I woke with a sharp gasp as pressure began to build low in my belly. It took only a second for the last dregs of sleep to fade away and realization at what woke me up to set in, and the instant it did, my back arched on a husky moan.

“Was wonderin’ how long it’d take you to wake up.” At the sound of Camden’s gravelly voice, I lowered my eyes down the length of my body to his as he gazed up at me from between my thighs.

“Mmm,” I groaned wantonly. “Don’t stop honey.”

But he didn’t listen. Placing his palms in the mattress, he slowly pulled himself up, dragging his tongue along my hip, circling my navel, trailing it between my breasts until we were face to face.

“You know I love the taste of you, cutie. But you’re not gonna come on my tongue this morning. Need to feel you squeeze around my cock.”

He wanted to play. I could see it in the way those dark blue eyes grew nearly black. And suddenly I was wide awake.

Stretching my arms high over my head, I spread my legs wider to give his hips room. “How do you want me?” I asked, read to give him absolutely anything.

A growl worked its way up his throat as he shifted his weight. “Just like this.” Then he moved, driving himself deep with one powerful thrust.

My head snapped back into the downy pillows and my eyes clamped shut as a sharp cry escaped past my lips. He didn’t bother giving me time to adjust before pounding into me over and over, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Just like always, he felt incredible.

“Yes,” I panted, bring my arms down and wrapping them around his shoulders. “God, Cam, you feel so good, honey.”

“Look at me, baby. Gimme your eyes.” I did as ordered, and what I saw in his as he stared down at me stole my breath. “Christ, Sutton,” he grunted as he fucked me with every bit of strength in his powerful body. “Do you have any goddamn idea how much I love you?”

My eyes began to sting at the same time my walls grew tighter and slicker around his brutal thrusts. “Cam,” was all I could manage on a pleading whisper as my nails dug into his muscular back.

He moved, one arm wrapping around the top of my head to hold me in place while the other hooked behind my left knee and forced my leg up. The new position allowed him to go even deeper, his thick cock rubbing against that sensitive spot deep inside me.

“You’re my fuckin’ world, baby. You’re everything.”

“Honey,” I panted, every muscle in my body growing painfully tight. I was teetering on the edge, so close to falling headlong into a release so strong it scared me.

“Say you love me too.” It was an order, a command, a desperate need from deep within him.

“I do,” I gasped, clutching him to me as tight as I could. “I love you so much, Camden.”

He pulled out and slammed back in. “Forever.”

“Forever,” I cried as I got closer.

The headboard pounded against the wall as he fucked me so hard, so thoroughly, it was as if he was trying to fuse us together.

“Can’t breathe without you, Sutton. Can’t exist. Promise you’ll never leave me again.”

The tears that had been building behind my eyes finally broke free and trailed down my temples. “Never again, honey. I swear.”

His jaw ticked like he was trying to hold back, drag this out so it lasted forever. “I’ll never stop loving you,” he declared, and that was when I finally lost it.

My back bowed off the mattress, and my limbs locked around him as I came with a loud shout of his name on my lips. A second later he buried himself deep and groaned out his release into the crook of my neck.

I kept my hold on him as we both came down, pulling in heaving, gulping breaths of air. “Camden,” I whispered into his ear as my fingers dragged lightly through the soft hair at the nape of his neck. “I love you with every single piece of me. I’ll always love you”

Lowering my leg, he braced his forearms on either side of my head and pushed up to look at me. “Good,” he replied gently, a cocky smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. Then you won’t have any issues with me movin’ in here.”

My arms clenched around him in shock. “What?”

“I’m movin’ in, cutie. Was already practically livin’ here before I fucked up, but if you’re cool with it, I wanna make it official.”

I wanted that too, so bad. “But, what about house hunting? I thought you’d want something… you know, better.”

His forehead dipped into a frown. “You kidding? There’s nothing better than this. I love this house. I love how comfortable and inviting you’ve made it. I love that you feel warm the second you walk in. I love how it reminds me of the house I grew up in, a house for a family. I don’t need something big and fancy. That’s not me. You know that, baby.”

I did, especially after visiting his family. But I still wanted him to be sure. “I love that you like it here, honey, and I want to live with you too. All I’m saying is, if you wanted to look for something a little bigger, I wouldn’t mind giving this place up.”

“Christ,” he grunted, leaning down to kiss me. “You’re fuckin’ perfect, cutie. I love that you’d be willin’ to do that for me, but I don’t want that. I want to live here. I want to start my life with you in this house. I want to wake up to you every morning in this bed in this room. Besides, no other house is gonna have Mrs. Whittaker livin’ right next door.”

With a giggle, I moved to trace his scruffy jaw with the tips of my fingers. “This is very true.”

Those denim eyes flashed with something that looked a lot like hope. “So we’re doing this?”

We so were. I was taking my sister’s advice and grabbing hold of my happiness. And I was never letting it go. My lips curved into a grin as I lifted my head to press them against his. Then I murmured, “Absolutely.”

Apparently that was enough to give Camden his second wind and delay moving him in with me by several hours.

And I was just fine with that.