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Garrett’s voice cracked with e hih to feel the heat froreen eyes

"I had everything I ever wanted right in the palood to be true Suddenly, I didn’t deserve that girl I didn’t deserve the way she looked at me, the way she touched me, and the way she loved me The bad stuff is always easier to believe So I walked away before I could get hurt Before I could find out if the words she said were true and she’d really chosen h her tears They were both crying now, standing a breath apart, and it suddenly felt like a weight was lifted froet passed what happened to her in that bases she’d done She’d been so focused on getting rid of the nightht of her dreams Every word Garrett spoke reminded her that he was her dream Her father’s last request was that she be happy and not take anything for granted

Garrett was her happiness She’d always known that but there, in her father’s living roo her, Parker finally let her anger go and took hold of her future Garrett was the man she was meant to love, the man to lean on, and the man to lose herself in for the rest of her life

Like she’d told hio, it was always him

"The words were true And I still choose you," Parker told hih her tears She reached up and wiped away one of his own tears froainst the side of his face

Garrett let out a sigh of relief when he felt her touch

"I don’t deserve you," he whispered, bringing his own hand up to cup her cheek "I’ve let you down so reement as Garrett inched even closer to her so he could finally feel her against him He slid his arm around her waist and pulled her close so he could feel her heart beating against his chest

"It’s a good thing we have our whole lives ahead of us then so you can make it up to me," Parker told him with a smile

"I love you so much, Parker," Garrett told her

"I love you too, Garrett I always have"

They both ap between thehed into each other’s htly to each other and deepened the kiss, neither one ever wanting to let the other go

In the blink of an eye, their clothes were strewn across the floor of the living roo down onto his knees in front of Parker, his gaze zeroed in on the angry, red scar three inches above her hip bone He gently ran his fingertips over theher in his arms, his hands covered with her blood Garrett leaned forward and pressed a light kiss to the area that would always re her

Parker stood above hih his hair as he studied her scar She knew histo intrude on this moment so she moved her hand under his chin and lifted his face so she could see his eyes

"I’m okay," she reassured him softly

"I almost lost you," Garrett said as he stared up at her

"But you foundanywhere"

Parker dropped down onto her knees, not wanting to be so far away froain before he wrapped his arether

He couldn’t stop saying the words He couldn’t stop reassuring Parker how much she meant to him He put his endearments on hold and concentrated on the feel of Parker’s warotten how soft and sainst his, how the curve of her neck made him want to sink his teeth into her, and how her moans that echoed in his ear made him weak in the knees

Garrett touched every inch of the body that haunted his dreaers between Parker’s legs and the wet heat from her arousal coated hier He ached to be inside of her, to feel every inch of her wrapped around him, and to know that she was his That she would always be his

Parker arched her back and cried out softly when Garrett pushed his fingers inside of her and began otten just how talented he was at knowing how to touch her She’dher to the edge

Without uided Parker to the floor in front of the fireplace, positioning his, and she wrapped her thighs around his hips He continued to work his fingers inside of her, pulling in and out with slow, dragging ht she would shatter froh her

"I need you," Parker whispered softly as she wrapped her hands around the back of his head and pulled hiainst his lips "I don’t want to think about anything right now but you and me"

"I love you," Garrett told her onehis hand up to place his pal hiasped together and held perfectly still Garrett squeezed his eyes closed and buried his head in the crook of Parker’s neck trying not to explode iood it felt to finally be ho Garrett inside of her and slid her hands down his back, clutching onto hi hier and Parker was grateful for that She needed hs around Garrett’s hips as he began to thrust in and out of her Garrett let his lips and tongue taste every inch of Parker’s skin that he could reach without breaking their connection He couldn’t get enough of her and he never wanted this feeling to end Too soon though, Parker’s fingernails were scoring his back and her ainst hiainst her over and over until he felt Parker’s internalout of her