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It was too much.
And somehow not nearly enough.
When I thought I couldn’t take anything else from him, Blake untangled me from his chest and laid me back against the pillows. His tongue trailed down my damp skin between my breasts, licking and sucking until his mouth closed around one of my nipples, and my world exploded into thousands of stars.
My body shuddered with pleasure, and Blake found his own release, collapsing on top of me and pressing a gentle kiss to my lips.
“Thank you.”
It was no more than a whisper against my skin, but I heard it.
Although, through my ragged breaths and the rush of euphoria flowing through me, I couldn’t comprehend what Blake possibly had to thank me for.
Didn’t he realize he had just given me everything?
We lay there in silence, our uneven breaths the only sounds around us.
After a couple of minutes, Blake pressed another kiss to my lips and rolled off me. In the sliver of moonlight illuminating the room, I could just make out the outline of his taut muscles as he walked into the small bathroom adjoining my room and disposed of the condom. He didn’t say a word as he came back to the bed or as he climbed in beside me, tucking me into the curve of his arm.
As our breathing evened out, so did the mood. The weight of what had just happened started to crush me where I lay.
I had given myself to Blake—to a man who was promised to another.
What in the hell was I thinking?
But the truth was, I wasn’t.
That’s what it all came down to.
For once in my life, I didn’t think; I just did.
Tired of letting my past, my fears, define me, I hadn’t been thinking when I leaned into Blake and kissed him or when he’d slowly undressed me before kissing every inch of my bare skin.
I hadn’t been thinking at all.
I was too blinded by him.
By us.
By those three little words.
I love you.
Now, everything was more confusing than ever. Blake said he loved me; he’d shown me he meant it. But what happened now?
He was engaged.
Engaged!
Just thinking the word made a pang of guilt go through me.
“Stop,” Blake said, brushing lazy circles along the soft curves of my waist.
“Stop what?” I replied, and he pressed another kiss to my shoulder.
It was as if he couldn’t help himself, and the thought made me smile.
“Overthinking things,” he added. “Just let us have this moment. We deserve that, don’t we?”
