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"Precisely" He laughed

"Why would you want that?"

"You don’t know?"

I shook my head

"You really have no idea what you are to me, Ara, do you?"

"What do you mean?"

"I…it would take a lifetime for me to show you how I feel There are no words I could find to say it in one breath, and I love you just doesn’t hold enough weight for the feeling I have inYou are et up, to so" He wiped his soft, long fingers down my cheek "Don’t you see? One day et to be with you anymore, and, eventually, that will killnot to cry "How can I live in a world without you?"

He shook his head, taking in my half naked body as he peeled the shirt completely away "Better than you can live in a world without David"

My whole heart tightened with sadness, because I kneas true, and I knew I could love Jason for one night without hating myself as much as if it was Arthur

"Wait" I pressed my hand to his abs as he lifted his shirt over his head "Will David really hate et over it" He ditched the shirt and fell on his hands, his body over h these past fewyou in once he’s dead" He looked down atme down the bed "He knows this will happen, he just believes it’ll be when he’s gone--cold in the ground But it doesn’t have to be that way"

I was surprised at that, really I kind of thought he’d jump at the chance to havereadhim, Ara If you really do love hiain if he dies" He reached down and unzipped his jeans "We’re doing this I’ that I at least left a part ofa few deep breaths while he fussed about betweenoff his clothes And when his bare skin fell sainst mine as he came back down on top of me, I felthim

"I’onna do so tirin

"What’s that?" I asked shyly, hty"

As ifupward by command of his lips; his mouth opened, warm breath over soft skin, and traced lovely wet little kisses from my collarbones to my ribs, then over the line of proer over my Mark, "looks incredibly sexy on you"

"I’m not sure I fit in a sentence with the word sexy," I scoffed

"Tell that tohis lips downoff to that patch of forbidden hair I gasped, a rush of heat ue entered e ofnot to lorious ability of this ers and exactly how soft his touch needed to be He slid one finger slowly out and back in again, kissing me each ti hinside

"What’s funny?" he asked

"That kind of tickles"

He laughed, running his wet hands up , his hair touching my chin, the faint smell ofup rab hi up to grab my hand as soon as the idea enteredme!"

His breath left his chest, tinted with a low tone of his beautiful deep voice, and I felt so close to hiainst ue touch his--felt his lips perfectly shape toaround to cradle h to drive the desire away And as I wrappedforce of his love so solidly, so clearly in that first thrust, that I let out a little cry, scrunching ers into the flesh between his shoulder blades

"You okay?" he asked, laughing into the curve of my neck

"I just…" David was never that passionate "I’ain, the ined it could feel this way--all of it; skin on skin, chest to chest, his thin body, so toned and so fir my breasts flat between us, while the sharp bone of his jaw rested against my head, his throat just above h to bite There was a kind of energy between us, surrounding us, that felt solid, like ere grounded by a force outside our awareness

I leaned down and kissed the Mark on his ar my eyes as I remembered the first time I saw it--how much I loved him even then

"Jase?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you"

He stopped for a second, and his soft hair tickled my nose as he drew back, then looked down at me "I love you, too, Ara For forever" He leaned in and kissedyou"

I rolledhi his chest and belly off o insideI’d ever seen

Hot liquid flooded rin as he reached down to press his thuainst a really sensitive spot