Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 0481

Gabriel.

I pull away from Harper and just stare at her. The woman that I'd fallen in love with just mere months of her being back into my life.

After Ashley, I thought my heart was dead for good. That it would never beat again for another woman. I was content with just using them for their bodies and then dumping them when I got bored before jumping to another one.

I never saw Harper coming. I wasn't prepared for her arrival and the changes she'd bring back to my life. She was a silent storm. One that consumed me and I let her, because there was just something about her that drew me in.

I look at her now, and I am filled with gratefulness. Thankful that she's decided to give me a chance. To give us a chance. She's everything I've ever wanted. I didn't see it back then because I was blinded by pain and betrayal, but I do see it now, and I'm grateful to whoever it's that granted us a second chance. I internally vow not to take it for granted and to be the man who deserves her.

With Harper's body against mine, I lead her through the room and right up to the bedroom where I've imagined being buried inside her a million times.

"Are you sure about this? Are you sure you want this?"

Her brow rises. "Are you really trying to argue with me about what I want?"

me the middle finger and walking away, you're here with me, where I want you." I smile at her and watch

widens as I

to make her mine again, completely and without room for doubt in her

gasp, right as I reach for her. My hand slides around the back of her neck,

sensitive from where my facial hair rubs against them. I don't stop, though. Her fingers grab my tie, loosening it and taking it off over my head, before reaching for the buttons on my shirt and pushing it off until my chest is completely bared

was going to stop me from taking her, from taking what was always mine.

your first?" Cóntent belong to

mine. I can see apprehension in her gaze, but she's not fearful. I don't want her to be sad or scared. I was with someone else, and it's not like she had to remain a virgin

and that I only belong to her. The same goes for me. "Don't ask questions you don't want answers to," she replies, probably hoping it will coax me into letting it go. My brow rises, and my hands shove under her dress and pull

crawl over her skin, and

her feet untangled while placing heated kisses against the smooth skin of her abdomen. Her hands tangle in my hair and a

feet. I walk us farther into the room and over to the bed. I set her down on the

dress pants and boxers off until we're both

then suck each one into my mouth. She gasps, and