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I scoot forward a few inches and tug my shirt over my head, tossing it aside. The moment she sees it, all air leaves the room. “Gavin,” she gasps. “I… I don’t know what to say.”
As I sit back against the cushion, she shifts closer to me. Her fascination with the ink is cute. By the way she studies it, I know she wants to run her fingers over it. “It’ll heal over the next week,” I inform her.
Her eyes well as she peeks up at me. “You know that’s forever, right?”
“You are my forever, Cora. No other name will brand my skin. No other woman will have my heart. It has belonged to you since the first day of high school. The day I joined you under that tree and you drew me beside you on a sketch pad.”
Tears spill from her eyes. “You’re my forever, too. I tried to move on for so many years. Tried to care for another person. God, how I tried. But it never happened. Even when I tried to force it. Because I could never imagine life with someone other than you. So, I tucked you away for safekeeping in the hopes you would return.”
I pinch the ends of her hair and play with it between my fingers. Fuck, I want to kiss her. But I promised I wouldn’t kiss her until she initiated the kiss. And fuck if that isn’t the most difficult vow to keep right now. Because everything about this day, this moment, cries out for me to lean forward and press my lips to hers.
She brings a hand to my other pec and skims over the flesh. Electricity shoots through every atom, cell, and molecule in my body. I swear to god, if she doesn’t kiss me soon, I will break my promise. Because as patient as I am, this is pure torture.
Just as I am ready to cave on my desires, she leans forward and presses her lips to my left pec, an inch above the tattoo. “I love you,” she says, breath hot on my skin.
And a switch flips inside me. Fire heats my blood, scorches my skin, has me panting for breath. I become a starved man and Cora is what my body needs to survive.
