Total pages in book: 17
Estimated words: 15269 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 76(@200wpm)___ 61(@250wpm)___ 51(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 15269 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 76(@200wpm)___ 61(@250wpm)___ 51(@300wpm)
“Baby, we can take all the time in the world. I’m not going anywhere. You’re my future, and in the end, I know we’ll be together.” He kisses the top of my head. “Because I’m not letting you go. Ever.”
Good. I didn’t want it any other way.
Whoever said love at first sight wasn’t a thing had obviously never met their soulmate. And mine currently had his arms wrapped around my waist, keeping me close, and was whispering how much he loved me over and over again against the shell of my ear.
Epilogue One
Bailey
Three years later
“Bailey, woman, I want you to take it easy,” Gavin said with this gruffness in his voice that had me smirking.
He was trying to be all alpha male, hear-me-roar right now, but seeing him walking out of the hospital carrying a tiny infant car seat did nothing but make him look like a huge softie.
“And stay behind me. These parking lots are busy as fuck and I don’t want to have to beat some bastard’s ass for nearly hitting my woman.”
I wanted to smile at the protectiveness in Gavin’s voice.
He reached out and grabbed hold of my hand, smoothing his thumb over my skin, pulling me in close. He carried the car seat that held our daughter, Violet. I’d been released from the hospital just a few days ago, and we headed toward his truck after the babies first doctor appointment. The truck was brand new with bells and whistles in the safety department, something Gavin demanded. He’d said he wouldn’t have any daughter or wife of his riding in something that was older than dirt. Although I knew he loved Rocco, the name he’d dubbed that rusty truck.
“I stocked up on baby supplies, and foods that will help aid in breast milk production.”
I stopped and looked at him, grinning. He glanced at me.
“What?”
I shook my head. “Nothing,” I said through my smile. “I just love you so much. You think of everything.”
He leaned down and kissed me. “I just want to make sure my woman and baby girl have everything they need.”
We continued walking to the truck. “You get that wet dog food Bear loves?”
He grunted. “You know how crusty his attitude gets if I don’t.”
I chuckled. “Well, he’s a grumpy-ass old man, just like you.” I winked up at Gavin when he growled low.
“I can carry the car seat, you know?”
He made another deep sound of disapproval. “You don’t worry about that. You don’t worry about anything, baby. I got this.”
We’d gotten married just a year after we’d gotten together that second time, after I knew I couldn’t leave him and he told me I was his.
And nothing had ever felt righter than having Gavin by my side, and now our baby girl in our lives.
Gavin wrapped his arm around me and pulled me close, the proprietary mark being made.
That made me feel so good, so loved. It also made me feel like a woman owned.
He leaned down and whispered in my ear, “I love how curvy you are after having our baby.”
Gavin put the baby in the back of the truck, triple-checked the seat belt, made sure everything was secure, and then he turned and faced me. He wrapped me in his arms a second later, and I leaned against him.
“No one can ever have what we have, Bailey. No one will ever love you the way I love you.”
I did know that. “And I love you. You’re mine just as much as I’m yours, big guy.”
I wrapped my arms around his waist. He smelled good, like fresh pine and spicy wilderness.
“I love you too,” Gavin growled out, and although to anyone else it might have seemed too gruff, maybe too aggressive, I knew he acted this way because he loved me so much.
He pulled me closer, and I rested my head on his shoulder, the little sounds of Violet making sleepy noises coming for the back of the truck. I closed my eyes and absorbed that this was my life and it was perfect.
Epilogue Two
Gavin
One year later
Even all these years later, as I looked at Bailey, all I could think about was how fucking lucky I was. I don’t know who was watching over me, but they’d given me the gift of a lifetime, and I never took it for granted. I knew how lucky I was, knew there wasn’t anything in this world that would ever compare to my wife or the family we created.
Before Bailey came into my life, I’d had no one, nothing that had meaning. Money, properties, all of that meant nothing if I was destined to die alone. But then fate brought her to my doorstep. Maybe it had been wrong to have her, to want her when she’d only been eighteen at the time. I’d been double her age, but fuck, it hadn’t been about sex. It had been about her looking into my eyes and I actually saw a future.