down.
He stared at me with a stupid grin on his face. “Honey, I love to see a woman who’s not afraid to eat.”
“Well then, you’ll be thrilled with me because as I’ve just demonstrated, I’m a pig with absolutely no table manners and I’m unashamedly proud of my appetite.”
“Kiss me.”
I did as he asked and suddenly I was on his lap, my hands tangled in his hair and his hands under my sweater. Then he was standing up and carrying me down below and we found ourselves in one of the staterooms, naked, in bed, making mad, crazy love.
I was on top, straddling him and he suddenly sat up and we were face to face. He scooted to the edge of the bed so he could drop his legs over the side.
“I need to be close to your face. I want to touch your mouth, your lips, your neck. God Alexia, you drive me crazy with need for you.”
“Oh Pearce, I can’t begin to tell you how I feel. I don’t think there are words for it.”
He moved within me and I moaned.
“The sounds you make when I’m inside of you just drive me insane.”
He groaned and talk about sounds. If he wasn’t the sexiest man alive, there wasn’t one.
My arms were around his neck and I bent my head to his shoulder.
“No, I have to see your face. I need to see you Alexia. Don’t hide your face from me.”
I lifted my head and held his face in my hands. “I’m not hiding from you. I would never hide from you. I love you Pearce.”
Shitfuckdamnhell! I said the L word.
I hadn’t meant to say that. It just slipped out.
My eyes grew wide and probably looked like they were going to pop right out of my head. I froze.
“Say it again,” he said hoarsely as his gaze penetrated mine.
“What?” I evaded him.
“Don’t you dare run from me now Alexia. Say it again!” he commanded.
All the while he was still moving inside of me and I was ready to come. I couldn’t believe I had said that and he was demanding I say it again.
“Fuck it! I love you Pearce!”
“I love you too. That’s why I want you to marry me.”
As soon as the words left his mouth I climaxed, and then he followed me. We didn’t move or say anything for a while. We just sat there, locked in each other’s arms, holding on tightly.
“I’m not ever going anywhere Alexia. I won’t ever leave. I won’t ever stray. I’ll always be yours, faithful to the very end.”
Shit. He was too fucking good to be true.
I felt my face becoming slick with my tears, as they dripped down my cheeks.
He took my face in his hands and said, “I mean it Alexia. I’ll be yours forever. So you see, it doesn’t matter if you say yes or no...if we take it slow or fast. You have me whether you want me or not.” He wiped my tears with the pads of his thumbs. “Don’t cry beautiful. It hurts my heart when you do.”
“Oh Pearce. I’m so fucking scared. I’ve never gotten anything right in my life. I want to marry you but I’m so afraid I’ll fuck it up, just like I’ve fucked up everything else. The last thing I ever want to do is to mess things up with you.”
“Why do you think you’ll fuck it up?”
“I don’t know. I just have this knack for doing that.”
“No you don’t. You just think you do. But tell you what. Let’s take it a day at a time. When you’re ready, you say the word. But like I said, I’m not going anywhere. Okay?”
“Yeah, okay.” I sniffed.
“You know something?”
“What?”
“You have the greatest nipples.” And he grinned that super sexy smile of his and I laughed and just shook my head.
He lifted me off of him and stood me up between his legs. Then he pulled me closer and kissed my stomach. He moved his mouth over to the two scars from the stab wounds and kissed those next.
He lifted his head and said, “I never told you this, but that night the call came in and I got to the O.R., when I saw it was you, I flipped out. I went into the locker room and punched in a wall and then followed it with a
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