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Cian

Six months later

Our season ended in May when the Richland Renegades knocked the Aces out during the second round of the playoffs. The team was disappointed, but already talking training plans for the coming season, including new trades and sourcing some promising rookies.

I’d just broken down another cardboard box when the sound of keys in the door caught my attention. Blair burst inside, raced across the room and threw herself at me, knowing I’d always catch her. Wrapping her legs around my waist, she covered my face in kisses as I walked us over to the sofa.

“Good news?” I guessed, sitting down with her straddling my lap.

“I got the job! Dante’s going to keep training me for now, and I’ll be your official PR manager come the first game of preseason.”

I kissed her hard, trying to convey how fucking proud of her I was. She’d worked her ass off to get here, and it made me so happy to see my team recognize how much she deserved it.

She looked over my shoulder, taking in the room around us.

“You’ve been busy.”

When Blair’s lease came up for renewal last month, we decided it wasn’t worth keeping two houses, and seeing as we spent more time here, we decided she’d move in with me. While she was blowing away my team’s executives, I’d been unpacking boxes to remove the trip hazards around the house. Plus, I wanted her settled so she couldn’t change her mind.

“Yup.” I stretched my arms along the back of the sofa, loving the feeling of her squirming with excitement on my lap. And completely unrepentant about the erection straining at my hips.

“Insatiable,” she muttered with a grin, sliding off the sofa to position herself between my knees.

“With you? Always.” I lifted my hips as she slid my sweatpants to my ankles, then ran her tongue up my shaft. She sucked my head between her lips and took me all the way to the back of her throat, humming as she bobbed over me. When she started to squirm, I pulled her up, waving off her noise of protest as I stripped her pants from her legs and lay along the couch.

“I’m not stopping you, I want you to ride my face.”

She pecked a kiss on my lips before following instructions as beautifully as usual. She swung a leg over my head, lowering her hips until I could bury my tongue in her sweet pussy and went right back to playing with my balls as she mouthed at my shaft. Her lavender and honey scent filled my nose as she rocked against my tongue, her mouth becoming more and more enthusiastic as she lost herself in the sensation. I looped an arm around her leg and pushed two fingers deep into her core, giving her something to push back on as I flattened my tongue and lapped at her clit. Her moan vibrated through my balls, making them pull tight against my body. Fuck, the view, the taste, the smell, all of it conspired against me as her hot mouth took me all the way inside again. Adding a third finger, I worked to get her there first, but lost the battle as she scraped her teeth along my length. I came with a curse, my hips bucking uncontrollably as she swallowed through the aftershocks. As soon as I settled, I turned her around so she could fuck my face until she covered me with her juices.

I licked my lips as she shuffled down my body, curling against my side with a contented sigh.

“How are you feeling? I asked.

“Sleepy. I’ll get up in a minute, though, otherwise we’ll be late.”

I hummed in agreement. Our appointment was the only thing that could have made me want to leave the house after a session like that. Even still, there was a part of me that wanted to postpone and take Blair upstairs to drag another half dozen orgasms from her.

I could never get enough. Which was why I had something burning a hole in my pocket that, in retrospect, I was glad she hadn’t noticed when she stripped me before.

Was it tacky to propose after sex? Definitely.

I should wait.

Maybe take her back to that Japanese restaurant she liked.

“Marry me.”

Shit .

“What?”

“When we tell this story in the future, we can pretend I did it in some romantic way, and not half naked on the sofa with your pussy juices drying on my face, but I have no filter around you. Marry me. Please.”

“If I say yes now, will you give me a redo so there’s a safe for work version of this story?”

My body shook with the urge to laugh.

“Definitely.”

“Then yes. Pending a better story.” She pulled me into a kiss, then sat up, slapping my thigh a little too close to my balls for comfort.

“Come on. Let’s get changed and head out.”

The Austin Animal Allies shelter looked the same as always, which felt a little weird considering the life-changing decisions that had happened already today.

The round cut diamond that Mia helped me buy sparkled on Blair’s hand where it sat in mine, and I couldn’t stop looking at it.

She’d agreed to marry me.

And we were about to complete our little family.

I’d spent time thinking about how Katie had comforted Seelie with footage of me, and floated the idea with the shelter of providing videos of Blair, Oscar, and Mia, so she could become used to them, too. We’d experimented over the last couple of weeks first with Blair, then Oscar, then finally Mia with a very anxious Oscar hovering nearby. Mia’s belly was round as a basketball, and Seelie had laid her head against it, like she could hear the baby inside.

Our little found family had all agreed to help with the care of Seelie, so she’d never be alone, and Katie had offered to dog sit if Mia needed a break while we were away.

At the end of the row, the cage rattled and Seelie emerged wearing a halter and led by Katie. I accepted the lead and took my girls outside, getting Seelie situated in the crate we’d trained her to use, and headed home.

Oscar and Mia were planning to meet us later for dinner to officially meet Seelie in her new home and celebrate our engagement.

Blair wanted me to edit our engagement story already, but they’d know.

Family always knew.

I laced my fingers through hers and raised her fist to my mouth as we steered through the streets of Austin.

I had my sport, my dog, and my woman.

Luckiest guy ever.

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