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  “I still have it. It’s in my bag.” And I couldn’t wait to slip it back on my finger where it belonged.

  “I feel like I should buy you a new ring, baby. To mark a new chapter in our lives.”

  “No,” I said, shaking my head emphatically. “That’s the ring you gave me when you asked me to marry you, and that’s the one I want to wear.”

  “Whatever you want.” He reached for the hem of my tank top, pulling it over my head as he backed me toward the sofa. “As long as I get to make you my wife, I don’t care.”

  “We can’t do this here,” I hissed, slapping at his hands when he reached the buttons on my jean shorts. “Your housekeeper.”

  “Didn’t I tell you I had a little guest cottage built out back for her?” He was kissing my neck while his hands worked the button and fly on my shorts. “And she doesn’t start ‘til nine. That gives us plenty of time.”

  Oh, thank God. After the morning I’d had, imagining all the things that could go wrong with my plan, I needed more than anything for him to sink inside me and remind me that nothing could ever tear us apart again.

  I tugged on his black drawstring pants as we fell back on the sofa. Clothes were flying and our hands were all over each other’s bodies while our lips were fused together, our tongues dueling amidst throaty moans.

  I grabbed his ass, whispering in his ear, “Fuck me, Pierce. Please, I need you. Now.” When I opened my legs for him it left no question, I was more than ready to take him.

  He thrust inside, pinning my legs back as he stood over me. He wasn’t gentle, but I didn’t need gentle. I needed him to pound into me, to obliterate all of my fears and anxiety and tears with every powerful thrust.

  “I was dyin’,” he said, his voice raspy as he glared at me. “Thinkin’ about what it would do to me if I lost you again.”

  I moaned, feeling the pinch of pain and pleasure that always sent me freefalling as my body protested his strength and size when he was on the raw and ragged edge, trying to deal with emotions that threatened to overwhelm him. Make-up sex had always been like that for us. After a big fight, we’d heal our wounds in the bedroom where we learned to breathe together, all over again.

  “I’m never gonna lose you,” he said, as I screamed with the force of my release while he continued driving into me like he couldn’t help himself. “You’re mine from now on. My fiancée. Soon you’ll be my wife.”

  I nodded, knowing he needed the reassurance. Our road had been a rocky one, paved with pain and heartache, but it made us stronger, and I wouldn’t have traded a single moment of it. Not even the year we’d been apart because it made us appreciate being together so much more.

  “Ah, fuuuccccckkkkk!” He tipped his head back, groaning as he spilled into me.

  His whole body shook before he finally sank to his knees and pulled me close, cradling my head in his hands. “No adrenaline rush quite like wakin’ up to the love of your life standin’ on your doorstep tellin’ you that y’all need to talk.”

  “I’m sorry,” I muttered through a laugh, wiping his damp hair off his face. “I didn’t mean to scare you. But for the record, I was scared too. I wasn’t sure how you’d feel about me wantin’ to move here to be with you.”

  “Keira,” he said, looking into my eyes. “Don’t you know that’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted?”

  My heart felt so full I could barely breathe. “I do now.”

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