Total pages in book: 174
Estimated words: 172061 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 860(@200wpm)___ 688(@250wpm)___ 574(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 172061 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 860(@200wpm)___ 688(@250wpm)___ 574(@300wpm)
It wasn’t reserved or like he was doing it to put on a show, and it didn’t come close to feeling like he was doing it out of obligation because that’s what the judge had instructed him to do.
He kissed me like he was pouring everything he had into it. The same way as I felt in his eyes when he was staring down at me. The same as I heard in his voice when he’d uttered those words.
“I do.”
I do.
I do.
I chanted it silently as I fisted my fingers into the fabric of his dress shirt. Wondering if I’d tripped and hit my head on the way in because this felt impossible.
Too real and right and everything that I ever wanted.
Fire spiraled through me as his mouth moved against mine.
One of his big, big hands curled around my jaw and the other glided down my back and kneaded into my flesh as he bent me backward a fraction.
The man completely commanded the kiss.
Devoured me in a way that I only dreamed of being devoured.
Right out in public and in plain sight of our families.
His teeth just barely nipped at my lips, and I felt the soft sweep of the tip of his tongue against mine.
A dizzying promise of what was to come.
I couldn’t breathe.
Couldn’t think.
I could only wheeze out a disoriented sigh when he pulled back a fraction and gazed down at me with those hazel eyes.
“My wife.”
My pulse raced at a frantic beat, and I felt completely disoriented when he pecked another quick kiss on my lips before he weaved his fingers through mine, tugging at my hand as he basically hauled me back up the aisle that led to the massive double wooden doors of the courthouse.
Raven stood and shoved the bouquet back into my hands as we passed. Cash sent a succinct, telling nod to the guys, while the rest of the girls were giving me these little giddy flutters of their fingers and my children were waving and grinning as they stood on the bench to watch us depart.
Cash didn’t waste any time. He led me out into the foyer, our feet clattering on the stone tile before we burst through the exterior doors.
Rays of sunlight speared from above, and Cash didn’t slow as he hurried me down the ten steps that fronted the enormous historic building. Stone pillars supported its façade and bracketed the doors that the rest of the family piled out of.
Still cheering and shouting and giving us well wishes.
Like this was real.
Like what we had promised within the walls of that building had been sanctified and brought into fruition.
Cash didn’t slow. He led me to his bike that was parked next to two others.
My heart jackhammered in my chest.
My mind swirling in excitement and confusion.
He swung his leg over.
God, the man was so gorgeous at the helm.
The longer pieces of his warm brown hair blew in the breeze and those forest-hedged eyes gleamed with greed.
He released me long enough to kick over the bike’s engine before he reached out, took my hand, and gave it a tug.
“Get on, Daisy.”
It was a command.
A claim.
The oxygen fled from my lungs, and I carefully hiked up the skirt of my dress so I could swing my leg over his bike.
He held me steady as I climbed on.
Flames licked through my insides as I pressed my chest to his back, and my thighs burned as I tucked them up to his hips.
He revved the engine, and my children jumped and clapped.
And it was bliss I could feel streaking through me as Cash took to the street. As he wound through the quaint small town and headed up the mountain.
The wind whipping through my hair and the skirt of my dress flapping all around.
Cash’s hard body steel against mine.
His heart banged at his chest. So loud I could feel it thrum against my ear that I had pressed to his back.
We climbed and weaved up the mountainside.
The engine a roar and the metal vibrating us to the bone.
I was terrified to even contemplate what was happening. To think that maybe…maybe he felt the same thing as I did when I whispered those words.
The oath that had wound out from my soul.
The truest confession of my love.
Did he know it then? Did he understand?
We took the two-lane road at an exhilarating pace. The blood in my veins rushing wild as we leaned into the curves, my arms cinched tight around him, no fear in my being because I knew without any reservations that Cash would protect me.
That he would take care of my children, no matter what.
That he…
My stomach twisted in anticipation as he slowed and turned onto the worn trail that led to his cabin. The bike bounced over the rutted terrain while my spirit soared high above it.