Total pages in book: 27
Estimated words: 25180 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 126(@200wpm)___ 101(@250wpm)___ 84(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 25180 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 126(@200wpm)___ 101(@250wpm)___ 84(@300wpm)
“What is this idea, Gwen?” Corbet asks, his mouth busy on my neck.
My pulse begins to flounder. “I…idea? Oh, yes. Right.” I shift in his lap and savor his frustrated male groan. “Perhaps at the next Joining, we have a sword fighting competition. Only the men who best my sisters can offer for their hand in marriage.”
“But no man can beat them.”
I smile at him over my shoulder. “Precisely.”
His laughter cracks through the valley. “Oh, you’re good.”
“Yes,” I sigh, “But I’m only joking. We have to let them live their lives. Fall in love. Make mistakes and learn from them.”
“Some mistakes can’t be fixed in time,” Corbet rasps, banding his arms around me. So tight I can scarcely draw a breath. “Christ. Every time we come here, I think of almost losing you, Gwen. It brings me right back to the moment on the hill, waiting to see if the love of my life would choose me.”
“And I did.” I turn and kiss him on the mouth, our lips parting on a hot breath, that slow writhe of our tongues turning our breath shallow. “And there was really no choice to begin with. It was always you.”
Before I can kiss him again, Corbet stands with me in his arms, cradled to his chest, his boots eating up the distance to our tent. “Tell me again, wife, while I’m planted inside you. And again while the sweat cools. Every morning and every night of our lives.”
“It was always you,” I breathe into his neck. “It was always, always you.”
“And you are my always,” he says, emotion shaking his voice.
THE END