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“I did. I do,” she whispered.

Vinnie nodded. “I want you, too. I am so sorry I packed your stuff and left you that note. I never should have done either. I?—”

“I ripped the note up and never read it,” she confessed. “And I moved all my stuff back in.”

Vinnie breathed a laugh. “Good. On both.”

“Are you sure?”

“More than I’ve ever been about anything. I love you, Lorelei Sloane.”

“Thank God. It took you long enough to say it. I thought I was going to have to re-pack all my stuff and ask Karli if I could move in with her.”

“Please stay, Lorelei.” He cupped her jaw and tilted her face up to meet his gaze. “Let me prove I’m worthy of you.”

“You honestly think you’re not?”

He shook his head. “No one is worthy of you. You’re… amazing. And I’m the lucky one you chose to be with. I want you to know you will always be the one I choose. I will always want a place in your life. I will always want to take care of you.”

“I have a lot of needs.”

“I promise to fulfill all of them.”

“Can we start now? Because it was really lonely sleeping without you last night. I missed you a lot.”

He slid his hands down to her ass and squeezed both cheeks. “How much is a lot?”

“So much that I don’t think it’ll take any work at all to get me to come.”

“Oh, yeah?”

“Yeah. Make love to me, Vinnie.”

He growled at her words and lifted her. She wrapped her legs around his hips and kissed him while he carried her to the bedroom. He set her down inside the bedroom door and they worked together to yank clothes off, leaving them in a puddle for later.

He rolled a condom on as she laid on the bed, then he positioned himself between her wet thighs. In two strokes, he was fully seated in her.

“Fuck, you’re wet.”

“I’ve been hoping we would end up here. I’ve been thinking about all the ways I was going to convince you to love me.”

He shook his head. “I’m sorry I was such an idiot. That I tried to push you away.”

“You’re not going to do that again,” she said, reaching up to cup his jaw.

“Never.” He kissed her palm, then her wrist. He withdrew his hips and slammed hard into her.

“Yes,” she breathed.

He reached between them and pressed down on her clit, already there and needing to feel her come on his cock.

“Vinnie,” she moaned. “Oh, yes.”

She came softly, her eyes locked on his and her body pulling him over the edge with her.

He rolled to the side and pulled her with him, holding her tight and knowing he was never going to let her go.

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