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He looked back atI really don’t I didn’t even realize I’d been doing it until I overheard you talking to Jo Then I was terrified of losing you in a different way”

“So you booked this vacation?”

He nodded “I can’t lose you, babe You’d take my soul with you”

I burst into harsh sobs and immediately found ht, it was almost painful, but I didn’t care All I cared about was that he was finally talking to me, and the distance between us was because he lovedmuch!

I liftedup to hismy tears on his lips

When I finally pulled back, I stared into his beloved face and whispered, “You can’t live your life in fear of so to me, Nate”

“I know that” His fingers bit into ”

“Why didn’t you just tellyou needed to get off to the idea I was someone else entirely while we have fantasy sex?”

He grinned at er

“Nate” I slapped my hand down on his shoulder

Finally, he stopped sive me an answer “I didn’t want you to think ere back to where we once were Like hoas about Alana”

“I don’t think that,” I promised him “It’s not the same At all But”

“But?” He looked wary

“Maybe it would be a good idea for you to talk to someone”

“Do you mean a therapist?”

“Maybe, yeah”

Nate shook his head “I know youto a therapist”

“But s”

“I just did I told my wife”

That was true I leaned in to kiss him It was meant to be soft, quick, and sweet but Nate held , and needy When I finally came up for air, I said breathlessly, “Fine But you have to pro toyou, baby, I want to knoant to know so I can screw those fears right out of you and reht now”

His fingers bit into ain as his eyes flared “Have I told you lately how perfect you are?”

I smiled “Don’t tell me Show me”

My husband accepted that challenge, grabbingus back to the inn so he could show ht I was

Chapter Ten

Around four o’ clock in theI slipped out of our bed at the inn to use the bathrooht I tried to be as quiet as possible because we’d only drifted to sleep a few hours ago When we’d gotten back to our roo love to me It had been beautiful

And yet as I stepped out of the bathrooht ofbed He had pushed off the sheets, so they were only pulled up to halfway across his ass I wanted to pull the sheets down farther and bite him

Hoas possible that I had the energy to want sex with hiain, I didn’t know I hadn’t felt this insatiable toward hio the thought of waking Nate up to itated I was interrupting his sleep

Noasn’t worried

I’d decided froet a daily re beautiful and that he needed to enjoy it rather than fear losing it

On that note, I pulled off s and pressed my lips to one cheek of his ass while I squeezed the other cheek

He grunted in his sleep

So I licked him from the bottom of his spine up his back

He groaned “Liv?”