Epilogue

EPILOGUE

PENELOPE

O ne year later . . .

“I love this house.” We moved in as soon as we got back from Kansas. Linc has done amazing things in real estate, and I still work with Lola. Our house is only a few down from hers, right on the beach, overlooking the water.

We keep in touch with Sebastian and Vivienne as much as we can with weekly video calls, and they even came out to visit last month. I’ve grown to love that little boy. I don’t see Colt’s indiscretions when I look at him. I see Colt.

And although he turned out to be human and flawed, I don’t hate him. I’m not angry. I miss him and wish he could be here with all of us. Asher still isn’t a huge fan of Linc and me being together, but I know he’ll come around in time. He needs to find his own way in the world to understand.

“I love the shower.” Linc’s body presses against mine as the spray of our shower rains down on us, washing away all the pain, all the punishment and guilt and leaving just us. “And you naked in it.”

We’ve spent too long with all of it. No more.

“We’re going to be late.” We have to get to the airport to head to Kansas dor Nora’s wedding, which I know sounds a little crazy, but she’s happier than I’ve ever seen her be. If there’s anyone who deserves to be happy, it’s Nora. She met a man around her age when she decided to take an art class, but we all tease her because he’s a year younger. Linc loves to call her a cougar. But I know he’s as happy as I am that Nora found someone who deserves her.

His hand sweeps down my side and then back up, cupping my breast and pinching my nipple, his mouth on my neck. “We can hurry. I know how to make you come.”

His other hand guides his cock between my legs as he thrusts inside me, and I use my hands to brace myself in front of me on the shower wall.

“We’ll see.”

“Always a challenge.”

“Would you have it any other way?”

His arm wraps around my waist, pulling our bodies together. “Fuck. No.”

He was right. I was always his. I loved Colt, but it was a young, unexperienced love. I was trying to be someone else, to be perfect.

But with Linc, I only had to be myself.

And I’ll love him for the rest of my life.

No regrets.