One Wild Night (Hollywood Chronicles #1)(40)
“I am a fantasy, baby. Yours. And you are always going to be mine.”
I squealed when he suddenly picked me up and tossed me on the bed. Laughter jolted free, and I pushed up onto my elbows and watched as he twisted out of his underwear, a smirk riding his face as his cock jumped free.
The man so magnificently bare.
I swallowed hard. “You are so beautiful.”
He dipped down and blazed a path of kisses across my belly, murmuring the whole time, “Not even close to being as beautiful as you.”
He dragged down my leggings and underwear. He kissed the inside of my thigh. “Beautiful….”
He pressed another at my pubic bone. “So fucking beautiful.”
Crawling onto the bed, he edged up and pressed a kiss right over my heart. “Inside—”
Then he was hovering over me, his face inches away. The man was so beautiful he stole my breath.
“And out.”
He cupped the side of my face. “All of you, Kaylee. I love you.”
“I love you,” I whispered back.
“Good.”
I gasped.
It was a gasp of shock and pleasure.
Because Pax took me.
Took me in the way only he could.
Filling me in a possessive thrust.
My fingers sank into his shoulders. “Pax.”
“Feel good, sweet girl?” He uttered the same thing to me as he’d done the first night when I’d gone home with him. Somehow then, it’d felt like a threat.
Tonight?
It felt like another promise.
That he’d spend his life keeping it.
“The best thing I’ve ever felt,” I whispered where my face was pressed to his soft flesh at the crook between his neck and shoulder, feeling the erratic thrum of his pulse against my lips.
His arm hooked around the top of my head. He drew me closer, our mouths a breath apart as he began to move.
Deep, slow, possessive.
Mind-altering strokes that marked me.
Claimed me.
“You are perfection,” he murmured back. “So tight and wet and hot. Made for me.” His mouth moved to my ear, the words whispering across the shell, sending a wave of chills sliding down my body. “Just like I was made for you.”
And our bodies moved in the dim lights that bled from the ceiling.
Shadows that became solid.
Bound.
Tied.
Us.
I stared up at him as he made love to me.
For this first time his touch tender.
I sent him the softest smile.
My own promise.
Because my one wild night had become my forever.
Epilogue
Paxton
“You just had to adopt two of them didn't you, Kaylee?”
“They're brothers. I couldn't separate them!” She bounces up and down excitedly in the sand as the two little basset hound puppies wrestle with each other at our feet. Two little puppies that are wild and curious and full of energy, and Kaylee's sweet heart just couldn't say no to leaving one of them behind.
Just what have we gotten ourselves into?
“Someone abandoned them, Pax. Who does that? These were the last two at the shelter, and I fell in love with both of them.” Her voice trails off.
“You know what I love most about you?” I pull gently on one of the leashes, guiding the little guy I've got on my leash off his brother.
“What?” She pulls the other one away, finally getting them apart.
“Your heart.” I've never met someone who is so genuinely caring about everyone and everything around her. Doesn't matter if it's a person, an animal, or the environment. She's convinced trees have feelings. She smiles up at me. “I mean it, Kay.” She blushes at my admission.
“You know what I love most about you?” She squints one eye as the afternoon sun bounces off the Pacific Ocean and right into her eye.
“What?”
“How determined you are. How you never give up. How you fight for everything you want.”
“Like you?” I chuckle, and she swats my arm.
“Seriously, Pax. You just landed your dream job—”
“Stop right there, Kaylee. I’m blessed to have this job. I am. But at the end of the day, it's just a job. I can get any other job, any other day. You're what's important to me.”
“You're what's important to me, too.” She leans in, wrapping her arms around me, tangling the leashes in the process.
“I love you, Kay.”
“I love you more, Pax. More than you could ever imagine.” I hear her voice crack with emotion. She rests her head against my chest, and I take in the scent of her coconut shampoo. To think I almost lost her because of a jealous publicist makes my heart sink and my stomach churn. But she's here, with me, and I'm never letting her go.
“Kaylee?”
She pulls away, releasing her grasp on me. She looks up at me with the biggest blue eyes I've ever seen. Eyes that I can see my future in. Happiness. Peace. Marriage. Babies. Growing old together. She's it for me. I clear my throat and choke down the growing lump in my throat.
“Marry me. Show me you'll be mine forever.”
“What?” she says, pulling completely out of my arms.