Reece
Fuck me. The woman went to change so we could talk, and she comes out wearing that? She should have put on more clothes if she wanted me to have an intelligent conversation with her. The closer she gets to me, the more I can smell her vanilla cinnamon scent. When she notices that I’ve set the living room up for dinner, she gives me the sweetest smile. I haven’t gotten one like that since we were kids, when I used to play the knight to her princess. I would have done whatever she wanted then, but now? Now, I’d go to any lengths imaginable to see her happy.
I walk to her, meeting her at the entrance of the living room from the hallway. I pull her into my arms and hold her tight to me. It’s like she’s reached in and pulled out my heart. She doesn’t even know what she does to me, that she holds me so completely.
I rub my nose in her hair and inhale her sweet aroma. I can’t get enough of this girl. After going so long without her, I’m struggling to believe that we’re finally at a point where we can be together.
“Reece, what are you doing?”
“I have missed you so much, Maci Kate. I never thought we would get this chance. I could kick my own ass for keeping us apart back then. I was already falling in love with you, but you were too young for me at the time.” I hold her to me tighter, my fingertips rubbing the skin right above her ass.
“I was eighteen, Reece. I was an adult, about to go off to college.”
I laugh darkly. “You were starting high school, and all I wanted to do was tell you to wait for me. I had to hold myself back from begging you to save that sweet cherry for me. I wanted to wait until you were older, and it was okay for us to be together.”
“I did. I waited for you. There was never anyone for me. No one interested me like you did. The further you pulled away, the more I craved any detail your parents would share when they were around. You starred in all my fantasies growing up, Reece. You were everything to me,” she rasps into my chest.
“Fuck, baby, I’m so sorry for pushing you away and into someone else’s arms.” I pick her up, needing to be closer. I sit on the couch and hold her in my lap, her legs straddling me.
I lift her chin to see her big, beautiful brown eyes are full of tears. I wipe them away as they fall. She needs to get it all out. All the pain. She needs to get rid of the poison between us, and I’ll gladly take it all.
“I saved myself for you, Reece. I wanted you to be my first, my only, my last. I couldn’t see giving myself to anyone else. When I was in high school, I always pictured us ending up together. When you shattered my fantasy, I convinced myself that my feelings were those of an unrequited crush.”
She traces my jaw with her pointer finger, staring as it follows the edge of my unshaved jaw to my ear, and then down my neck.
“It got worse in college, though. I compared every man to you. No one ever measured up, and that pissed me off. All I wanted was to get over you. I wanted to prove to myself that I mattered to someone. That I could be loved like I wanted you to love me.”
I grab her finger, pulling her hand to my chest, covering my heart. “You mattered, Maci. You were in the forefront of my mind through boot camp and every tour I enlisted in.” I move a piece of hair from her eyes and tuck it behind her ear. “I remember the day of the barbeque so clearly. You looked so beautiful in that blue summer dress. I couldn’t even bear to look at you when I left, because I knew I would turn back around and tell you how much I wanted you.
She looks me in the eyes now. “Why didn’t you ever say anything? Why did you make me believe that I meant nothing?”
“I was such a stupid asshole. I’m stubborn, baby. I stayed away at first because I didn’t know what was going to happen over there. I couldn’t do that to you. It was bad enough I was doing it to Mom and Dad. After a few years, all I could think about was getting back to you and making things right with us. When I got home and asked about you, Mom told me you were married and had a son.”
She snorts. “If you’d like to call it that. We were only together for six months when I got pregnant. Bennett was an accident. A beautiful, wonderful, wouldn’t change it for the world accident. David and I got married because he asked, and I was scared. I thought that was what you were supposed to do when you got pregnant. A year after Bennett was born, I found out he was cheating on me with a mutual friend.”
“What a fucking prick. I would never do that to you, sweetheart. No man worth anything would do that to their woman.”
She smiles, like my words mean something to her. “Shh, Reece.” She puts both of her hands on my neck and scratches the back of my scalp lightly. I wonder if she realizes how hard she’s making me. Through my anger and her pain, her touch still gets to me.
“It didn’t hurt as bad as I thought it would have. Sure, I felt betrayed and humiliated. I was pissed that he would do that to our family, but I was surviving because my heart wasn’t in it—not like it should have been. He asked me to take him back, to forgive him. I couldn’t. He gave me the excuse I needed to move on, and I took it. I should have never married him in the first place. I would have been fine as a single mother. I know that now. God, I mean, even when we were married, he was never there. I did everything for Bennett. I still do.”
I pull her closer and kiss her forehead. “I’m pissed that he betrayed and hurt you, baby. Selfishly, I’m happy, because now we are at a place where our forever can finally begin.”
Maci rubs her nose against mine. “You want to begin with me, Reece?” She kisses my cheek, making her way slowly down to my lips.
“You were mine since you were born, Maci. I regret every day I didn’t give into loving you. I’m not making that mistake again. I’m never letting you go. Never giving another man a chance to have what has always been mine.”
I give in and give her my mouth. I pour all my sorrow and regret over losing her into this kiss. I apologize in the only other way I can. I’ve given her the words. I’m ready to move forward, but is she? Can she get over what I did to us?
Pulling away from her lips, she makes the most adorable whimpering noises. “I know, baby, but I need the words. I need to know that you’re in this and are ready to move forward. I don’t want to look at the past anymore.”
She searches my face and, after long moments, nods, only slightly. Pushing my hands into her hair, I pull it tightly, so her eyes are on mine. “Give me the words, Maci girl. Tell me what I need to hear.”
