want to be so deep inside of you, inside of your heart, inside of your mind, inside of your soul, that nothing and no one can ever come between us. Please say yes. Please let me be the one holding you for the rest of our lives.”

I glance at the ring and back at Liam and then at the ring again. It’s beautiful. A center stone is surrounded by two smaller ones, set in white gold.

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