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I smirk. “Well, I’m placing bets on those two. Thank god they aren’t staying here tonight, I’m sure we’d find them screwing all over the place.”

“Speaking of screwing,” Padraig says with a cheeky grin. “I’ve been telling my cock to behave from the moment I saw ye in that dress. Don’t think I can control him anymore.”

He presses his very large, hard erection against me, practically grinding it against my dress.

A flush of heat simultaneously flares up on my cheeks and between my legs.

“You tease,” I tell him, pressing my body back against his.

“Not teasing, darlin’,” he whispers into my ear. “I just want to get my cock inside ye as your husband. I want to fuck my wife for the first time and I want to fuck her good.”

Oh, sweet Jesus, am I ever turned on right now. We haven’t had sex for a few days because of the wedding and the stress of it all but now I can hardly contain myself. His words stroked my desire from embers into flames.

His hands slip down over my ass, giving it a hefty squeeze.

“Padraig,” I chide him but I’m giggling. “My parents probably saw that.”

He looks up over my shoulder. “No, your father is dancing with Angie and your mother is dancing with the Major. And us, well, I think we need to quit dancing and find a quiet place where I can make you scream my name.”

I gulp. Okay. This is totally happening.

“What do ye say?” he asks, pulling back to look at me with so much love and lust and want in his eyes.

“You know I’ll say yes,” I tell him. “I’ll always say yes to you. To new adventures and beyond.”

He kisses me and then grabs my hand.

“Okay then, come on,” he says.

He leads me away from the tents of the dance floor and into the woods behind the field.

“You know we have a bed in the cottage, right?” I whisper as we disappear from the crowd and into the shadows of the trees. The ends of my dress are gathered in my hands but at least I’m wearing white Converse on my feet.

“Which is used as a staging area and has people milling about in it.” He stops and presses me back against the smooth bark of a birch tree. “Besides, this is where we first told each other that we loved each other. Seems only right to consummate that love here. And maybe I’ll tell ye again.”

He brushes a strand of hair of my face, the red catching the gold of the sunset beyond the trees. “I love ye, Valerie. I’ll love ye till the end and beyond.”

I swallow the lump in my throat. “I love you, too.”

I wrap my hands behind his neck and he places a searing kiss on my lips. “Ye don’t mind if your dress gets a little roughed up, do ye?” he murmurs.

“You know I’ll take anything you can give me,” I tell him as he starts kissing my neck, sending flutters down my back, while he bunches up my dress around my waist.

“Then I’ll give ye everything I’ve got,” he says. “Always.”

“And forever?”

“Always and forever, mo chuisle mo chroi.”

The pulse of his heart.



THE END

(and they did live happily ever after)





Afterword





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Acknowledgments



This book was a long time coming and an exercise between “what if” and “even if” and I have a lot of people to thank. First of all, I want to thank my lovely readers and bloggers who have waited patiently for this book. I hope Padraig and Valerie (and Nan!) were worth the wait! If they weren’t, I’ll beat you with a wooden spoon! But really, thank you for being so, so supportive, especially my Anti-Heroes for always cheering me on.