“I don’t care what the ring looks like,” Tiana said, pulling him to his feet and flinging her arms around him.
“If I’d known that I wouldn’t have spent so long choosing the right one,” he joked as he finally got the box open and showed it to her.
“Oh, maybe I do care.” She looked stunned as he took out the large diamond solitaire and slipped it on her finger. “It’s beautiful.”
“Just like you.” He kissed her lips as she looked at the ring over his shoulder. “I’d like your full attention, please.”
“You know that’s never going to happen,” she replied lightly as she stared into his eyes.
“Just in this moment.” He cupped her face with his hand and stroked her cheek. “Before we go and make plans for all our futures, let’s share this one moment. Just the two of us in the world.”
She kissed him, and they lost each other in their moment. Two hearts, two souls, all that mattered in the world.
As they broke apart, Tiana said, “There will always be a piece of me that is yours and yours alone in every moment, in every breath that I take and every beat of my heart.”
He could settle for that.
Epilogue
“Good morning.” Mason kissed her neck, inhaling her scent, while his hand stroked her swollen belly.
“It’s still there,” Tiana joked as she placed her hand over his.
“It. Shouldn’t we call our baby something more than it?” Mason asked, nuzzling her neck and sending tremors through her body.
“Like what? You know I don’t want to know what sex it is until it’s born.” She turned around to face him. At only four months pregnant she wasn’t a beached whale, but her bump did make moving around more awkward. “This was much easier the first time around. Age is not on my side.”
“I disagree,” Mason told her as he wrapped his arms around her. “With age comes wisdom and experience.”
“You make me sound even older than I am,” Tiana complained. She buried her face in his chest and sighed deeply.
“You are not old,” Mason insisted. “You are perfect, in every way.”
“You keep telling me that,” she said, and she had to admit, she liked hearing it.
“Well, if you are still questioning whether I’m telling you the truth, I haven’t told you enough times. Not yet anyway.”
“Thank you.” She leaned on her left elbow and stroked his chest with her other hand. She loved waking up with him each and every morning as the sun streamed in through the window.
“For what?” he asked, taking hold of her hand and kissing it.
“Everything.” She sighed in contentment. “For extending the house so cleverly so that there’s room for mom and dad to live downstairs and for us to live on the first floor.” She kissed his lips. “And for making room for Rhett to have his own space even though we are adding a new member to the family.”
She slid her hand over her baby bump. Originally the first floor was only going to have two bedrooms, but when they found out she was pregnant, Mason switched things around so that there were three rooms, so Rhett had a place to crash when he came home to visit.
“Anything for you and our family.” He cupped her face in his hand and kissed her lips. “I’m just glad you didn’t make me build an annex building for Quentin.”
Tiana giggled. “I figured there was only so much you would put up with. Anyway, he’s happy. He has a new boyfriend, and although they are taking it slow, he seems to be getting his life back together.”
“Then we’re all happy.”
“For now. Although if I could find a good man for Haley, I’d be even happier.” She was on the lookout for a nice shifter who would sweep Haley off her feet in the same way Mason had swept Tiana off her feet in a whirlwind romance.
“There’s someone out there for her somewhere.” Mason kissed her neck and murmured, “Just as I know there’s someone in here for you.”
She giggled and slid her leg over his thigh, reaching between their bodies and slipping her hand around his hardened length, inching her body lower until he entered her.
Mason groaned as he thrust into her. The feel of him inside her never got old. Each time they made love was like the first time. He excited her. Set every nerve ending in her body on fire as he made love to her.
He cupped her breast in his hand and lowered his head, swirling his tongue over the taut bud in an endless motion that drove her wild. Tiana stroked his skin, planting small butterfly kisses along his shoulder. Mason placed his hand on the small of her back and pulled her closer as if he could climb inside her skin.
Tiana had never been this close to another person either physically or emotionally. The bond between them connected them on a level she could not comprehend and would never fully understand. But she believed in it all the same, just as she believed in Mason, her man, her mate.
Their bodies moved in perfect symmetry, heat rising as he thrust into her. She came, her body reaching its climax first, but Mason followed, staying with her, always with her.
When at last they lay sated in each other’s arms, she knew she was in the right place at the right time. Just as she had been all those months ago when she took a chance on hope. She took a chance on love. She took a chance on her blind date bear.
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