A/N: Sex scene ahead, remember always to wrap it before you tap it! Enjoy the finale! Much love x

Epilogue

One Year Later…

The sky was darkening, deep maroons and shades of amber as the sun lowered and the moon rose. The atmosphere was quiet save for the sound of soft cascading winds and the chirps of crickets. There was a distant sound of gentle and deep music playing in the living room of the house, he could do without all the people around him, but it was a special time.

A celebration, a house warming party.

He was sat comfortably on one of two white wooden deck chairs, a cold beer in his hand and there he sat on the patio alone before the side door opened and closed not that far behind him. Her footsteps were light as she curled around the back of his chair and was now standing to his left where he sat. Her fingers traced the curves of his shoulders before playing with the lining of where his shirt sleeves ended. Her touch always made his hairs stand on end, no matter how little it was.

Her voice was like honey in his ears. "Are you okay?" With his free hand, he took a hold of her hand and brought it to his lips, placing a gentle kiss on the top of her hand.

Shadow tilted his head upwards and met her warm eyes. "Perfect."

He's very happy. He was more than content to spend the rest of his life in this very spot. More importantly, spending the rest of his life with her. Nothing more could be truly perfect.

He tugged at her hand and she took a seat on his lap, hooking her bare legs over the armrest. She was wearing a mid-thigh black sheer dress that held embroidered pink and red flowers covering her breasts. If he didn't know any better, he would have thought that she was trying to seduce him all night.

Kiera curled an arm around his shoulders, and softly teased the back of his neck with her fingers. "You know, they think we're engaged to be married." He commented about their friends gossiping in the kitchen.

With her other hand she played with the buttons on his navy-blue dress shirt. "I take it they overheard the little white lie you told the doctor at the hospital?"

"You could say that." He chuckled, bringing his hand to rub the length of her leg as they spoke.

She smirked and held a playful glint in her eyes. "Well, I don't see a ring on my finger."

"Yet."

Kiera laughed. "So, you have a plan?"

"I have a ring." Shadow countered, never leaving her eyes. He was well and truly enamoured by her.

She bit her bottom lip. "When?" That drove him crazy when she did that and she knew it.

"I knew the moment you were released from the hospital." Some part of him already knew.

Kiera was intrigued, and she asked with a raised eyebrow. "How are you going to ask me?"

He relaxed his shoulders and brought his right hand to her check, softly stroking her soft skin with the pad of his thumb. "At first, I wanted it to be at the first place we met but sadly that place is no more, then I thought of the place where I first kissed you which is the same place and sadly, in ashes. Now, I realise that it doesn't have to be a special place or significant moment of our relationship – it can be just the two of us. Anywhere and at any time. I want it to be just you and me at our happiest, but I didn't want to wait for the perfect moment anymore."

"That was beautiful."

He laughed. "I didn't think I needed the ring right now, it's in our bedroom."

Her brow furrowed. "Where?" Kiera thought she would have came across it at some point over the course of a year.

"It's in my gun holster that's hanging on the corner of the bathroom door."

She smiled as his hand trailed up her thigh. "Smart." Before his hand could go any further she got up from his lap.

He frowned. "Where do you think you are going?" As she straightened her dress, he scanned her, and his eyes lingered on her curves that seemed to lead to explicit places.

"To the bedroom." Kiera paced to the side door from the patio and his eyes followed her behind as he leaned forward out of his chair to watch her.

He waited for it. "Aren't you coming?" He told her if he ever said no to that, to shoot him. He left his can of beer, got up out of the deck chair and followed her through the house and up to their bedroom.

No one seemed to notice their absence before, now shouldn't be any different. As they travelled up the stairs, he was very content with being behind her with the view that he had. She was his goddess. His.

Kiera opened their bedroom door and strolled through, he closed and locked it behind them. He didn't want to be disturbed. She found the small red velvet box in his gun holster and tossed it at him.

He raised an eyebrow at her and she answered in a sultry tone that made his pants suddenly become tight. "Ask me."

Shadow walked a few steps over to her, they were only a few inches apart and he lowered himself down to one knew. Opening the velvet box, revealing a slim silver band and a diamond that held the same vibrance and fire that she did.

He met her eyes and they were dark as she looked into his. "Kiera, the love of my life, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?"

"Yes."

He removed the ring from the box and slid it onto her finger and tossing the box over his shoulder not caring where it landed. Shadow's head tilted downward to her feet and he removed her ankle boots before slowly rising up from the floor raking his gaze along her sinful body. He hadn't a clue how he got so lucky.

He kissed her quickly and everything else seemed to happen so fast. He hands went straight for the buttons of his dress shirt as his went behind her back and slid the zip down the curve of her spine. They parted from each other's lips and he took his shirt off and threw to the side. Kiera admired the perfect lines of his chest and abdominal muscles before sliding the dress straps down. The top of her dress slid down to the well of her waist and the reveal of her bare and full breasts were on show for their eyes to see.

Shadow pulled her by her waist, pushing her right up against his body and he shuddered at the feel of her breasts up against his chest as his mouth began its attack to her neck. His hands made quick work of pushing down the rest of the dress to the floor. Now, she was only standing there clad in lacey black panties. She was trying to destroy him, he knew it.

