Giving You Forever
By
Ashley Wilcox
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Giving You Forever
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Dedication
Gram,
You’ve believed in me when others haven’t, been there for me when others weren’t, and encouraged me when I lost sight. So much of who I am today is a reflection of how much you have done for me and guided me through life’s obstacles, teaching me to be whoever I feel inside, that no mountain is too high to climb. I owe so much of my success to you and that’s why this book is dedicated to you.
Love you, Gram!
Prologue
“Can I have everyone’s attention please?”
The noise and chatter become silent, and all eyes shift to the front of the terrace where Alexa and I are standing.
“I just want to thank you all for coming tonight,” I begin with a champagne glass in my left hand and my other arm wrapped tightly around Alexa’s waist. “From the moment I laid eyes on Alexa, I knew she was the one for me. This last year has been the most unbelievable time of my life and it’s because of this beautiful woman next to me.” I pause to give her a quick glance. “So many times I had to bite my tongue to keep myself from asking her to marry me, afraid that she’d run for the hills thinking I was crazy, but come last month I just couldn’t wait any longer. I finally popped the question and thankfully, she said yes.”
A small chuckle erupts amongst the crowd of people.
“Alexa and I are so happy to have you all here to celebrate with us.” I lean down and kiss her temple. “We also want to thank Alexa’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, for putting together this beautiful engagement party. This,” I motion to the elegantly covered tables and the big canvas lanterns hanging from the trees, the endless stations of food, and the over the top private bar, “is all their doing and we appreciate it all.”
“Yes, thank you Mom and Dad,” Alexa adds in her sweet voice.
Both of her parents smile and her mom blows us a kiss. Having their blessing is a breath of fresh air. I thought they were going to chop my balls off when I originally asked permission to marry Alexa. She’s only a freshman in college, why can’t you wait? Don’t you think you guys are moving a little too quickly? But after melting their hearts by confessing my undying love for their daughter, I’ve had their blessing and support ever since.
“Now let’s all eat and have a good time…cheers!” I hold up my champagne glass, toasting to our guests.
After taking a quick swig, I turn to my beautiful bride to be and pull her snug into my chest. “I wish I could just marry you right now,” I whisper against her lips before kissing them gently.
“Me too, but I’d like to be able to legally drink at my own wedding,” Alexa smiles, bringing her arms up around my neck. “Aren’t you supposed to get hammered at your wedding and have crazy hot sex afterwards?” she continues, her fuck me eyes giving me an instant hard-on.
“Since when do I need you sloshed to have hot sex? I can get that whenever I want.” I bring my mouth down next to her ear and whisper, “You just won’t be able to walk for days after the things I do to you the night we say I do.”
Affected by my words, she swallows hard as her body softens in my arms. I know she’s picturing what my cock is thinking, and for a second I wonder where the closest restroom is to give my love a little sneak peek. If there’s one problem that we have in our relationship, it’s that we can’t keep our damn hands off each other. We could fuck and make love from sun up to sun down. You’d think after being together for over a year it would mellow out a little, but no, we still screw like rabbits and it gets better each and every time.
Knowing that we’re at a party being thrown for us, I try to calm my urge to bend her over and have my way with her. Instead, I kiss her cheek with a “this will be taken care of later” look and link our hands together, joining the rest of the party.
Chapter One
Almost Three Years Later
– NOLAN –
The house is quiet, and all the lights are off downstairs as I make my way through the kitchen, down the hallway, and up the stairs. I hear the television and see a light flickering from the master bedroom. A pinch of excitement surges through my body.
I love when she waits for me in bed.
On my way to our room, I anxiously undo my tie and unclasp the first few buttons to my shirt before untucking it from my pants. Just thinking about what choice of bedtime wear she has picked out tonight makes me hard and ready. Licking my lips before turning the corner, I’m a little caught off guard with what’s waiting for me on the other side. Instead of my sexy and willing fiancé spread out over our bed, I find a pissed off Alexa sitting up with her arms folded across her chest.
“Where have you been?” she shouts before I can even take two steps into the room.
Shit! She’s really pissed.
Coming up aside the bed, I sit down next to her so that my body is facing her.
“What do ya mean–I was working?” I answer in a sincere, yet confused tone while resting my hand on her thigh.
