Page 32 of Adoring Ink

A water droplet for today.

A taco, of all things, for their meal.

A bike for their first meeting.

A star…a star for their nightly ride under the stars.

A bridge for her fall.

“I know a guy who makes jewelry, and he helped me,” Brody explained as they made their way to the back of the ambulance. Brody was on a stretcher, and she was blinking hard by his side.

“Of course, you know a guy,” she said dryly. The EMT helped her into the back of the ambulance and she sat next to Brody as the other EMT worked. “I can’t believe you got this for me.”

“I’m missing one, though,” he whispered.

“You got everything,” she said softly. “What on earth could you be missing? You even got the taco.”

The EMT gave Brody a look. “You got your girl a taco charm bracelet?”

Brody grinned at Holly, that dimple peeking out once more. “You had to be there.”

“Apparently,” the EMT said deadpan.

“What is it missing?” Holly asked again.

“A rose,” he said simply. “For the tattoo you’re going to get.”

She blinked. “How…how on earth could you know that? I hadn’t even thought of what I wanted until recently, and I didn’t tell you.”

Brody reached out for her, and she carefully took his hand when the EMT nodded at her. “I know you, Holly. Just like you know me.”

She swallowed hard and did her best not to cry again. She’d cried far too much lately, and all she wanted to do now was just be.

“You’re way too good, you know that?” she said after a moment.

He frowned. “No, I’m not. But you make me a better man. So that’s all I need.”

She gripped his hand as they raced to the ER to make sure Brody was okay, but she knew they would be. They’d come from places where the world had threatened to take them down, and yet they’d risen from their own ashes. They weren’t the people they were when they’d been forced to face the fact that those who should have loved them couldn’t. But now, they were together, and she knew that no matter what happened, they would have each other.

She’d taken the greatest risk of all with Brody Deacon, and now she’d be able to have the most challenging adventure yet—loving him until the end of her days.

Epilogue

Brody threw his head back into the pillows, tangling his fingers in Holly’s hair as she sucked him into her mouth. He’d been right in thinking that the sight of her lips around his cock would be one of the sexiest things he’d ever seen in his life. He was just happy as hell that his ribs were finally healed from being bruised so that he could enjoy this.

She grinned as she let go of him and winked. “Like?”

“Love,” he growled. “Now get back to it. You promised me a birthday blowjob.”

She rolled her eyes. “It’s my birthday.”

“I know,” Brody teased. “That’s why I ate you out twice this morning already and made you come. Now, it’s my turn, since I always deny you my cock.”

She rolled her eyes and slid her hand up and down his shaft, the other hand playing with his balls. His eyes crossed when she squeezed, and he knew he was one lucky man.

“You always pull out and then fuck me into the mattress, so I really can’t complain,” she said with a laugh.

The sound of the word fuck from her lips made him want to do just that and grind her into the mattress as she mentioned, but he’d promised her he would behave.