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“I don’t want to be alone”

Her words stoppedto that simple statement I knew it, but needed to choose which path to take “You don’t have to be You just have to stop pushingto take what could be the erous route

My reply was h, ready to head downstairs, but Calida got off the bed, co to stand in front of me

“I’ better, but…I’m a mess”

She wrapped her arms aroundThe shorts dropped from my hands, and I closed my arms around her I held her, while her tears ran down my naked torso

“I…I…I’ve been so hurt…and you…you…I…I just don’t know You…you keep saying you love me, bu…but I don’t know I…I’m scared”

The anguish in her words was like a knife in hthere was a way I could absorb her pain To free her from all of it I couldn’t I’d been a fool to belie

ve I had enough love for the both of us to heal her broken heart That if I’d loved her enough, she’d see she wasn’t the shell of a woht she was

She looked up at me I wiped the tears from her cheeks only to have new ones take their place “I do love you, Calida Without a doubt”

She closed her eyes, fresh tears spilled free I watched the rise and fall of her chest as she took deep audible breaths Her aro, I released my hold on her

She opened her eyes and looked at me Her hand ca up on her tiptoes, she wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me I was shocked by her actions, but my body quickly responded to hers I put ue slipped into the warm comfort of her mouth

Her hands closed around ue wrestled with rew hard, restricted painfully by the jeans I wore Cupping her ass, I rubbed her body againsther close to me like this drove me crazy and I feared I’d come in my pants at any minute

Holy Shit!

I pulled away, disentangled her arms from around ?

Her eyes ide, and she brought her hand to her lips