K A I

Epilogue

E M E R Y ' S P.O. V

"Open wide Mr Romano." I stand between Kai's spread legs, my newly polished nails gripping his jaw as he lets its hang open.

I observe his tonsils, his teeth...but my eyes can't help but drift to the tiny scar near the side of his eye.

Something sharp tugs at my waist.

"Ow!" I stare down at him. "Did you just pinch me?"

"You're supposed to be checking out my mouth Doctor Grayson, not anything else." Sighing, I drop my hand from his mouth and gesture to my outfit.

"If I'm a supposed to be a doctor, then why am I dressed like a nurse?" My body is clad in a tight fitting white nurse dress, complete with stockings, lace garters and a headboard to match.

I was even going to tie my hair into a bun, because that's what a nurse would typically wear, but Kai chose against it. My long red hair is part of the s*x appeal.

"The shop only had sexy nurse and fireman. They should really branch out into more professions."

I snort. "Who wants to f**k their dentist? Or their doctor?"

"Me." I glare at him. His dentist is unusually attractive. "I mean, I want to f**k you. My home doctor even though you're supposed to be my girlfriend."

We argue about this relentlessly. I'm a doctor, it's in my nature to want to care for my bed sick boyfriend but I also know he wants to care for me in the ways a boyfriend does. We're trapped int this strange liminal space and neither of us are willing to concede.

So I'm waving the white flag.

I agreed to do whatever wanted. He's just come off bed rest, he's allowed to partake in...physical activity and of course, requested that I f**k his brains out.

Well, he said the other way around but I'm definitely taking charge. He's still injured, despite it being a few months since the stabbing, Kai is finally moving into recovery.

The wound was hard to close at first, then his blood type had to be found but is extremely rare, and then it became infected. Twice.

I've come close to losing him so many times now that I'm terrified the slightest f**k up, the slightest pull and we're back in the hospital. Me, trying desperately not to cry myself into oblivion, whilst he fights for his life.

That night was the worst night of my life.

Not only was I detained by the police and forced to spend a night in a cell, unable to call anyone for help or even ask if Kai was alive, I was a suspect in attempted murder.

Jason almost died. His glucose levels were already low so the insulin shot just amplified it all. I could have killed him, but looking back, I would have done it again. Because if I didn't, Kai would have died.

We both would have...I did the right thing.

Kiara ended up bailing me out of the jail and somehow my association with the Romanos meant all charges were dropped.

I spent every painful night waiting in the hospital for Kai to recover, to wake up from his life saving surgery. His mom literally fell to her knees, thanking me for saving his life.

He saved mine though. Kai was my hero, and I was his. We were equals in this world, and I knew I could never stay back there, not after everything that had happened, so I left.

Pack up my things and moved into the Romano mansion.

My mom was a wreck. She cried over nearly losing me, but she also blamed Kai for it all. I knew my relationship wouldn't last with my mom's constant hatred for him, so I had to make a choice.

And I chose him.

Because she wouldn't understand what it's like to love something more than medicine. I've always been second to her career, and although I admire that for her, its peaceful knowing Kai will love me above all.

I've found the love I've always dreamt of, and here I've also got a family and a job that I weirdly love too.

I hope she'll one day understand but for now, I'm happy with my choices.

"I don't want to hurt you." My thumb skims the broken jagged scar that runs across his torso. Besides it, is the g*n wound that started it all.

"You won't Emery. If anything another week of no s*x will kill me."

"You managed all those weeks without me." The worst weeks my f*****g life.

"I know but the depression and pain of living without you blurred out the need for sex."

I laugh. "Seriously, that's the cringiest s**t I've ever heard." My lips drag along his wide smile, pecking the corner and skimming the centre.

"Why are you teasing me, Em?"

"Because it's fun." I murmur, dragging the annoying headband off. My curls tumble wildly in front of my face. I can feel Kai's fingers sink into them, pushing back behind my ears.

"Beautiful," I don't blush anymore. I'm so used to Kai's compliments that I'm believing them now. He did that for me, helped me to see my true self.

I lay my palm flat against his chest. "Lie back Mr Romano. It's time for your physical." His grin sharpens like a dagger, as his back hits the white mattress.

Our room is a basic guest, we didn't want to decorate, knowing it would make it harder to leave when Kai's better. But we have to, we need that independence, even though I don't know how I'll survive without Gabi's cooking.

He's already butt n***d, his c**k resting hard, almost reaching his bellybutton. I swipe my thick hair to one side, leaning down to take him in my mouth.

"Oh f**k," I smile, loving the power I hold over him right now.

We equally love s*x. I crave it like I never have before, and Kai is the drugs that fuels the addiction.

It's our way of showing love. He goes down on me most mornings, and I wake up with the biggest sated smile on my face, knowing my boyfriend loves me enough to make me c*m first.

Knowing that my orgasms matter to him.

"I need to f**k you." He groans, slamming a pillow over his face to drown out the sounds.

I tease him a little longer, running my tongue over the jagged veins, circling the tip in slow dragging movements that he almost cums in my mouth.

"Shit." He reaches forward to grab me, but I push him down.

"Excuse me Mr Romano, I'm still examining you."

"I would rather you f**k me...please,"

"Just be a good boy and wait." I straddle his chest, sensually running my hands over his carved body.

"If I'm good, do I get a reward."

"Yep, a nice big lollipop." He pulls a disgusted face.

He f*****g hates lollipops.

"Fine, how about..." I slowly pop the buttons on the costume open until my pale breasts are popping out. His face brightens like he's a kid on Christmas and just received a puppy from Santa.