“You were supposed to meet me at Justin’s Grill three hours ago, Nolan!”
Fuck!
I close my eyes and drop my chin to my chest while exhaling in shame. I completely forgot about the meeting.
“Yeah, nothing like showing up to an appointment for a wedding venue and being stood up by your fiancé,” she adds. “I felt like a complete idiot, Nolan. I can’t do this all on my own. I need your help.”
My gut knots picturing her face while checking her watch every few minutes wondering where I was. I stood my fiancé up while trying to plan our wedding.
What a fucking asshole I am!
Scooting in closer to her and resting my hand on her cheek, I make sure I look her square in the eyes when I tell her, “I’m so sorry, doll.”
I can feel Alexa’s body relax as she exhales. “I know you’re crazy busy with trying to get your gym opened up, but I need you, Nolan, and you didn’t even have your phone on when I called.”
Her tone is sincere this time, but it still pains me to know how exhausted and alone she feels in this whole process. The last thing I want is for planning our wedding to be a dreadful experience for her. I want to see the smile on Alexa’s face and the warmness in her eyes that I saw the day I asked her to marry me. I know girls dream about what their wedding day is going to look and feel like from the moment they learn what a wedding is…I want her to have her fairytale.
“I had meetings all afternoon, so I had my phone off, but it’s not acceptable. I should’ve been there, and I feel like shit that I wasn’t. What about our family? My sister would love to help, and you know your mother would jump on board immediately.”
“I already said no to this, remember?” she sighs. “Your sister is crazy busy with work, and my parents have done so much already with the engagement party and everything else. I wanted to be able to do this ourselves, and not have to rely on anyone else.”
Right. I knew this.
“Okay, how do we fix this, then? How can we make this work? I, unfortunately, can’t be in two places at once.”
“Well…” she begins with the cutest fucking smirk. But as cute as it is, it’s also the same smirk that I know means she has something crazy planned out in her head already. “I researched some wedding planners in the area, and I found a really great one, but…”
Elated with her Plan B, I interrupt, “No buts. That sounds fantastic. Why don’t you call them tomorrow?” I lean in and kiss her gently. Alexa presses back slightly. “They’re really expensive, though, babe. We’d be going
way
over budget.”
Although I’d give Alexa the world if I could, I’ve learned over the past few years that I should ask the price before saying yes. The girl likes to spend money and can do it rather quickly.
“How much are we talkin’?”
Her grin grows a little sweeter with the perfect amount of sexy as her hands start to move slowly down my chest, unclasping the buttons of my shirt on the way.
She’s good.
Moving to her knees, she brings her mouth to the side of my face and whispers in the hottest voice imaginable, “Just five thousand.”
Five thousand! For a fill-in fiancé? They better kiss her damn feet, too!
With opening my own fitness gym, the wedding, and the random expenses of being a homeowner, I’ve been writing checks left and right. The thought of adding five grand on top of that is not a pleasant thought. Knowing how happy it’ll make Alexa and how it’ll allow her to have the wedding of her dreams and not to mention, I’m getting so fucking turned on with her hands now undoing my pants and seeing her nipples hard and screaming my name through her silk top, I happily agree.
“Book’em,” I growl against her lips before pinning her down on the bed and seducing her mouth with my tongue while running my hand up under her top, squeezing her eager and waiting breast.
“Oh, I love you,” she moans once we come up for air and start removing each other’s clothes.
“More than you could ever imagine, doll,” I reply, spreading her legs as my mouth slides in between them.
Just as her fingers tangle in my hair and her hips move up and down, I swirl my tongue around her clit. With the way her breathing deepens and the sexy ass moans that escape her mouth when I go down on her, I’ve made it a pre-sex ritual to get her off with my tongue before filling her with my cock.
Starting to feel my dick throb with its own heartbeat, and wanting to get inside of her now, I do what I know will send Alexa over the edge. Sucking her nub forcefully in my mouth, I push two fingers deep inside, massaging over her sweet spot within. In seconds, her hands fist in my hair and her body clenches.
“Oh god,” she moans as her body surges into a hot as hell orgasm.
Moving my mouth up her body, I take a second to greet her perfectly plump breasts before making my way up to Alexa’s beautifully pleasured face.
God, how I love seeing what I do to her.