“You say forever, and that I’m yours. What does that mean? You give me the words, Reece. I’m not jumping blindly anymore, hoping for the best. My eyes are wide open. As much as I want you to be my forever, I have Bennett to think about now as well. What do you want from me, Reece?”
“When I say you are mine, that’s exactly what I mean. I am the only man, the only one, that will ever take any pleasure from you, starting now. Your full lips, your hot pussy, your perfect ass, and huge tits are all mine. You will never allow anyone to take pleasure from them again. I’m a greedy bastard, Maci Kate. I want all of you, and I’m done waiting. You will have no other man, because I will be your only one until our days are over.”
With wide eyes, I think I’ve shocked her. I’m not finished yet. She wants to know what I want from her, then she’ll hear it all.
“We will be getting married. You are going to be having my babies.” She frowns at me. “No, get that thought right out of your head. Bennett isn’t being replaced. That kid is cool as shit, and he’ll be taking my name. He deserves to have a father who wants him around and teaches him how to be a good man. He’s going to be the best big brother to all our children. He is a part of you, and when I tell you you’re mine, that includes Bennett.
“Our future starts now, Maci. Do you hear me? If you don’t want this, you tell me now. No way in hell am I walking away from us. I’ve spent three years thinking there would never be an us. If you say you aren’t ready, that just means I have to try harder to convince you that what I say is true. I know you. The question isn’t whether I’m the man for you. We both know that I am. The question is if you can trust me to stay and to be here when the shiny rubs off and life gets real. I’m here. I’m here for every hard part and rough day. You’ve got me like you should have had me years ago.”
“Do I have you?”
“Yes,” she answers. “You have me, Reece Atwood. I’m yours until all my tomorrows are over, until the sun refuses to shine in the sky, and the rain no longer falls. You have all of me.”
I don’t wait to pull her into me; I devour her mouth like I’ve wanted to all week. She’s finally mine, and I’m not holding back from her any longer. I grind my hard dick into her heated core, placed perfectly over my lap. “I need to be inside you. Now.”
I stand up with Maci straddling my middle, carry her into her bedroom, and place her on the bed. She sits against the headboard, watching me undress. I pull my shirt over my head and unbuckle my belt. I watch her watch me, sucking on her bottom lip. It’s fucking hot to know she needs me as much as I need her. I pull my button on my jeans and zip them down.
“Shit. Wait, Reece. I know I didn’t ask last time, but you’re clean, right? You’ve been tested since the last time you were with someone?”
I get my jeans off, and I’m in nothing but my black boxer briefs. I go to the bed and straddle her thighs. I grab her hands in mine and pull them up, so they are covering my chest.
“Sweetheart, you’re the only one who will ever have me. I’ve never needed to be tested. I’ve never gotten close enough to anyone to have to.”
With wide eyes and an open mouth, she whispers, “You’re a virgin?”
“When I was in the Marines, when I thought I had given you up for good, I tried being with a couple of women after getting drunk enough. I could never go through with it. I could never give them the part of myself I desperately wanted to give to you. When I got home and found out I couldn’t have you, I was too messed up by what I had experienced over there to care about being with a woman.”
“You’re a virgin?” I nod sharply, not wanting to talk about this. It never embarrassed me, but now that I’m here with my angel, I’m worried I won’t be experienced enough. Over the years I fantasized about being with her, I pictured the many ways I would take her. Envisioning our first time has run on a loop through my mind since I touched her five days ago.
“Wow. Reece, I… I know this isn’t something you want to hear right now, but I was only with David, and it has been years since the last time we—”
I cut her off, not needing to hear this, but happy it’s only been him. “I got it, Maci. Let’s never talk about it again, okay?”
She purses her lips together like she’s tasted something sour and nods. I pull her hoodie and her white shirt-bra thing off her. Her blush consumes her face, and her hands go to her stomach, hiding her body from me. She looks away from me and closes her beautiful eyes.
I’m not a stupid man. I know she’s a bigger girl and has some curves and extra around the middle from when she was pregnant with Bennett. I love them, and the extra weight doesn’t bother me in the least. I find other women beautiful, but her body in any form is the only one that has ever done it for me.
I know she’s nervous, me seeing her like this. Last time she was naked was fast, and we weren’t thinking. This time, we’re slower, and are going into this eyes wide open. I know she’s scared, and that’s the last thing I want her feeling while I’m loving her.
I’m just going to have to show her how much I cherish her body. It won’t be a hardship, spending the rest of my life showing her, but I don’t want her to worry about what I think of it for another second.
I kiss the valley between her breasts, slowly licking and kissing towards one, and then the other. I show her nipples the attention they deserve until, Maci’s core is grinding against my cock and she’s shoving her tits into my mouth. I kiss up her neck and kiss her deeply. Her moans are becoming louder, and the restraint I was keeping snaps.
I pull away from her body and sit up on my knees while I remove her sexy boxers. I get up from the bed and lose the only other scrap of clothing that was keeping us from each other. I grab her ankles and pull her so she’s lying flat on the bed, before covering her body with mine and rub my aching dick along her wet slit.
“I’m not wearing anything, Maci. You want me? You get all of me. We’re starting our forever tonight, starting our family. I hope I put a baby in you this first time, and I’m not going to give up until I see the proof that my seed has taken root inside of you. You okay with that?”
A slow grin transforms her face. “Yes, Reece. I’m okay with that. Come here.” She pulls my face down to her and kisses me. She pours all her love into the kiss, and I feel the difference between this one and all the others we have shared. She’s all in, and she’s no longer holding onto any of the pain from before. Finally, she’s here in the moment, and the past no longer has a place in our future.