Delight swelled in his chest, the sensation so monumental he wasn’t certain his physique might include it. Reaching up, he eliminated the leather-based collar, dropping it onto the mattress between them. Then he picked up the brand new collar, letting the fragile gold chains circulation over her hand like water as he lifted them.

His personal arms shook barely as he wrapped the collar round her neck and clasped it in place.

The valuable metallic glinted within the mild from the nightlight when she swallowed.

So stunning.

So fucking excellent.

Mason brushed his lips throughout the golden ring on the heart of her throat.

His.

Epilogue

Addison

“Guys, should you don’t come out proper now, we’re doing this with out you,” Addison stated, giving the Doms across the eating room desk a scolding look.

Rafe arched his eyebrows at Mason. “You going to let her speak to you want that?” he stated in his low, gruff voice. When she first met him, these phrases would’ve half-terrified her. Rafe appeared proper on the verge of turning her over his knee at the most effective of instances. After practically 5 months on the Manor, although, she knew she didn’t want to fret. He was amused, not offended.

Moreover, all of them knew what the gold chains encircling her neck meant. Mason would fucking kill anybody who touched what was his—a truth he by no means let anybody on the Manor neglect.

Mason solely shrugged in response, a smile lurking in his lapis lazuli eyes.

“In the event you could be variety sufficient to attend 5 extra minutes,” Jonathan drawled from his place on the head of the desk. “We’re virtually completed with our assembly.”

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” she stated, flipping her hair over her shoulder as she turned away. The door swung closed behind her as she hurried again throughout the kitchen, heading straight out onto the patio. The spring flowers had been in full bloom, blanketing the backyard in a lot coloration it virtually harm to have a look at it. She couldn’t consider a extra excellent place for this to occur.

Addison headed straight for the small crowd gathered on the fringe of the patio nearest to the bushes. Phoebe from the wildlife rehabilitation heart stood in the midst of the group with a plastic animal crate at her toes.

Zach, Olivia, and Nell all gave her expectant appears as quickly as she moved inside earshot. Even Gabriel and Kendra, who had are available on their break day for the event, watched her with curiosity.

“Properly?” Olivia requested.

“Jonathan advised me to attend 5 extra minutes.” Her tone made it abundantly clear how she felt about that.

“Screw Jonathan,” Zach stated, rolling his eyes. “Did you inform him Alexander’s freedom is far more necessary than his silly Saturday assembly?”

She shrugged. “I made it clear we’re not ready.” Even when she was prepared to maintain Alexander cooped up any longer than vital—spoiler alert: she wasn’t—she and Mason had a flight to catch. They’d already delayed their journey by twenty-four hours after Phoebe known as, and he or she had no intention of pushing it again once more. Time was a luxurious she didn’t have right now. “In the event that they wish to miss it, that’s their drawback.”

No sooner had been the phrases out of her mouth than the kitchen door crashed open behind her. All 5 of the Manor’s Doms filed out into the backyard, Mason within the lead.

Addison grinned so huge, her face harm. She knew he wouldn’t let her down.

A hell of a whole lot of issues had modified prior to now two and a half months. Addison’s plans to maneuver again to New York lengthy forgotten, she’d accepted a everlasting place on the Manor. She liked her kitchen, her coworkers, and the company.

She particularly liked studying what folks wrote about her meals on the Manor’s subreddit. Her cranberry-ginger cinnamon rolls had been virtually as well-known as Camden’s dimple at this level.

Mason took a web page out of Aiden’s e book, slicing again his hours and doing every thing he might to go dwelling with Addison every evening. Issues didn’t all the time work out the best way they needed, after all. Even after they did spend the evening collectively, they usually spent hours side-by-side on their laptops, researching and answering emails. The charity basis they had been within the technique of beginning—its sole mission to assist foster children across the nation—took extra work than she ever might’ve guessed.

So long as they saved going through every bump within the street collectively, the entire thing appeared potential. Particularly since Olivia and Nell had been all the time there to assist when issues bought complicated or exhausting. If anybody understood what she was going by way of proper now, it was these two.

With the slew of adjustments overtaking Addison and Mason’s lives, just one factor remained fixed: their love grew each single day. So long as that stayed true, the remaining would work itself out in time.

As quickly because the Doms joined the group, Mason moved up behind Addison, wrapping his arms round her. “Sorry we’re late, toddler,” he murmured in her ear.

She craned her neck, giving him a mischievous smile. “I believe you owe me an additional hour of driving classes for this.”

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