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He balanced ainst the shoall and pushed more fully into me A startled sound burst out of h”

“Easy,” he murht have felt good It was hard to tell I needed hiure out where this new sensation was takingto move now?”

“If you’re okay now”

“I’ my face all the while The slide out lit ot my immediate attention Whoa Good or bad, I still couldn’t quite tell I needed ainstMy blood felt fever hot, surging throughit all The wet of his ue All of hi ht have otherwise planned to do with the rest of his life

My back buether He broke the kiss with a wary look, but he never stopped ot better and better We needed to do this all the ti else mattered when it was like this between us Every worry disappeared

It was so daood He was all that I needed

Then he hit upon soling and running riot My ht and he thrust in deep several times in rapid succession The world blacked out or I closed my eyes The pressure insidepieces It went on and on Mysparkled If it felt anything like that for David, I don’t kno he stayed on his feet But he did He stood strong and whole with o

Eventually, about a decade later, he did set me down His hands hovered by my waist, just in case Once my limbs proved trustworthy, he turned entle hand, he cleaned et what he was up to at first and tried to back away Touching anything there right then didn’t seen a s me back into the spray of water “Trustout of instinct He took nothing but care The whole world see too close and yet buffered at the saasm of my life had undone me

Next he reached over and turned off the water, stepped out and grabbed tels One he tied around his waist, the other he patted ht?” I asked as he dried offto ood sign My world had been torn apart and re If he said it was only okay Iincredible,” he corrected, pulling off his towel and throwing it onto the bathroorin quivered I saw it in the ether, always is”

Hand in hand alked back into the bedroo nad in front of him didn’t feel weird for once There was no hesitation He discarded his towel and we cli naturally toward the middle and each other We both lay on our sides, face to face I could slip into a coma, I was so worn out Such a pity to have to close ht there in front of me My husband

“You swore at me,” he said, eyes ah, his thu back and forth over my hip bone “Gonna pretend you don’t reh I hadn’t meant to say it, neither the cuss word nor the declaration of love But I had Big girl panties time “I said I was in love with you”

“M me an out but I couldn’t take it I wouldn’t take it, noI wasn’t about to diminish the moment like that