“If I had, would we be here now?”
“Probably,” I admit, positioning my swollen tip at her edge.
Over her shoulder, Madison asks, “Seriously?” her voice deeper and excited for me to penetrate.
“I think when you find the right person, it doesn’t matter when you fuck.” Ever-so-slowly diving into her body, I relish the pleasure as my ten inches disappear. “Waiting is a manipulation.”
Maddie moans, “Bullshit!” as we start to move. “You’d have rubber-banded and then maybe never have snapped back.”
“That would have been a loss,” I groan, massaging her cheeks with my thumbs as the thick tips of my fingers dig in. “You feel so good, Slugger.”
She’s tight, slippery wet, and with this sneaky location and family voices from that wedding in the background, my shaft is rock-fuckin-hard. As we fuck in the darkness, my thighs catch fire with the increasing pleasure. Throwing my head back I move a little quicker, then slow it up, leaning forward to reach around and play with Maddie’s clit. She writhes in response.
“Nicholas, I’m close!”
“Not yet. I want to stretch this out.”
My girl whimpers, “So good. You feel so good inside me.”
These words are fuel but I keep control of myself, fucking her just like she likes it, moving to a beat with her moans, drawing out the pulses I can feel because with every thrust, they stretch and embrace my stiff length more.
On a sharp intake of breath, Madison quivers around me, her tiny earthquakes fast and furious.
I grimace, groan, and rise up to grab onto her ass with both hands, fucking her with long, hot thrusts until everything breaks free inside me, too.
She moans as I fill her.
The heat pulses out of me and I whisper something I don’t even mean to say, but I do mean.
“I love you.”
She stiffens, glances back. “Really?”
I laugh, “Yeah.”
“I love you, too!”
Our bodies are still joined, and we stay like this as the pulses calm, my fingers tracing her beautiful hips.
“You guys need a napkin?” a male voice asks from the shadows as two pairs of footsteps crunch toward us.
Maddie gasps and we separate in a hurry.
Denise laughs, “It’s just me and Tonk Jr!”
Laughing, I pull her dress down, looking over as I zip up my pants.
I’ve met the guy before—he’s Celia’s brother—but we’ve never spent any time together because our family hasn’t been to this plantation but maybe twice.
Tonk Jr. has grown into a handsome guy with a collegiate-feel to him, not at all like the bikers he calls family.
“I brought this for us, but you can have it.”
Denise smacks his arm. “Tell all my secrets!”
He grins, “Sorry,” knowing she doesn’t really care. “You said she’s your best friend. Figured you shared everything.”
Denise sighs an amused, “Men!”
As I take the napkin from his extended hand and give it to Maddie, I chuckle, “You okay?”
She rolls her eyes. “At least it was just them.”
Denise teases her, “Well, I’ve been here your whole life, might as well be here when you get pregnant, too!”
“Don’t say that!”
Laughing, I take Madison’s hand. “Let’s go back to the wedding. We’ll leave you two alone. But do us a favor. Find another tree. This one’s ours.”
Tonk Jr. announces with a grin, “These are all mine. I live here!”
“Well, I claimed that one,” I smirk as Maddie and I start walking back.
Denise challenges him, “I thought you said you were moving to New York to study at Colombia?”
He answers, “I am, but this will always be my home.”
Their voices fade in the distance.
CHAPTER 43
N ICHOLAS
A lone now, Maddie whispers, “You love me.”
On a laugh I confess, “I do.”
She stops walking and touches my face. “I think I loved you the first night I saw you, Nicholas.”
With a slow kiss I let those sweet words settle into my chest. As we separate my voice is hoarse with emotion. “I felt the same way about you.”
“Yes I did.” Pulling her close, I remind her, “When I finally saw you, it was love at first sight. I’m sorry it took so long.”
Maddie’s lips part and tears spring to her eyes. With them hovering, her smile looks so beautiful.
And so mine.
I think at one point I’d declared I’d be the last of my siblings to get married. I probably said that many times over the years, in my own mind and aloud.
But the baby boy we don’t know we just conceived, has other plans for my future. Just like how meeting Maddie, and saving Bucky, changed my life for the better when I never planned it, our son will open my heart beyond anything I could have imagined.
It’ll be pretty quickly that I’ll come to understand why my dad is so protective of us kids. When I look at my future wife, I’ll have the same love in my eyes I’ve seen in his for Mom.
I will know in my chest and in my gut and in my soul, that what matters most, is love.
How you show it.
How you live it.
How you stand up for it.
It’s all just love.
“Nicholas,” Madison asks as she enjoys Grandma Nance’s chili beside me at the tables that we brought onto the back lawn for this reception, “What are you thinking about?”
“Mmm?” I hum, mouth full.
“You were scanning the party with this wistful look on your face.”
Chuckling I swallow jambalaya, and deny she hit the nail on the head. “Men don’t get wistful.”
She stifles a smile. “My mistake.”
My cousin Emma walks up with her husband, Tanner, both of them carrying overflowing plates. They pause at our table.
Emma asks, “Madison, right?”
“Yes,” Maddie smiles, looking a little shy.
“Charlie tells me you’re great with kids. And Grandma Nance called me up to suggest we have you come by and see if you can help with ours.”
Tanner explains, “I opened an orphanage and we could use some more qualified help, if that’s something you’d be interested in.”
Madison explodes with an ecstatic and shocked, “Yes! I’d love that!”
Emma grins at her, “We’ll exchange numbers before we all head back to Atlanta.”
“Amazing! Thank you!”
Leaning in a little closer, Emm whispers to me, “Did you see your sister mooning over Ryder? I think that crush is still alive and well.”
Chuckling I glance over to Zoe who is unabashedly gazing at Tanner’s raven-haired nephew. And he’s got no clue. “We’ll see how that plays out.”
My cousin Hannah and Tobias call over to Emma and her man, motioning that they saved them seats.
As soon as they’re out of earshot, Maddie and Denise quietly freak out with excitement over the job proposition, whispering about how it would be so much better for her than working in a clothing store.
Proud as hell of my family for coming to Madison’s aid, I call out over the many voices of both the Cockers and the Ciphers, “Hey Grams! Why’d you start yelling language whenever we swear? How did that begin?”
Conversations hush in an instant, everyone equally curious.
May Cocker’s blue eyes twinkle as she calls back in her sweet southern drawl, “I’ll never tell.”
Many of us go up in arms, shouting, “Oh, come on!”
But she just shakes her head and winks at me.
THE END.
I hope you enjoyed Nicholas and Maddie’s love story. His brothers and sister will all get their stories told, and he’ll show up again. Wyatt’s novel is out now, Book 23. You can jump forward or turn the pages for the next book in the timeline of Cock
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Contents
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
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