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Silence

"Is everything okay?" I asked

"Just fking dandy," he answered, his voice tight

Sheesh I didn’t knohat started his te wrong "Ben, please talk tothe door open slowly, I found hi the marble countertop, his head dropped forward

My stomach twisted nervously My mind juuilt over so else he needed to confess about him and Fiona? Heaven help hteen hours from home

I wanted to ease his anxieties, to tell hih it, but I couldn’t for the bracelet on my wrist Finally he turned

"I can’t do this"

My stoood idea to eat scalloptoover me in my bare feet "I can’t share this room with you, sleep in the same bed, and be expected not to touch you I love you, Emmy You’re mine All of you Your heart, mind, and body And I’m yours"

"W-what are you saying?" I sta a heavy sigh filled with pent-up frustration

"You don’t want hed, a rich throaty chuckle that tuest case of blue balls since we got back together I’ Guinness Book of World Records I’ll have to see a doctor to e in case you want kids so children, and I suddenly found his little tantrue in his pants and he winced as he adjusted himself

My eyes followed histook my breath away Had he escaped to the bathroom to deal with that on his own? Was that what this was about?

Everything struck me at once Ben wanted me He loved me He needed this--to be intie And I was denying hihtly rubbed his h the thin material of his dress pants His eyes flicked to h his chest