A soft moan escaped her lips and he just that sound so much. Shadow travelled his kisses, licks and marks on her neck down to the swell of her breasts, they were so beautiful, and he gets to make his mark on them. Now, and the rest of time. His hands cupped her breasts from underneath, he massaged the right as he teased the left nipple with his mouth. She was always so delicious but there was something else he wanted to taste first.

A few lower moans came from her mouth and that cemented the fact that he needed to get rid of his pants, they were unbearably tight. As much as it displeased him and her, he removed himself from her breasts. "On the bed." He didn't mean for it come out as a command, but he was grateful for the effect it had on his lovely wife-to-be.

Shadow kicked off his dress shoes, unbuckled his belt and removed his pants. His eyes caught the sight of Kiera waiting for him on her back on their bed. As much as he wanted to have her right there and then, he had to maintain some extent of his resolve. He got down on his knees at the end of bed and took a hold of both her ankles and pulled her to the end of bed.

With her legs over his shoulders, he felt her shudder with anticipation of what he was about to do to her. He used the outside of his knuckles to stroke the length of her covered lips and she moaned. God, he loved that sound. He quickly ripped the panties off of her hips.

She gasped and leaned up on her forearms. "You need to stop ripping them."

He didn't apologise. "They were in the way." Kiera threw her head back, not paying any care to her panties anymore as soon as Shadow buried his face in between her legs. She moaned his name as he used his tongue to lick the length of her pussy while his thumb found where she is most sensitive. She was just so delicious, he could spend hours eating her up until she told him to stop.

Her hips twitched a few times and he knew that she was getting closer to the edge. Her hands clenched and balled up the sheets as he overloaded her with inconceivable pleasure. His tongue then found its way into her entrance and one of her hands went to his head and forced his face even closer to her pussy so that he was almost being smothered if that were possible – it wouldn't be the worst place to die.

His thumb worked her clit and his tongue went to town on her, within the next few minutes her stomach tightened and then released as she peaked. She bit her lip to keep herself from howling out in pleasure. Shadow licked her clean while she was coming down from her high. He climbed up her body, kissing up her tummy and in between the valley of her breasts until he met her lips.

Shadow kissed her deeply, he loved kissing her and every single part of her. He would spend the whole day doing just that if he could. Kiera returned his kiss as she raised her legs to rest over his hips. She could feel him, hard and firm against her stomach but with the barrier of his boxers.

Kiera rocked her hips, grinding herself against his covered erection. He shuddered with her with a groan in his throat. He lowered his face down to her ear and whispered to her. "I love the way you taste on my tongue; do you want me? I want you. You're making it incredibly difficult for me to have any kind of control." She purred as he nipped at her neck, rubbing his clothed cock against her pussy.

She slid her hand down them and released his rock-hard erection from its confines. He pushed them all the way down, now he was fully naked with her. She moaned his name the way she knows drives him mad. "Fuck me, Shadow. I know you want to." He groaned into her neck as he pumped his cock a few times before meeting the head with the entrance to her pussy.

In one push, he was sheathed inside her. They were connected in the most intimate way possible. He was paused as he basked in the tight feeling of her walls adjusting to his size. He took a few deep breaths as he loved nothing more than to buck into her, but he wouldn't ever start unless she was more than ready for it. Kiera shuddered as he filled her in one push, it was like he was made just for her. He was more than perfect for her.

His voice was shaky. "Kiera?" Shadow checked if she was okay.

She nodded and planted kisses along his jaw line. "Make me yours, only yours." He planned to do just that. He pulled out of her until the head of cock was still inside her and then pushed right back into her and they moaned in harmony together. They did this slowly and a few more times at the same pace.

He grunted. "You're so tight, you're perfect. Gods, you feel so fucking good." Shadow started to buck into her faster, creating more of a rhythm and she loved it. Her hips met his with every thrust, and with each thrust his pubic bone met her clit. Kiera moaned his name over and over, that caused him to go faster and then harder. Her heels dug into the small of his back, feeling his hips snap hard against her.

Shadow's lips trailed light kissed across her jawline before going slowly down her neck, showering warm open-mouthed kissed across her collarbone and then down to her heaving breasts. He slowly licked around one nipple with his tongue before he closed his hot mouth around it, sucking and swirling his tongue over it wetly then moved to the other nipple, repeating the same motion which ripped a loud moan from her lips.

Kiera knew she was close when she felt his hard cock hitting something inside her that felt so incredibly good she could cry. "Don't stop, don't ever stop." She moaned loudly.

"Kiera." Shadow groaned and he increased the tempo, he was now fucking into her in earnest, his breath coming in hard and fast.

Then, it hit her. Something exploded from deep within her and she felt this huge wave of bliss expand from inside her and then outwardly to every other part of her body and she moaned so loudly she feared the others would hear her but then Shadow kissed her again and she felt his cock pulse hard inside her as he moaned loudly into her mouth.

Kiera's head then abruptly turned to the left to try and bury her moans into her bed as her eyes were now closed shut while she felt Shadow's head rest against her cheek while he kept snapping his hips against her, drawing out the intense feeling of bliss that had now overtaken their bodies while they were raked with the aftershocks of their climax.

After a few minutes, Shadow stilled over her and she could feel his heart beating wildly in his chest while hers was also thumping like crazily. He slowly brought his lips against her neck, kissing her hammering pulse before he rose from her, his softening cock slipping out of her. He whispered to her. "I love you, Kiera."

"I love you, too, Shadow."

The End