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Justus. And we both feel it as strong as the climax he just gave me. And just as strong as the feeling of the new life he’s put inside me.
As the world slowly comes back into focus, I also become silently aware of just how quiet everything is.
The old house, the neighborhood outside.
It all feels like something we’ve both left behind already.
It really does feel like Brandon’s coming back to town was all for me.
And not just to claim me, but to keep me. To lift me up and carry me off to the new life we have waiting for us.
Neither of us says anything for a long time. From his reaction, we just bask in the afterglow of what I know is the most intense thing either of us has ever felt.
And it’s when I feel so totally calm and relaxed again, almost to the point of sleeping, that his deep voice makes me jump a little.
It’s like waking up from a dream but having the real thing right beside me.
“Can I get you anything? You want something?” Brandon asks, his face looking like it’s permanent from now on.
“I think you just gave me what I needed,” I answer him, my eyes growing wide as I puff a long breath out.
“I may never walk straight again, but I’m good,” I assure him, snuggling close as he gently hooks one of his huge arms around me.
I let out a low groan after a while, remembering everything I was supposed to do today.
Wondering, too, how a man like Brandon can be so relaxed, so in command of everything all the time.
It’s like he never has a problem in the world, and I know that he has ten times the responsibilities I do.
“What is it?” he asks, but a single glance tells him everything.
My life before this morning is still out there, waiting.
And he takes a slow breath of his own as he pulls me closer.
Both of us are fully aware that we’re too deep to avoid any of the fallout we both know is going to come from all this and our own happiness.
As if on cue, my cell chimes from somewhere on the floor. All of our clothes and most of the bedsheets are strewn about the room as if it’s just been ransacked.
“There’s no getting out of it, I guess,” Brandon murmurs, echoing my own inner thoughts.
“We could just stay in bed all day,” I counter, hoping he’ll agree.
Wishing the rest of the world could just leave us both alone forever, not just for today.
But it was never gonna be that simple.
He surprises me by agreeing, the keenest pleasure in his voice at the idea.
“And your dad can just drop in and sit in the corner while I fill you full of babies,” he half groans, spelling it out for both of us.
The only thing that’s been the real barrier between us is my dad.
I crease the side of my mouth, knowing we’re both in about as deep as it can get without my dad knowing. And if we’re gonna truly be happy together, there’s only one thing to do about it, and that’s tell him.
I love my dad, and I know Brandon does too, in his own masculine kinda way. And neither of us want to hurt my dad.
And I don’t want it to look like I’m abandoning him.
