Vegas Aces: The Wide Receiver Complete Series

CHAPTER 31 TRISTAN

You know when you wait for something for more than half your life, and then the day comes, and it’s really not what you thought it would be?

I look at the woman in the room with me, and I can’t help but think how this moment is what those dreams were made of…but somehow better. More. Perfect.

She is better. More. Perfect.

She’s not the teenager I fell in love with. She’s a woman now. A wife. A mother. A friend—my best friend. A caretaker. She’s organized, crafty, smart, and funny. She’s real.

She’s everything Savannah never was, and I think maybe that was the draw I had to Savannah. I wanted someone who was Tessa’s opposite because I hated that we couldn’t be together.

Mission accomplished—on both counts, I suppose.

I loosened my tie, and now I take it off and toss it on the dresser.

She’s standing near the window, taking off her earrings and setting them on the table beside her. She’s sliding the bracelets off her wrists. She’s about to reach for the clasp of her necklace, but I want that honor for myself.

I walk over toward her and move in behind her, my front to her back. Her hair is up in some fancy twist, and I lean in toward her, breathing her in as I get close. I unclasp the necklace from behind and set it on the same table with the rest of her jewelry, and then I lean forward and press my lips to her neck.

I inhale as I do it, and it feels like the only breath I’ll ever need to take, like I can sustain the rest of my life simply by surviving on her. And in some ways, I suppose that’s true. My heart is full, still cracked in some places, but the commitment we made to one another today healed some of those cracks.

We’re still missing a member of our family, but we also know he’s in good hands. In fact, Miranda called Tessa just yesterday to let us know Logan was released. The rest of his recovery will be at home, and soon school will start again, and though he won’t be able to go into the classroom until his immune system is healed, he’ll be able to do the same work as his classmates and he’ll get to see them via Zoom calls.

I exhale softly before breathing her in again, my lips trailing on her skin.

It’s not perfect, but it’s damn near as close as we can get. Life is messy and complicated, though, and there’s no one else I’d rather straighten it up or simplify it with than the woman I married today.

She tilts her head to the side, giving me better access of her neck, and I offer more kisses. I trail them down her back toward the zipper holding her dress together. I pull it down, the soft zip the only sound in the room aside from the hitch of her breath.

I press kisses to her back as I follow the path, and I unhook the strapless bra she’s wearing when I expose the clasp. I pull the dress down her body, and she steps out of it, still facing the windows. I pick the dress up from the floor and set it carefully over a chair, and then I move in behind her again. In the window’s reflection, I see her standing before me. She wears only a pair of lacy white panties, and I see her gorgeous, lush tits, her stomach that carried not just one but two babies. All I see is this gorgeous woman who has given me everything I’ve ever wanted.

I reach around her and feel the soft skin of her stomach.

“It’s not how it used to be,” she says a little hesitantly.

I spin her around so suddenly that she giggles a little breathlessly until her eyes connect with mine. “Your body is the most beautiful body I have ever seen. You have no idea how sexy you are, do you?”

She shakes her head a little, her eyes darting from mine. “I read that it takes six months or more for most women to return to their pre-pregnancy weight.”

My brows dip together as I stare at her. “Look at me.”

Her eyes move back to mine. “I still have nine pounds to go.”

“You’re not listening to me,” I scold softly.

She tilts her head a little in confusion.

“I need you to hear me,” I say, my voice firm. “You’re right. Your body isn’t how it used to be.” Her face falls a little at my admission until I continue. “ This body grew our children. It nourished them. It gave them life. I fall more in love with you exactly the way you are every single day, and you better not for a second doubt that.” I get down onto my knees and kiss her stomach, and then I move up to kiss her breasts, thumbing one nipple while I suck another into my mouth. “God, I love the way you feel,” I murmur, and then I sink back down to my knees and shove my face right between her legs, inhaling deeply. “And the way you smell.” My tongue moves to her clit, where I suck for a beat as her legs start to tremble. “And the way you taste.” I stand and look down into her eyes. “I love every single thing about you, Tessa Higgins.”

“God, I love you,” she says, and I lower my lips to hers so she can taste her tang in my mouth. I feel her heart pounding against mine, but there are clothes separating us—my shirt and tie, my pants. Underwear.

I devour her with my kiss, but it slows as she pulls back. She smiles up at me sweetly even though she’s got me panting, and then she slowly unbuttons my shirt. One by one, she slides the button through the hole. Down, down, down with the sort of aching slowness that only builds the anticipation between us.

Once it’s fully open, she pulls the fabric open and slides it down my arms until it lands on the floor behind me. Her hands immediately find purchase on my chest. She slides her palms across my skin and down to my abdomen, her fingertips tracing the ridges of the muscles there—more pronounced than they used to be after the weeks of heavy workouts after she went back to Iowa and I stayed in Vegas.

She tugs at the waistband of my pants then snags her bottom lip between her teeth as she unbuckles my belt. My cock is painfully hard, and my entire body aches for her. I’ve always wanted her. Sex has always been amazing with her. We’ve always had an intense emotional connection.

But tonight, this is something else entirely. It has more meaning. More feeling. More everything. It’s the first night of forever.

She finally slides the zipper down and pulls my cock out. It’s hard and heavy in her hands, and she slides her other hand down further to cup my balls.

I groan my satisfaction, and she handles them gently. Her hands are perfect on me as she tugs at my cock the way she knows I like it, but tonight, the primal urge to be inside her intoxicates me. I halt her progress by backing up, and then I grab her up into my arms. She reacts with a squeal, and I toss her onto the bed. I pull my pants and boxers off, leaving them in a pile on the floor, and I stalk toward her.

I rip her panties down her legs in one swoop, and then I dive back into her pussy face-first. I lick my way through her slick folds, the taste of her only serving to make every bone in my body ache to be inside her.

It’s too much and not enough at the same time.

She grips onto the bedding as I stop to suck on her swollen clit, her hips jutting up to meet my mouth with every lash of my tongue against her.

I finally stop but only because the ache is unbearable. I move up the bed to hover over her, and then I line my cock up with her pussy and thrust my way home.

She lets go of her grip on the sheets only to clutch onto me. Her nails dig into my back as I pump into her, my lips finding hers and not letting go. She lets out a soft cry of pleasure when I slow down, my only goal to make this version of paradise last a little longer.

“Oh God, Tristan,” she moans, and then her pussy clenches over me. “I’m coming,” she says over and over as her pussy contracts and her entire body shudders with her release. Her soft moans paired with the way her body’s moving beneath mine send me into my own orgasm. I pull out as the masculine need to mark her as mine fills me, and I grab my cock in my hand, jerking it until I spill all over her stomach. When my swollen dick starts to calm, I gently roll the head of it through the come I left behind.

There’s something insanely hot about seeing my come all over her. She belongs to me. She always did, but today we made that commitment, and now forever can begin.