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Ethan had given me that

"Tell me, baby," he exhaled in a harsh whisper, but I could hear the vulnerability that accompanied the boldness Ethan wasn’t without his own insecurities, he was just a mortal like the rest of us

"Always yours!" I truly o inside me

When I opened my eyes sometime later, I realized I ed us halfway on our sides, but ere still joined together He liked to stay buried inside me for a while afterward I didn’thim happy

I just wish he’d tell me more about his dark place He was afraid to share and while it bothered me, I mostly understood his fear I often wondered if his reasons for needing to touchsex, and afterward too, had so to do with his time as a prisoner They tortured hi how he’d been that night when his dreaers over his shoulder and back I is of his tattoo and the words below them And I felt the scars too Ethan flicked his eyes open and pegged s reminded me of my mum," he said after a moment or two of silence, "and they covered overhis lips with a soft touch I cupped his jaw and decided to take the plunge I didn’t want to scare Ethan away froured I had to try again at soed and whispered, "I think I died a little tonight"

SoHe wasn’t up for anyinto his past I could tell "What do you mean you died a little?"

"When I couldn’t find you after that e came in on your er--just the lightest touch, and I felt a shiver roll throughallowed, mister That would be a real hterWhen Ethan was in a serious fralad you feel better," he paused and thrust his hips with a renewed erection, sinking in deep, "because I needed this with you, badly"

"I’ainst his lips as he draped e of another round of pleasure Once was rarely enough for him

Ethan made me feel desirable He made me feel beautiful and sexy, from the words that came out of his mouth to the touch of his body in mine when he ainst him like I was precious

Soone down in ht for me I was important to another person To Ethan I was The power in that knowledge was life-changing

Ethan’s particular brand of attention was intense and a lot to accept at first, but it worked for me Ethan worked for me He could show me how much he wanted me, and for the first time I had some hope that we could really o slow" part hadn’t happened at all like we’d agreed e first one slowly, I very much doubt I’d be naked in bed with hi, which happened to be owned by his sister, and being fked to the brink of another s as they come

It took a bit forsex, but I le out of his hold to head for the bathroom so I could clean up and prepare for sleep I loved how he touched me all the time I needed it, plain and simple, and Ethan knew that It was just another way in which ere elass of water and took the pill Dr Roswell had prescribed for ht terrors I had a routine Birth control and vitaht, once I was ready to actually sleep I sant bathrooha that bed and sleep were never synonyreat deal of ti

I didn’t expect to find him ahen I ca my every movement as I settled back into bed He reached forhe did often ere close like this

"How co drive," I paused for e--"

"I love you and I never want to let you go," he interrupted

"So don’t" I looked into his blue eyes, which seared ht

"I never will" He said it with some hardness and I felt that he reallyanywhere" I leaned in to kiss his lips, the rasp of his beard stubble well familiar to me now He kissed me back, but I could tell he had e in hias is I--I need so more permanent with us I need you with ether every dayand night"

I felthold Just when I got comfortable with one aspect of us, Ethan pushed for ether every day now," I told him

He furrowed his brow and narrowed his eyes a fraction "It’s not enough, Brynne Not after what happened tonight and that fked-upon your et to the botto more formal that tells the world you are off liht have on you"

I sed hard, feeling his thuine where he was going with this "What do you ?" Man, my voice was thready, and my heart felt like it would leap out of my chest the next moment