Epilogue

Epilogue

Amber, Three years later…

I s it fate or our mistakes that get us rolling in the direction we're supposed to be heading?

Does it matter?

Some think so but I think as long as we get to where we are needed everything works out in the end. I used to think I had a curse on me that came in threes every few years. But love showed me otherwise. I just needed to be patient and take the opportunities life brought me. It took me a little while to catch on but when I finally did, oh boy did my life turn around. All it took was a little fortune cookie, a challenging dare and a fierce desire to change my life.

Easy, right?

Not so much but worth it and you can take that to the bank.

So here's my challenge to you, my dear reader. Be bold. Explore all those tingly feelings you get for the hunky, single professor with the rolling muscles or hot bachelor cop with the massive shoulders and thick…biceps. You know what I mean! Let your body feel those hot flames of desire for the hunky firefighter with the big hose and chiseled abs and let your heart feel the rush of love for that special someone. I dare you!

I read over my piece for a New York paper I write for part-time before shooting it off to my editor, smiling. I took on the advice column gig right after the incident with my father, not realizing I had so much to offer others in that department. The letters of thanks and stories I get back from my readers have filled my heart to overflowing.

Silver linings have a way of showing up through the storm and that job offer paid my way through school and paid Maddox back for the funds he fronted me…even if he didn't want it.

I graduated summa cum laude and have met a lot of people in the last few years.

After the incident with my father and moving in with Maddox, I got to meet all of Maddox's friends, who quickly became my friends. I got to meet Rosalee's beau who turned out to be the related to the founder. Imagine my shock when he and Rosa hired me as their personal lawyer the day I graduated. It's an understatement to say I've been blessed.

I have so much to be thankful for and silver linings abound in my life. Truth be told, I have so many that I have to really force myself to think of the bad. And maybe it took trudging through the swamp of life to get to this moment. I don't know. I'm no goddess with an all-knowing power despite what Maddox professes. I'm just a girl with a full heart.

I dig my toes into the sand and soak in the beautiful rays of warm sunshine on my skin and let my mind wander a moment longer. I drink in the view of my husband walking up the beach wearing low-slung trunks and a wicked smile. Three years since he got down on one knee and asked me to be his forever, and I still lose my breath when he looks my way.

He comes to stand over me and falls to his knees, taking my lips in a crushing kiss.

He pulls away, pressing his forehead against mine. "Now that I've taken you mountain climbing and snorkeling and have fed you chocolate under the northern lights, how about we check one more thing off your list of adventures?"

I dig my fingers into his hair and ruffle the long ends. "Oh yeah, what do you have in mind, professor?"

He closes and takes the laptop from me to lay me back in the sand. Leaning forward, he teases my sun-warm skin just above my navel with the tip of his tongue and a dark glint in his eyes.

"A baby."

My eyebrows raise in surprise. "You want the pinnacle of our vacation to be getting me pregnant?" We haven't taken a real vacation outside of the US since our honeymoon, so he surprised me with a trip to a private island with crystal clear waters and a little cabana and all the beach to ourselves. After our first time didn't result in me getting pregnant, we decided to wait until the time was right. And it seems like that time might be now.

His lips peel back in a devilish smile that has my heart swooning for the man all over again. "Can you think of something better? I'm ready to ditch the rubbers and take my wife bare again. See my cum drip from that beautiful hole. What do you say?"

"No, I can't think of anything better. Not in a million years, Maddox Spencer."

A couple of pulls and tugs and the sides of my bikini bottom and top fall away. Sunlight glints off the new piercings adorning my nipples with sparkling rubies. A wedding gift for him and one I had no idea I would love just as much as he does. I guess that made it a gift for the two of us.

"Give me a baby, lover. Let's make a family," I husk, dragging him up my body and wrapping my bare thighs around his waist.

"I intend to."

I groan when the heavy weight of his cock springs free from his swimming trunks. Seeing him hard and ready has me wet instantly.

I take him in my hand and guide him to my entrance. I arch off the sand when he takes me in a single thrust and I'm that student all over again, greedy and hungry for the man I love.

He slips an arm around me and holds me close to his heart. I can feel our breathing fall into sync like everything else about us.

"Ah sugar, so tight for me. Wrap your legs around me and hold on," he orders in a masculine husk. Then he kisses me with all the love in the world, and I give it right back, knowing I'm right where I belong. I'm with my family, my protector and anything in the world is possible with the right people by your side.

I'm home.