Page 100 of Son of a Preacher Man
Holding onto her nipples, he pressed his aching dick inside and groaned. There was no better feeling on this earth. “I love how you take all of me.”
His hips in the cradle of her thighs, Kelly leached him of his seed. Pouring himself inside her, Kodiak watched as she absorbed him. She was truly his, and forever, he was hers.
Unable to be fully free until they found each other, they would have such an incredible life.
“Truth for a truth, Snicks.” He could feel her smile on his skin.
“What?”
“I love you and I want to spend every day of my life with you. Will you marry me?”
Lifting her head from his chest, her fairytale eyes glazed, she smiled. “I love you. Yes, I will.”
And she kissed him.
“Did I ever thank you for the cookies?”
Kelly thought about it for a moment. “You know, I don’t think that you did.”
“Thank you,” he said, slipping the ring on her finger.
Her jaw dropping, she just stared at it.
“Oh, by the way, you should start packing because we’re moving.”
“We are?”
“We are.” He grinned. “You’re going to love living on Park Place. Especially since it’s so close to Beanie’s and Katie’s right across the street…”
Her eyes went wide.
“…my sister will be right next door.”
“And Dillon?”
“Is going to be your brother-in-law.”
He kissed her.
I love you, Kelly.
Yeah, they were going to have the most wonderful, extraordinary, beautiful life.
And after everything, Kodiak figured they deserved it.
Fourth of July, three years later…
He stood on the deck, the dog at his side, watching her long blonde hair billowing out behind her as she chased after their little boy. He’d been right. Their life together was extraordinarily wonderful, magical, and beautiful.
Barely a month after Kodiak proposed, surrounded by the people they loved most, he and Kelly were married where they first promised to be each other’s friend. Under the tree, by the lake, they promised to love one another forever. He was her husband, and she was his wife. She took a pregnancy test the next day. It was positive.
Dillon was back from Ireland by then, and just as he told Linnea it would, everything worked out. A few months later, on a beach in Mexico, they got married too. And a couple of years after that, his sister gave birth to twins. Kodiak had another niece and a nephew. Born on the Fourth of July, today was their first birthday.
Kelly and Katie were pregnant at the same time, due on the same day, in fact. It was like a competition between them, as to who would have their baby first. Kodiak chuckled at the memory. He still wasn’t sure how he and Brendan survived it. As it turned out, Leah was born first.
Their son came kicking and screaming into the world five days later. A head of dark curls, and eyes the color of a stormy tropical sea, Jonathan Kade Black was the most precious, beautiful gift he’d ever been given. Apart from his wife, that is. God, he loved her so much. And more so every day.
Handing him a beer, Bo came to stand beside him. Together, they looked out onto the lake house lawn. Ava, seven months pregnant with her first child, waddled arm in arm with Chloe, who was five months along with her fourth. Emery, who was six now, happily tossed a football with the boys.
