Total pages in book: 112
Estimated words: 107667 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 538(@200wpm)___ 431(@250wpm)___ 359(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 107667 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 538(@200wpm)___ 431(@250wpm)___ 359(@300wpm)
I tighten my grip as her eyes capture mine. “I wouldn’t let you if you tried.”
She grins at that. “There is my man,” she purrs, running her thumb along my lips. “Don’t ever forget who you are, who I am, and who we are together.”
“A team.”
“A winning team,” she corrects. “Now, take me inside and make love to me.”
My face breaks into a grin.
“You’ve done stressed me out, and I need to come on your cock. Like, right now.”
I slide my hands down to her ass, my body shaking with want for her. “My cock works just fine right here, ya know.”
“Then what are you waiting for?” she challenges as heat coils in my gut, and said cock comes to life just for her.
“One thing,” I tell her, holding her close.
“Which is?”
“For a moment to admire the woman I get to love for the rest of my life.”
She leans in, her lips brushing mine as her eyes sparkle. “Worm food.”
My lips curve against hers as I brush her hair off her shoulders, falling even more in love with her. “And we’ll do it all over again in our next life.”
“I can’t wait.”
“Neither can I.”
Our lips crash together, and I realize that even if I’d tried to put space between us, it wouldn’t have worked. It didn’t before, and it wouldn’t now. Or ever.
Because this love we have isn’t a one-lifetime thing.
It’s a multiple-lifetimes thing.
I will always find her.
Just as she will find me.
All we’ll need is three rounds of tequila before ten a.m., an orange dildo, and each other to set the world on fire.
Epilogue
Tennessee
“Are you sure orange is my color, Tennie?”
I look over to where Sabine stands between my parents. She’s wearing a pair of wide-leg white jeans with sparkly orange shoes and an oversize Tennessee hoodie. Her hair is up in a high ponytail with an orange ribbon tied in a bow. Her blue eyes are shining bright, and I love how much her face has filled out. When she came to us, she was skinnier than I liked, though I never brought it up because I knew Dart would lose it. Now, only a month from the day we got her, she looks healthy. And God, is she happy.
We all are.
My daddy’s gaze moves from the game to set Sabine with a look, grinning from ear to ear as his booming voice fills our suite. “Darling, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone look better in orange than you do right now!”
Sabine beams as she wiggles, and she smiles proudly up at me. I wrap an arm around her, holding her as we cheer on my—I mean, our—Vols. What used to be just my Saturday ritual has turned into Sabine’s and Dart’s too. Even when he’s not home, he keeps up with the game, and it pleases me to no end.
I still haven’t gotten used to him being gone. I miss him like crazy, but when he is gone, it gives Sabine and me time to get to know each other. And lordy, I love her. She is her brother’s sister, for sure. Passionate, kind, and so damn loving. I honestly don’t even know what Dart’s birthing unit was running her mouth about. I’m not trapped, not even in the slightest. Every day, I’m rewarded with the love of two people my life would have no meaning without. Is it easy? Not always. There have been some growing pains. Sabine missed her mom at first, but once we got her into school and violin classes, she started to find her footing. I know she’s where she is supposed to be, and the fact that her mother hasn’t called or checked in since the moment Sabine got to us only reinforces how I feel.
She’s worthless, and Sabine is better off.
“Did that loan come through?” Daddy asks, pulling me from the gameplay and all my thoughts. Like I wanted, I have started my own company to rival CapitalCare. It’s been a rough start since I offered to pay the fee to break the contract between the teams that wanted to work with me instead of CapitalCare, but it hasn’t discouraged me. I’m excited. I just needed the capital, and even though my daddy was ready to invest, he would have to take out a loan to do so, and I wasn’t okay with that.
“So…” I start, holding up my hand, “don’t get mad.”
“Jesus Christ,” he mutters. “He talked you into letting him put up the money.”
Him, being Dart. “Yes, but he is going to be a silent partner, and we still want you on board.”
Daddy scoffs. “There ain’t nothing silent about that boy.”
“This is true,” Dart says, slapping my daddy on the back respectfully. He wears a full Vols suit that he special-ordered and looks absolutely delicious in. I wish I had time to take him back to the hotel tonight and peel it off him, but he has to fly out to rejoin the team in California. He didn’t have the days off he would have had if we had come earlier, but we pushed our trip back so that Sabine had time to adjust before we brought her to meet my parents. It worked out too because I missed Josie and Denis’s wedding. Much to my mother’s dismay. “But my lawyer is drawing up the papers, and I promise Tennessee will be protected, as will I. We truly want you to be a part of Rocky Top Athletics.”