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He kisses me again. He keeps his motion slow. He doesn’t care about a release. All he focuses on is me and the way we fit together. We’re closer than we’ve ever been, and there’s no doubt this is where we’re meant to be.
There’s no doubt this is right.
When Noah finally picks up his pace again, fucking me harder so he can finish, he pushes me to another orgasm. We finish together. I feel him jerking and pulsing inside me, and I curl around him as pleasure racks my body.
Sex with Noah has always been incredible. But it’s even more so now that it’s all out in the open between us. There is no deadline to our relationship. And there are no secrets.
And when we finally finish, and he pulls out to lie next to me, our panting is almost in unison. He pulls me against him, and we lie together, skin slicks with sweat, hearts beating fast.
He kisses me on the forehead.
When we finally tear ourselves away from each other, it’s to go to the bathroom, to lock up, and to get back in bed. Together.
He’ll stay the night. Tomorrow, I’ll talk to Ava. And soon, we’ll set up a meeting so that she can meet her father.
I don’t know what the future will hold. There are a lot of variables, and I’m so used to doing it on my own, it will take some time to get used to the changes. Getting used to sharing my life with someone again. But with Noah at my side, we can conquer everything. I don’t know what the future holds. But for the first time, I want to find out. I have hope. I want to look ahead, and I’m excited about what may come our way.
Focusing on the now has its merits, but the only way to build a life is to focus on the future and to make it happen.
It took me a long time to learn that. It took closing my eyes and jumping—a leap of faith.
Michelle always tells me I should have hope.
Now, I do.
I have hope that this is going to be a hell of a ride, and our happy ending awaits.
Chapter 30
Noah
The park is beautiful. The sun bakes warmly, the ground has thawed, and the trees sport new leaves, changing everything from what must have been a drab, winter landscape to the promise of a summer that will follow in Spring’s footsteps.
Birds chirp in the trees. A bunch of kids play kickball a short distance away, and the melodious murmur of their French comments floats to me on the breeze.
Somewhere a dog barks, and a fountain nearby completes the picture.
But I can’t take in any of it. My palms are sweaty, and I bounce my leg on the ball of one foot. My heart beats a mile a minute.
Fuck, I can’t remember when last I’ve been this nervous.
Hell, nervous doesn’t even begin to cover it.
I’m downright scared.
Pussy, I scold myself. But talking smack to myself isn’t going to rile me up into a state of adrenaline that will help me through this. Since I went to school, I’ve played football against guys three times my size. I can look any Linebacker in the face and still insult his mama.
It’s ironic that the thing getting me so worked up right now is not a muscled beast on the football field, is not a CEO in a boardroom, and it’s not a bunch of women who expect me to perform.
No, it’s a little girl.
In about five minutes, I’m going to meet my daughter. I have an idea what she looks like—I’ve seen photos. But that’s nothing like the real thing. And I’m shit scared I’m going to fuck it up, somehow. What if I’m not a good father? What if she doesn’t like me? Hell, she could just as well turn around and tell her mom she wants nothing to do with me after today.
I’ve been absent in her life the past five years. It wasn’t my choice, but that’s not her fault. All she knows is a life in which I don’t exist.
What if that’s the life she prefers?
I glance around the park, looking for Raven. I need to get this over and done with before I have a heart attack.
