Total pages in book: 215
Estimated words: 199344 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 997(@200wpm)___ 797(@250wpm)___ 664(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 199344 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 997(@200wpm)___ 797(@250wpm)___ 664(@300wpm)
Dusk is just starting to fall over East View when Noah brings his Camaro to a stop outside the fanciest hotel in town. My brows furrow as I look toward him. “What are we doing here?”
“It’s hardly romantic spending our wedding night under your parents’ roof,” he tells me. “Especially considering that they’ll know exactly what we’re doing.”
My cheeks flush, and I try not to think about just how right he is. The fact that we’re spending the night in a hotel is even more of a reason for my parents to know what we’re doing. But we’re married now, and nothing is going to stop me from getting to spend my wedding night with the man I love. My husband.
“Thank you,” I tell him. “Now hurry up and take me to bed. I haven’t been able to kiss you the way I really want to kiss you with everyone’s eyes on us all day, and if I don’t get to put my hands on you soon, there’s no telling what I might do.”
Noah gapes at me for a moment. I’ve always been forward when I needed intimacy with him, but it usually comes with flushed cheeks and a shy smile, but not tonight, not now.
Noah helps me out of the car and hands his keys to the valet before sweeping me right up into his arms, the delicate train of my dress hanging below. He carries me right into the elevator, his lips on mine the whole way up to the thirty-fourth floor. And when he slides the keycard into the reader and opens the door, a soft gasp slips between my lips.
The room is incredible, but it has nothing on the city views out the floor-to-ceiling windows, and I have to pull away from Noah, needing a moment to take it all in. He sets me on my feet, making sure I’m balanced before allowing me to step out of his strong arms. I make my way across the room and right over to the impressive window as I gaze out at the sunset dancing across the windows of the high-rise building around us. I’ve never seen anything like it.
I’m taking it all in when I feel Noah’s warm fingers at my shoulder, gently brushing over my skin, trailing all the way down my elbows to my hands. My fingers catch his and then his lips are at the base of my throat, and I tilt my head, opening up for more.
His other hand takes my waist, and he turns me until those lips are coming down on mine. Fire burns through my veins, and I push up on my tippy toes, needing to be closer to him. He fingers the beaded strap on my gown, pushing it down over my shoulder, his fingers so sensual over my skin. I need so much more.
He takes his time, kissing me deeply and worshiping every inch of my body as I reach up between us and start unbuttoning his suit shirt.
My dress falls away, and as I free him from the confines of his pants, his hands skim over my ass, effortlessly lifting me. Wrapping my legs securely around him, I hold on for dear life as he turns and walks us over to the massive bed, and as he lays me down against the pillow, he pulls back from our kiss. “I love you so fucking much, Zoey,” he tells me. “This right here, with you in my arms as my wife, I’ll always remember us this way.”
Tears form in my eyes, and I nod, absolutely breathless. “I know,” I tell him, my hand sliding down from his shoulder to his chest, feeling the way his heart beats beneath my palm. “Remember us just like this.”
He nods, his lips coming back down to mine, and when he reaches out over the bed to grab the small foil packet, I shake my head. “Not tonight, Noah,” I murmur. “I just want to feel you.”
He holds my stare a moment longer, and while I’m sure there are a million reasons why we shouldn’t, there are also a million reasons why we should. What it really comes down to is that I love this man with everything I am, just as I told him in my vows, and with only a handful of weeks left, I want to spend every single moment I can feeling the way he makes me come alive. Feeling him and only him.
Noah nods, and not a moment later, he reaches down and grasps my thigh, hitching it high over his hip, and with that, he pushes inside of me, his lips moving over mine.
58
Zoey
Newly wedded bliss has consumed me over these past few weeks, and it’s been so much more than I thought it would be, but I can’t lie, I know my time is coming soon. I can feel it in my bones. I’m almost at the end, and having to watch Noah’s heart break every time he walks into my room is tearing me to shreds.