We cum together, and I nearly black out from how fucking good it feels. I’ve waited so long to have her, and now that it’s done, it’s only beginning.

I roll us over as her orgasm peaks and move her on top of me. “Another,” I demand.

“Another,” she moans, and gives her body over to me.

Chapter 23

Maggie

“Sunshine.” Eli moans my name, but his eyes stay closed. He hasn’t woken up quite yet. Well, that isn’t entirely true. He woke me a few times in the early hours by doing delicious things to me. I had no idea pleasure like that existed, but I should have known better. Eli makes everything in my life better, and I know it’s because he’s my other half.

I maneuver myself over him, straddling his big body. My thighs have to stretch wide for his size. I lick up his chest, feeling the ridges of his muscles against my tongue, wanting to taste every part of him. I can’t seem to stop touching him. It’s like I’m trying to make up for lost time. It’s still hard to believe we’re here together. For so long I’ve felt lost without him, and I know deep down it’s because we are each other’s future. Without him I felt like I was going nowhere. But all this time he was building a life for us in the hope that one day we could be together. God, I love this man. I hate that I ever even questioned him, something I will never do again.

“I take it all back,” I whisper against his skin.

“What’s that?” I look up into his eyes and see he’s wide awake now. One of his hands slides into my hair, playing with the strands.

“That you’re shit at making breakfast. Because this is hands down the best breakfast I’ve ever had.” I smile up at him before taking a nibble at his hard-muscled chest. The sleepiness fades from his face as he flips me over, pinning me below him. His hands lock mine over my head, his fingers linking with mine. I can’t get enough of how easily he moves me around. It’s erotic and exciting all at once, and it makes me feel even more like I’m his.

“I should let you rest.” His mouth comes down to my neck, licking and sucking me. I wrap my legs around him the best I can. “But I think all my control is gone.” I moan at that, that I make him this way. It’s empowering, and even more so after a year of thinking he didn’t even want me. I don’t know how he lasted, though, with the way he is acting now.

“Good.” I rub against him, loving that he’s not holding back. That last night we ripped everything between us to shreds. All the walls and barriers fell away. Nothing could keep us apart now. Neither one of us would let it.

He pulls his head back to look at me. “You sure, sunshine? I know you’re sore.” Concern is written all over his face.

“I don’t care.” All self-preservation is long gone for me.

“I care,” he mumbles, and a flash of worry shows in his eyes.

“Eli, I’m fine. Just—” I’m stopped abruptly when my phone starts to ring. I would normally ignore it at a time like this, but I know who’s calling.

“That’s Alice’s ring,” I tell Eli.

He nods, knowing I can’t ignore her call, especially with how she’s been lately. He rolls away from me and goes for my bag. He digs in my purse and then hands the phone to me.

“Hey,” I say, but she interrupts me instantly.

“Oh my God, Maggie. It’s your dad. They found him. You have to come home!”

It takes me a minute to register what she’s saying. I look at Eli, and my eyes fill with tears. Hope grows in my chest, and so many emotions pass through me. I’m thankful I’m still sitting in bed because I might have fallen over otherwise.

“He’s coming home,” Eli says, reading my face.

I nod, and I can feel it’s true. I always knew he’d come back.

“I’m coming,” I tell her, and hang up the phone. Eli is already tossing my clothes at me as I start getting dressed. When we are both ready he grabs me, pulling me in for a kiss that’s deep and hard, letting me know that he’s here for me. For us. That everything we face from forever forward, we will be doing together.

“Let’s go to Major’s house, sunshine.” I notice he doesn’t say home, and I smile at him. My family is back and about to be whole once again.

The ride feels like it takes forever, and when I try to get Eli to speed, he shakes his head, talking about precious cargo. I roll my eyes but smile while I do it.

When we finally reach home, I’m out of the truck before it stops, and Eli yells something about me being safe. The front door flies open, revealing Alice. She looks like she’s been crying again. I go to grab her, but stop. Her robe has come undone, showing her in a pair of pajama shorts and a tight tank top. I glance down and see what is very clearly a baby bump. My eyes widen in shock as she hurriedly covers up the bump, pulling her robe closed.

“Don’t,” she whispers as I feel Eli come up behind me.

I want to say something, but her eyes are pleading with me to keep quiet, so I do. I don’t know if it’s because she doesn’t want to talk about it or that she doesn’t want me to say something in front of Eli.

Memories from the last few months flip through my mind, signs I should have seen but didn’t. I was so wrapped up in missing Eli, and then my dad went missing. God, I’ve been a shitty friend to her. I must have made her feel like she couldn’t tell me what was going on. I was so consumed with my own life and what was happening to me that I couldn’t see my friend had gotten pregnant.