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For tonight, I want everything. I want to give him everything.
And tomorrow… Well, tomorrow can wait until tomorrow.
Axel kisses me again, softly. Slowly.
Like on some level, he knows all the things I’m not telling him.
He teases me, and when I start to shift with need, he lines up, notching himself at my opening.
Emotion wells within me as I trace his face, his neck and shoulders still rigid with restraint. Tears slip from the corners of my eyes, and he lowers his head to kiss them away.
“Please,” I whisper, needing this. Needing him.
And when he pushes inside me, groaning my name, I have it. Everything that matters.
Or at least as close to everything as two people in our positions can get.
Chapter 16
Axel
Nora’s not in my bed.
It’s the first thing I think when I wake up and feel the cool sheets beside me.
The second is a string of expletives that slam into my consciousness with the disturbing force to knock me to my back as I press the heels of my hands to my eyes.
What the fuck was I thinking?
Except I know exactly what I was thinking.
Thank God she came.
Another night without her was going to kill me.
Nothing had ever felt as right as her stepping into my arms.
And right now, nothing has ever felt as wrong as her not being here.
I swing my legs over the edge of the bed and stand, pulling on the PJ bottoms I was wearing when she came to my door… and didn’t knock.
Last night, I sat up as soon as I heard the creak and give of the floor. I was out of my bed within her first retreating step. I couldn’t let her go.
I didn’t have to last night, but today, I will. Probably. Maybe.
Fuck.
After a quick brush of my teeth, I head out into the quiet apartment. Otto is still sleeping in ignorant baby bliss, totally unaware of what happened. That I might have done something to cost him the most constant presence in his life. Because that’s what Nora is. More than me,she’sthe one who’s here for him.
And he’s supposed to get another two months with her. Time that’s precious to him. Fuck, time that’s precious to me. Except it’s not just about Otto. I don’t want to lose her.
Her friendship means something to me. More than I could have imagined it ever would.
Anxious, I look for her.
Nora’s not in her room, but I know she’s here. For now. She wouldn’t leave without talking to me.
I swallow hard.
