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"Everything alright?" I asked hi here?

"Moaze travelled heatedly downwhat he’d said last time about Christy, I asked, "Did she really send you or did you tell her you would pick me up?"

He shot me a weak, crooked s at et my name? Aside from the rare moments he’d let me in – and uarded around me There’d been a thick, twenty foot tall stone wall in place between us and an electric fence on the other side – the latter to ured" I setbox in the bedroom and tucked my hands into my pockets

"What are in the boxes?"

"Some of Mom’s personal treasures and photo albums when I was really small"

His eyebrows rose "That must have been nice Did you want to store the boxes at Moht I’ll have to hire a car out tomorrow and I’ll take the to tohter as he leaned his upper body into the roooing to let you go?"

I gulped and my stomach twisted nervously "What do you mean ‘let’?"

His amusement faded and his face darkened He dropped his arms and took a step over the threshold and into the bedroom He was hardly six feet away

"I don’t want you to just be content," he said in a near whisper Softness crept into his face, lighting his eyes and bringing back a rush of heated e into the Jaxon I’d known and loved "I want you to be happy"

I licked, and I’ I’d fill et all about you It’s " He took another step forward, keeping his gaze pinned on me "I’ve been nuain, I wouldn’t feel the sa down at the box, he took another step forward, hardly three feet fro the features like a fine-toothed coot old There’s only so much shit you can spend it on When you have it in enormous quantities, you’re immune to it – immune to the thrill of a purchase And wo for you because of this superficial ie they’ve wired into their heads I don’t even ree and the thrill of a rich guy and what his pocket can offer the, it’s less, all of it

"Five years and I nu tainted, lonely existence Pretending I didn’t want you still, pretending you fuckedbut a nasty, horrible bitch to soothe the ache – as if cursing you out was a bal There’s no salve to the heart when it coinably, unbelievably, inconceivably unforgettable"

I watched him take a few deep breaths as his face contorted into that of sadness "You’re the best thing that ever happened to me You’re it for me You always have been, and I refuse to let you walk out of ain I need you tooin love with you it kills me" His voice broke and he looked away, the pain in his face scorching , but not tears of sadness or guilt Tears of fucking joy streaked down my face as the fear inside ofback into the ocean I’d been so terrified he hated me, terrified that there was no more love between us

It was ht in front of hi both hands on either side of his face, I leaned into hi and looked up into those impossibly beautiful blue eyes of his

"I never stopped loving you," I breathed out, tasting the salt of ood enough for you–"

He cutkind that was deep, intense, filled with longing and, most of all, love I knew these lips so well, could practically taste the e out of hi both ar hiues, reacquainting and relearning

There was no anger in hiainst entleness Such a vast blanket of warbloomed inside, and it wasn’t passion or lust, it was a thirst for love

I could feel the hard ridge in his pants as he pressed ainst hihs and picked s around his hips, and bunched his light sweater with ainst my back and lost myself in the feel of hiainst his lips "I’roaned in return and slipped his hot hand under ers over my abdomen and slowly up to my breasts He broke away fro near the avehot breaths against my skin

"Tell ht you did it to piss me off"

He chuckled softly "That too" He resu marks in its aftermath