Page 53 of Waggs

Slamming the door behind him, Willow grabbed the blanket from the back of the couch and pulled it around her shoulders, fighting the shivers that had nothing to do with being cold. Spinning she faced him, ready to give him hell and then beg him to forgive her, all shame gone now as she fought for her life.

Pointing a finger at him, she saw shock cross his handsome face. “You were wrong.” Willow began to pace the small living room. “Yes, I should have told you, but I never kept AJ from you. That was all on you. You were the one who ran, not me. Had you given me the chance or the slightest indication that you wanted any kind of relationship with AJ, as either an uncle or a father, I’d have fought harder, but you left. When I was broken and grieving for a man I loved, you took the one thing from me that could have got me through—you. You took yourself away and then I was left grieving for two men I loved.”

Waggs stepped forward and lifted a hand to her but she was too angry, to upset to let him soothe her. “You left me, Aiden, when I needed you. I had my son with your mother by my side, not you or Aaron but your mother. When I needed your arms to hold me, you didn’t even know I was alive.”

“No, that’s not true. Not a day went by I didn’t think about you.” He gripped her upper arms firmly and she looked up in anguish, to see his eyes were full of regrets. “I’ve loved you from the minute I met you, Wills, and that never changed. I was wrong to leave, wrong to run. I should’ve been here by your side, how you needed me to be, and I’m so fucking sorry I wasn’t.”

A sob tore from her throat as hope bloomed in her chest. His hand lifted to her face, his thumb swiping the tears that fell. “I love you, Wills, so much and if you’ll let me, I’ll spend eternity making it up to you.”

“What are you saying?”

“I want us to be together, wherever that may be. I want us to be a family. To get married one day and give AJ brothers and sisters and live our lives together.”

Willow wanted desperately to fall into him and tell him she wanted that too, but she needed to know he forgave her first. “You forgive me for not telling you about AJ?”

He kissed her eyelids and she reached up to cover his hand with her own. “There’s nothing to forgive. We both could’ve done things differently, but the past doesn’t affect the future. I love you and that’s all that matters.”

“What about AJ? Do you want to find out if he’s your son?”

Willow saw a shadow of doubt cross his features. “I don’t know, but to me, it makes no difference. I love him as if he was my own, and in every way that matters, he is mine—ours.”

“Are you sure? Because as much as I love you, AJ is, and will always come first, no matter what.”

Aiden dipped his head, closing his eyes as his forehead rested on hers and he showed her his vulnerability. “It’s one of the things I love most about you. Your desire to protect those you love. I would never expect anything different. AJ will, and should, always come first for both of us.”

It was the words she needed to hear and as they penetrated her mind, she crashed into Aiden. Her arms wrapped around his neck as her lips found his. She initiated the kiss, showing him how she felt, taking control as emotion overcame her.

In seconds, the emotion turned to white hot passion and she found herself in the air as Aiden carried her to the bedroom they shared, his lips never leaving her own as he made love to her mouth with his tongue. Seducing her with every brush of his lips over hers and she felt drugged by it.

Dropping her on the bed, she watched with carnal hunger as he stripped away his clothes until he was gloriously naked in front of her, his hand palming his straining cock. Willow squeezed her legs together as an ache to feel him inside her blossomed.

“Look at me, Wills.”

Her eyes moved to his and she saw all the love and passion he felt for her with no filter, or hiding from the truth, just bare, naked emotion. Aiden stripped her slowly, kissing every mark on her skin from the man who would’ve taken her from him. He soothed, kissed, licked, and sucked until she was swimming in a pool of need and sensation.

“Please, Aiden, I need to feel you inside me.”

As he settled between her thighs, she wrapped her legs around him, feeling the head of his cock at her entrance and wanting more.

“You’re so beautiful.”

“I love you, Aiden Wagner.”

“I love you, Willow Yates.”

Then he was pushing into her and her body sang as he rocked into her again and again, his hands and mouth marking her as his, and pleasure became a wave she rode higher and higher until she knew she’d crash.

“Let go, baby.”

As she locked eyes with him, she did, and pleasure crashed over her until she could hardly see and then she felt him spill his seed inside her, and her climax peaked again as she let go because she knew Aiden would always be there to catch her.

Epilogue

The door opened and the light of his life walked through, a grinning AJ at her side. Waggs felt the ever-present grin slide over his face, the ache in his cheeks from smiling so often a constant reminder of how empty his life had been before Willow and AJ changed it forever.

“Hey, how was training?” He stood and kissed Willow’s upturned lips as he brought an arm around her waist, needing her close as he ruffled AJ’s hair.

“Good, we practised penalties and I was in goal.”