Epilogue

Montana

-simply the best-

Ireally shouldn’t have been doing this. It was completely out of tradition, but so far, everything in our relationship had been out of tradition. This, I reckoned, shouldn’t be that big of a deal. In fact, it was only the presence of the girls that was making it a big deal, and I decided then to rectify that before he came over.

“Hey guys,” I said boldly. “I need a little bit of privacy now.”

“Of course,” Kelly said and started to leave, but as I expected Natalie and Pearl gave me a look.

“The bride is not supposed to see the groom before her wedding,” Pearl said.

“Who made that rule?” I asked.

“People smarter than you,” Natalie retorted.

“I’m nervous, and I need to see him.”

Kelly laughed. “I’ll go and tell him. No reasoning with this one. She”s been hungry for this man from the moment she met him. Why should we expect any different now?”

“It’s not that, it’s not what you thi-”

“Don’t bother,” both women said and exited the room laughing.

I was left in silence. I turned around then to look at my dress hanging from a hook on the wall. The moment I saw it I knew it was the one, just like I had known from the moment I laid eyes on Luca that he was the one. At that time, I thought it was for one night, but oh how wrong I was, I was too anxious. Everything and everywhere was unfamiliar, and I knew only one person could calm me down. I needed to see Luca now, before the wedding, even if it was against tradition.

There was a soft knock, and he came in. He didn’t have his jacket on yet, but he looked amazing. I was completely struck. I mean, he’d been breathtakingly handsome from the moment I”d seen him, but this was another level. A different level, and it made me wonder what I”d even been nervous about.

“Are you alright?” he asked worriedly. “I thought you didn’t want me to see you before the wedding.”

“Yeah ... I just...” I stared at him, mesmerized.

“What is it?” he asked. “You aren”t having second thoughts, are you?”

“Absolutely not.” I smiled. “It’s just ... before I put on the dress, I thought we could ...” I shifted my weight from one foot to the other. Thankfully, he didn’t need much to understand.

“Really?”

“I’m so restless. I don’t know if it is these stupid stockings or the corset, or ... I just ... I just know… I just need to take the edge off.”

He smiled then.

“You’ll ask me to marry you later, and I’ll say yes, but I’m the one who is nervous now because I’m asking you for something, and I don”t know if you’ll say yes.”

“Why don’t you ask me officially and find out?” he asked.

I sucked in my breath. Would I really be able to say the words out loud, but as I looked at the gorgeous man standing before me who I loved with all my heart and soul, I found the words were quite easy to say.

“Luca Rossi, will you fuck me, Montana Moore, before our wedding ceremony?”

He laughed and I could feel the heat surge into my face.

Then he locked the door and turned to face me. On one condition, though.” He brought out his phone. “We’re going to record this.”

“Absolutely not.”

He gave me a look as he began to unbuckle his belt, and I absolutely melted.

“We’re going to keep it in a vault of some sort afterward. Don’t worry,” he assured. “I know a little something or the other about hiding files. It’ll be safe forever for me to revisit every single year for the next seventy years.”

I nodded. Yes, for the next seventy years. Even when we were old and gray.

I lost my breath when he pulled out his gorgeous cock.

Instantly, I dropped to my knees, glad that I hadn’t put on the dress yet because I definitely wouldn’t have been able to do this in that pristine thing. Without wasting any time, I pulled his sweet head into my mouth and began to suck.

“Oh,” he threw his head back. “Fuck.”

I always loved the way he reacted to me. Our fire for each other burned hotter than ever after the death of Paganini.

Even so for many months afterwards we’d had to watch our backs, still nervous and cautious about the impending threat from both the ongoing police investigation and Paganini’s scattered goons. But nothing came to bite us. With time we let it. With its head, the snake was dead.

All we knew was peace, love and contentment. Sometimes it felt as though I was living in a dream and if I pinched myself, I would wake up, but no matter what I never woke up.

“I think you”re more anxious than you expected because we’re having the ceremony far from home,” Luca said as I took him even deeper. “You”re still quite unfamiliar with New York.”

That’s not strictly true. I loved New York too. Not to live in, but to visit at the weekends. Luca had got himself a helicopter, and we decided to live in Bison Ridge, but spend our weekends in New York. It made perfect sense. This way he could travel for work and I could teach at the school.

But I didn’t want to speak. All that could be done later.

I sucked harder, my cheeks hollowing to take as much of him as I could without messing my makeup, but that, I had to accept would be an impossible feat if I wanted to enjoy this moment as much as I wanted to.

Aware of the very limited time left, I added both of my hands and worked his length from root to tip in tandem with my mouth. In no time he came long and hard. I took all of him needing that familiar taste down my throat and in my belly. I loved how he tasted; the intimacy of how it made me feel. Like he owned me in ways that I couldn’t quite explain or comprehend.

He pulled me up and looked around, and I wondered what happened to his threat of recording this.

“Where’s your phone?” I asked.

He smiled. “No need,” he said. “I’ve stored every second of your award-winning performance in my heart.”

It was corny, but still it made me melt.

“We shouldn’t be doing this, but it looks like you’re ready to go again so …” I began to slide my thong down my thighs as I got ready to make a mental videotape of this moment. For my own personal viewing for when I was old and gray. So I could marvel at the insane things we got up too in your youth.

I felt every inch of him as he plunged into me until all the nerves were fucked out of my body and all I felt was giddy and an uncontrollable excitement.

My heart raced, as I felt his hands part me open, and his cock was sliding in hard and deep. He held my hips and thrust into me with one smooth push until he hit the very end. My eyes lifted to the ceiling as an indescribable bliss came over me.

Then he began to move.

“Fuck, I love you,” I swore.

He turned me around and kissed me the way he knew I loved it best: long, slow, and deep.

“I love you more.”

That’s all Folks!