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“You gave me the courage to do it, Dray. You gave me a reason to. Without you, without our baby, I’d have married Alex and spent my days untouched, unloved, and unappreciated. You reminded me that life is messy and love is... chaos, but it’s the only thing worth fighting for. It’s more important than duty or reputation. It’s more valuable than money, than status. So how can you say you failed me when you’ve given me the only thing that truly matters?”

Fuck.

I swallow down the emotions that build and swerve the car off the road. The second it’s in park, I kiss her properly, the way I wanted to back there, and as my tongue slides into her mouth, I rip that fake ass engagement ring from her finger.

Her breath catches as she tries to slip over the center console to get to me, but her dress gets in the way. Frustrated, she gets out of the car and starts tearing the fabric. I don’t even hesitate to get out and help her. The sound of tearing is music to our ears, layers of lace falling from her body like she’s shedding all the weight of our past, and when she’s down to her bra and panties I rip those off too. I don’t want a piece of this outfit to survive, and once I drape my jacket over her shoulders to shield her from the cold metal, I slam her back against it and claim her mouth for my own.

I don’t care where we are, if anyone sees. All I care about is being inside of her.

Mine. My little keeper, the mother of my child. The savior of my bastard soul.

Her lips catch mine as she wraps her legs around me, unburdened and unashamed.

“You chose me,” I mumble out, my hand struggling to get my cock out of my slacks. “Proudly. Loudly. You chose me.”

“Of course I did. Why choose someone at all if you’re not willing to do it with all of you?”

With her words, I sink inside of her with absolution. “I choose you too, beautiful. Over everything and everyone. I’d burn it all for you.”

I fuck her harder than I intended to, rocking the car and making her head tip back, but she takes it. Right here on the side of the road in sight of god, travelers, and the devil himself, she takes it.

“You’re all mine now,” I growl, leaning in to bite her jaw. “Say. It.”

“I’m yours.” She clenches around me, rolling her hips and digging her nails into my skin. “Yours, Draven. No one else’s. Never again.”

“Never—” I slam into her harder and harder “—again. Fuck, you feel so good.”

I suck a purple mark on her throat now that I can publicly claim her, then another on the side of her jaw. One day soon, I’ll cover her entire body. My hands grip her ass tighter as I move faster, feeling her tight hot cunt squeezing me as she screams my name to the skies.

My name.

Not my brother’s.

Mine.

“Scream it, baby. We don’t have to hide anymore.”

Ever again.

It feels so damn good to say I hear myself whimper against her flesh without even realizing the sound actually came from me. I don’t have it in me to be embarrassed about it, and I know she’d never judge me. We’re finally free.

“Come for me, woman. Come all over your man’s cock right here on the side of the road.”

This time, she doesn’t attempt to touch her clit. She’s come a long way during our stolen nights together, learning her body and getting out of her own head. She still loves it when I touch her there, when I lick and suck and rub until she’s shaking and overstimulated, but she loves this too. Feeling me drive myself deeper, harder, faster, fucking a hole right through her and tearing her apart.

So she comes for me. Trembling and soaked, I feel her pussy squeeze my cock sending me over well before I meant to come, but it feels so damn good I can’t find it in me to feel bad about it. I stand there pulsing deep inside of her, flooding her perfect little pussy until I’m completely spent, and even then I don’t want to pull myself out of her. “Are you ready to start our life together, little keeper?”

One that is entirely our own.

She brushes a stray curl from my face and meets my eyes, nodding slowly. “For however long we have left.”

“Where do you want to go? I’ll take you anywhere in the world.”

Her lips purse as she thinks about it, but she ultimately shakes her head. “Away, baby. I just want to go far away.”

“Then let’s go.”

I have no ties to anything or anyone but her now, so if my baby wants to go far away, then we will leave this place in the dust and never look back.