I bunch the bottom of the dress up, revealing the lacy black thong underneath.

"Can I touch?" If I had better control, I would say. Make him wait, sweat it out a little, but I need his hands on me, inside me, making me feel things only Kai Romano could ever make me feel.

I nod, and he rises up a little, resting his back against the headboard. My anxiety flares when he winces, that I attempt to move off him but he holds my thighs down instead.

"Don't you dare move."

"Kai, I don't want to hurt you."

"You barely weigh anything, you won't." That doesn't ease me at all. He cups my cheek, and leans in to kiss me, soothing my worries until they melt away. "It was just an ache, and I want this more than anything. I want you."

His gaze drifts down to my breasts. With one hand, he squeezes it, using his thumb to roll the n****e tentatively. His mouth latches onto the other, intent to turn the pink, bright red.

I cling onto his broad shoulders, gently grinding against his thigh. The friction causes my clit to throb, needing his soft touch against the rough of his skin.

"Kai please,"

His laugh is deep and raspy. "Now who's begging."

I glare at him, as his hands shove my dress up further. It bunches around my torso, giving him access to my p***y. I haven't shaved in a while, so the hair is a mess.

Kai doesn't care, he sees past my insecurities. Past what other guys like to pick out. He only wants one thing right now, me, and nothing is going to stop him.

I try to stifle my moan as he pushes aside my thong to rub his fingers along my slit. His thumb settles on my bundle of nerves, rubbing me into submission.

My body fails my resolve and I collapse onto him, face buried into his neck whilst he fingers slip inside of me. They move fast, hurried, like I want, bringing me to c****x within a minute.

When he pulls them out, he raises his fingers to his lips and I watch him lovingly lick my essence, enjoying me the same way I enjoy him.

I'm curious too. I want to know what I taste like.

Kai smiles, pushing his finger into my mouth. I suck it clean, tasting his familiar breath mingled with my sweet scent.

"Now, you know why I'm addicted to your p***y so much."

I break out into a grin, wrapping my arms around his neck as I kiss him deeply. "You're such an idiot." I mumble, sinking into his thick c**k.

He fills me completely, touching the deepest parts of me no-one else ever will.

"Kai," I try to keep quiet, but he rocks into me with purpose, with stride, like we're on the last leg of a twenty mile marathon.

The thong grazes my clit delicately, mimicking the soft strokes of Kai's thumb.

His tongue drags itself across my chest, sucking on my n*****s, tweaking the other, until I'm drowning in ecstasy I can't escape from.

My head tilts back, giving into him.

Gripping my waist, he pounds upwards, his thrusts drawing my o****m closer and closer, until it finally breaks me.

"Fucking..." Kai clings onto me like I'm the only thing keeping him sane, our foreheads connected in the same way our souls are. "I love you Emery, f**k I love you so much."

He says it everyday. He never lets me forget it and each time I remember how good it feels to love him back, to be loved.

***

We shower afterwards, our afternoon delight extending further than I like since the whole family is coming over.

I have to help him shower since he still struggles with it. That's my excuse for climbing in n***d with him.

But for him going down on me and then f*****g me against the glass screen...yeah, I have no excuse.

"How did I get so lucky?" He drags me back into his chest, kissing my neck, as I admire the way his red shirt compliments my green dress.

"It was definitely the charm."

"The charm?"

"You have natural charm Kai. You're flirtatious, and confident and funny. If anything I'm the lucky..." He closes his hand over my mouth.

"Don't say that. Not when my girlfriend is outrageously sexy, so smart she can recite all the chemical elements, and has the biggest heart of anyone I know."

I rest my hand over his, beating strong. "You're is pretty big too."

"So we're both just perfect?" I laugh into his kiss, moaning as his tongue delves deep into my mouth.

Knock! Knock!

"Uncle Knox! Hurry up, we're all waiting."

"Coming down now Stasia." I hear his seven year old niece's footsteps as she barrels down the stairs.

"See we're late." I make a run for the door when he pulls me back.

"What's wrong?" He can see it. My insecurities, my doubt, my fear. Everything I can't escape.

I gulp hard, trying to find the right words. "I feel like I owe your family. They helped me out, they got me out of jail, they took me in and have been nothing but kind to me and generous even though my mother..."

"Dislikes us?"

I laugh quietly, brushing away a tear. "That's putting it nicely."

"Hey, hey," Kai pulls my hands down, rubbing my wrists to slow my racing heart. "My family love you, because I love you. They've seen how you've stuck by me, fought for me, saved me. That makes you a Romano, through and though."

"I'm a Romano?" We're not married. I'm just his girlfriend and they treat me like family already. It's a kindness I've never expected, but one I am thankful to receive.

"Always baby," He kisses me with the promise, cradles me like he's never letting go.

Fuck, this is it, isn't it?

This is the great love of my life, and I found him. Beneath the playboy exterior and the false laughter was a man I'm now inextricably connected too.

He wasn't the man of my dreams, he wasn't the perfect gentleman my mother envisioned, but he is flawed with beautiful soul, and I think in a lot of ways the reason I love Kai Romano so much is because of the person I am around him.

Brave, bold, confident.

I've always been a woman trapped in a man's world and now I rule that world, with Kai by my side.

There is no-one else. Only ever him, and that's a future I can wait to explore.

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A/N: Kai is over!!

But you know what that means...Kieron is coming and his story is a wild one so get ready!!

Also you'll see Kai and Emery in his book, but also Tessa too!!