“I want my parents there,” Ari said wistfully. “I want my father to give me away. I want my mother to see me in my dress. To help me with my hair and give me marriage and wedding night advice.”
He looked horrified. “Of course they’ll be there. What would make you think any differently? And really, Ari. Wedding night advice? Have I not shown you I’m more than capable in the wedding night department?”
She looked laughingly up at him. “Maybe I was thinking more about advice for me. And well, as far as the wedding goes, I wasn’t at all certain you weren’t going to haul me out of the hospital and to Vegas or something so we got married more quickly.”
“It’s tempting,” he mused. “But your mother would kill me.”
“And not my father?”
Beau laughed. “He’s a man, honey. He’d probably buy our airline tickets if I even mentioned eloping. Hell, he might even buy us our own plane. We hate wearing suits and monkey tails, remember?”
She rolled her eyes. “Whatever.”
Then her expression went soft and serious and she shifted as much as she was able to free up a small area beside her on the small bed. He knew without her saying what she wanted.
Gingerly, he maneuvered his big body against hers, carefully lifting her head so he could position one arm underneath her head, the other free to roam and caress the rest of her body.
“You think you can live with my powers?” she asked quietly.
He went still and then leaned back just enough that he could see her face. With his fingertips, he nudged her chin up so her gaze connected with his.
“I love you, Ari. Everything that makes you who you are. Everything about you. And if you come equipped to ward off an entire third-world nation’s army then I guess I won’t ever have to worry about getting my ass handed to me.”
Her eyes sparkled in the low light of the hospital room as she reached up to trace her fingers down his jawline.
“Having this cast on sucks,” she said huskily. “But I guess it’ll make our eventual wedding night all the more sweeter.”
“Honey, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but after six weeks with you and no sex my balls will be so blue that I give myself thirty seconds tops inside you before I have the mother of all premature ejaculations.”
She leaned up to nibble on his chin, eliciting a soft rumbling groan from his chest.
“My cast may knock me out of the orgasm game awhile, but I don’t see why you should suffer. There’s nothing wrong with my hands—or my mouth,” she finished with a throaty purr.
“Have mercy,” he rasped. “You’re killing me here, honey.”
“Mercy?” She laughed. “I can assure you, Beau. Mercy is the very last thing you’ll want from me over the next several weeks.”
Damn if she didn’t prove to be right about that.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MAYA BANKS is a #1 USA Today and New York Times bestselling author whose chart toppers have included erotic romance, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, and Scottish historical romances. She is the author of the Slow Burn series, the Surrender Trilogy, the Breathless Trilogy, the KGI novels, the Sweet series, and the Colters Legacy novels.
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Maya Banks's books
- A Princess of Landover
- Alex Van Helsing The Triumph of Death
- Alex Van Helsing Voice of the Undead
- Angel Falling Softly
- Awakening the Fire
- Becoming Sarah
- Biting Cold
- Black Moon Beginnings
- Blind God's Bluff A Billy Fox Novel
- Broken Wings (An Angel Eyes Novel)
- Cast into Doubt
- Celestial Beginnings (Nephilim Series)
- Defying Mars (The Saving Mars Series)
- Destiny Gift (The Everlast Trilogy)
- Destiny's Fire
- Dissever (Unbinding Fate Book One)
- Dominion (Guardian Angels)
- Fire Within
- Flirting Under a Full Moon
- Garrett Investigates
- Hot Blooded (Wolf Springs Chronicles)
- Hyacinth
- In the Arms of Stone Angels
- Industrial Magic
- Infinity Chronicles of Nick
- Influential_Magic
- Invincible (A Centennial City Novel)
- Invincible Chronicles of Nick
- Jenny Plague-Bringer
- Keeping Secret (Secret McQueen)
- Landed Wings
- Legon Awakening
- Living with the Dead
- Melting Stones
- Metro Winds
- Mind the Gap
- Mourning Cloak
- Neverwinter
- Nightingale (The Sensitives)
- Not Magic Enough and Setting Boundaries
- Of Wings and Wolves
- Possessing the Grimstone
- Prince of Spies
- Reckoning
- Serafina and the Silent Vampire
- Serafina and the Virtual Man
- Sin of Fury
- Sins of the Father
- Somewhere Over the Freaking Rainbow
- Sudden Independents
- Tainted Night, Tainted Blood
- The Beast Within (The Elite Series)
- The Breaking
- The Godling Chronicles The Shadow of God
- The Living Curse
- The Living End
- The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1
- The Original Sin
- The Reaping
- The_River_Kings_Road
- The Sentinel Mage
- The Source (The Mountain State Vampire S
- The Turning Tides
- The Warring States (The Wave Trilogy)
- Through the Door (The Thin Veil)
- Towering
- Villains Inc. (Wearing the Cape)
- Vindicated
- Virtual Virgin
- Waking Dreams (The Soul's Mark)
- Wicked Cravings (The Phoenix Pack Series
- Wicked Destiny
- Wings of Tavea
- Wings of the Wicked
- Winterblaze
- Woman King
- Dawn of Swords(The Breaking World)
- A Draw of Kings
- The Finisher
- Infinity Blade Awakening
- The Darkest Craving
- The Spider(Elemental Assassin series)
- A Witch Central Wedding
- The Indigo Spell
- The False Princess
- Skin Game: A Novel of the Dresden Files
- The Queen of the Tearling
- The Blinding Knife
- Monster Hunter International
- Sins of the Demon
- The Shadow Prince
- Skinwalker
- Feral Sins
- Dark Instincts
- Becoming Jinn
- An Ember in the Ashes
- Pall in the Family
- Nobody's Princess
- Sphinx's Queen
- Sphinx's Princess