Her head popped up. “What?”
“Tonight and forever,” I said. “You’re not a guest anymore in this house. Or in this bed. I want you here. You’re not some woman I want to fuck. I want to fuck you and hold you. I want to wake up tomorrow and have you again. I want to love you…”
Ava grinned. “Big bad outlaw is turning to mush.”
“I blame the pain meds,” I said and laughed.
“You saved me,” Ava said. “You were everything I’d been waiting for.”
“I’m sorry you lost everything.”
“I didn’t lose a thing,” Ava said. “I gained everything. You, Jace.”
I kissed her. She kissed me back.
“I fucking love you, sweetie,” I finally said. I had to get it out there.
Ava climbed on top of me.
I had plans for sleep.
She had plans for something else.
chapter thirty-one
(ava)
AN HOUR LATER
I opened my eyes. My head was on Jace’s chest. He was naked. I lifted the sheet and looked at his dick. Even when he wasn’t hard he was big. I bit my lip and felt my inner thighs tremble.
I propped my chin on his chest and watched him sleep.
I watched the sexy outlaw sleep.
He was gorgeous. So rough around the edges. His tattoos and muscles making him look like every parents worst nightmare for their daughter.
But he was my dream man. Not a knight in white but an outlaw in black.
I couldn’t have imagined anything more perfect. Even with everything as a mess.
Dad had his insurance money and promised to stay away from problems. I couldn’t control him though. That was his life. My mother would forever remain a memory, perhaps an angel watching over me. Her murder wasn’t technically solved in the eyes of the police, but in my eyes and heart, it was solved. I now understood what Jace did and what it meant.
Maybe in life there weren’t good guys and bad guys.
There were just lines. Some lines you could cross, some lines you couldn’t. An outlaw like Jace didn’t give a shit about any lines. He did what he wanted.
He’d forever protect me. I’d forever hold him when he needed me.
I took a deep breath and smiled.
I felt okay. I felt alive. I felt loved.
I reached up and traced the chiseled jaw of Jace’s face.
“I love you too, outlaw…”
THE END.