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“I wouldn’t miss it. Can we graduate to phone sex? All that sexting is hard to coordinate.” She lifted to whisper in his ear, “And I like how you sound when you come.”
“Sophie.” He fisted her hair in his hand and kissed her, long and deep and fierce. Kissed her like he was dying, because in a way he was.
The knowledge that this could be the last time lay unspoken and heavy between them.
When he pulled away, tears wet her cheeks, and he brushed them away, hating to see her sad. “Don’t cry.”
“I’m trying. I just—”
He kissed her again, cutting off the words. Not wanting to hear them. They both knew when she returned, that would probably be it.
She wasn’t going to ask him to come with her. But he understood now, in a way he hadn’t that night back in Chicago, that it wasn’t because she didn’t love him but because she did. She couldn’t ask him to make the sacrifice.
And he wouldn’t be able to lie. It would be a sacrifice.
He couldn’t imagine a life in Chicago, and the only reason he’d go was because of her. He’d do it, but she knew him too well.
On Wednesday, he’d look at her and tell her he’d go with her, and she’d say no.
He’d insist. She’d refuse.
Nobody had ever made the sacrifice for her before, and she wasn’t going to start with him. Because ironically, she loved him too much to ask him to make it.
He’d insist, but he had no idea how she’d respond. He’d have to see what happened when she returned.
“I know.” Their lips met again. Mouths fused and melded as tongues twined. And when he could stand it no more, he released her. “I love you.”
“I love you too.” She clutched at him, wringing the very life out of him. “Please know how much.”
He rubbed her back. “I do.”
He wanted to tell her to come back to him but didn’t. Instead, he kissed her one last time and let her go. He stood on his porch and watched her get into her girly Porsche. Top down she backed out of the driveway. Once in the street, she stopped and looked at him.
Her hair was back in a ponytail, her oversized Chanel sunglasses that screamed “city” in place. She looked exactly how she’d looked the first time he’d seen her. Full of sass and sunshine and hot summer breezes.
She waved.
He waved back.
And then she was gone.
