Page 48 of Now and Forever

The bed creaked, but Golden was too delirious to care. She could feel Grayson's movements and heard the rustle of clothes. Opening her eyes, she froze at the sight of his glorious naked body kneeling tall between her legs. Fearfully, she stared at the thick length of him jutting from between his legs.

Her mouth went dry and Grayson leaned forward, planting a hand onto the bed beside her.

Oh God, this was it. Her body tightened even as her eyes locked onto his.

Sensing her nervousness, Grayson lowered himself until his lips ghosted against hers. "Shh," he whispered, as if soothing a wild horse. "Trust me, sweetheart. I love you far too much to let you feel anything other than pleasure."

Golden's body immediately reacted to his words, softening and heating as she felt the head of him push against her entrance. Opening her legs wider for him, she wound her arms around his neck. "Tell me again. Please," she begged.

Knowing what she wanted, he pushed himself deeper inside, his buttocks flexing beneath her legs as he pushed himself to the hilt receiving a small gasp from her. "I love you," he groaned.

Breathing heavily, Grayson pushed himself up and looked down between them before his dark eyes flicked back up to hers. "You're doing so good. You're taking me so well, sweetheart."

Golden made a whimpering sound at his praise. She could imagine her pussy, wet and stretched to its limit around the fat base of his cock.

Shifting his weight again he began to move inside her. They both groaned at the rock of his hips. His muscled thighs pushing her legs wider apart, Grayson drove into her harder with eachthrust, letting her feel every single inch of him before bottoming out at the entrance to her womb. Again and again, she felt the thick head of his cock hit her cervix coaxing a cry from her each time.

His eyes, which hadn't let hers go for a second, narrowed as his hand appeared around her throat. Tightening his fingers, they could both feel the pressure of her swallow as his balls slapped against her ass with each violent thrust.

Golden gasped and stared up at him with wide eyes as her walls tightened around his shaft.

"For years I've thought of you," he rasped against her lips. "For years I've mourned your loss in my life. Agonized who you were giving your smile to."

Golden whimpered and his hand tightened. "Please," she begged.

"Please what?" he licked the tear falling down her cheek, his hips never stopping as he ground into her.

Golden closed her eyes, her fists twisting into the linen beside her. "Give me more."

Grayson removed his hand and bit her neck. "I'll never stop," he vowed." Do you understand me? You and I are bound together for life, now and forever. I will never let you leave me again."

Golden closed her eyes to his beautiful words. It was all she ever wanted.

A white-hot heat spread through her, stealing her very breath and tightening every muscle in her body. At the same time,Grayson's body went rigid over hers and he dropped his head to her shoulder, letting out a deep guttural groan.

Sometime later when the fire died down to a small flame, Grayson shifted in bed beside her and got out. Fully nude, he walked unconcerned across the room and threw a few logs onto the fire and stoked the flames until they blazed hot. Going to his luggage, he produced a handful of small boxes and brought them back to the bed. Settling under the covers once more, he leaned against the headboard and looked lovingly down at her as he opened the first rectangular velvet box. Inside he pulled out a stunning diamond bracelet.

"This was a gift I talked myself out of giving you your junior year," he said quietly, snapping the bracelet onto her wrist.

Fully awake now, Golden held the cover to her breasts and sat up and stared in shock at the gleaming bracelet. "Grayson, you didn't have to-"

Holding up a hand to pause her, he pulled out another box, a small velvet ring box. "This is the ring I stared at for hours in Paris thinking of you as you ran away from me two years ago."

Grayson slipped the simple gold ring band, delicately studded with tiny diamonds, onto her left ring finger, ignoring her shocked expression.

"And this," he said, pulling out the final small black leather ring box and opening it to reveal a large diamond ring surrounded by a cluster of diamonds set on a gold ring. "This is the ring I swore to myself you would be wearing on your finger, as my wife by the time we return home."

This time he did not slip the ring onto her finger; he held it up to the light. "Read it," he whispered.

Leaning forward, doing her best to fight back the tears tightening her throat, Golden read the inscription. "To my Golden, now and forever."

Golden let him slip the ring onto her finger before she buried both hands in his hair and pulled him down for a kiss.

She had loved him back then, she loved him now, and she would love him forever.

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