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“I thought you said you’d stay until he was caught?” Mia asks from next to me. When I chance a glance in her direction, she’s resting her head against Jay’s chest, worrying her bottom lip between her teeth. I’ve never seen her this insecure.
“There’s no reason for me to stay at this point,” I reply, my eyes leaving hers and finding Jay’s. “Spence will find him. The next time you see me will be when you are walking down the aisle.”
I imagine Mia rolling her eyes at my comment, but I can’t pull my attention away from Jay. His eyes are dark and stormy, the deep blue specks disappearing behind the darker hue. His intentions are clear in the way his eyes are devouring me, causing my skin to prickle and desire to pool deep inside of me.
“I’m holding you to that,” I hear Mia say as she wraps her arms around me.
I’m going to miss her and Spencer. It’s been hard seeing them again. This entire trip was a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Still, in the end I’m glad I came. I’m happy I was able to reconnect with them. And I think Spencer was right.
Celebrating Sam’s life was healing. I couldn’t have done that alone. We fell apart together, and we needed to heal together.
I feel stronger than I have in years. I’ve smiled more in the last two days than I have the last two years.
And my heart no longer feels like it’s caught in a vise grip, tightening at every turn.
“I’d like to come with you tomorrow,” Jay says as he shuts the door to my room behind us.
“You’re more than welcome. It’s not going to take long. Twenty minutes maybe. Then I need to come back here and pack. My flight leaves at four,” I explain, not wanting to think about the fact I’m leaving him in a little over twelve hours.
Unsure of when the next time I’ll see him.
Knowing I love him and always have but also aware of the fact we have two completely different lives to get back to, on opposites sides of the country.
“I have to get on the road by one o’clock. How about I drive us to the station and then I’ll bring you back here on my way out of town?” he suggests, pulling his shirt over his head and tossing it across the room as he’s become accustom to.
Not going to lie, I like it. Not just the way he looks without a shirt on. Or his tattoo that gives him a bit of an edge I wasn’t aware he had.
No, I like the way his muscles flex as he pulls his shirt off. The way they tighten when stretched over his head.
Most of all, I like the way my heart skips a beat as it happens. And the wicked smile on his face that always makes its presence known, as if he knows the dirty thoughts running through my mind and agrees with every single one of them.
“That’s fine,” I state, reaching out and tracing the outline of his abs with my pointer finger.
“You keep doing that and you’re going to get yourself in trouble. I have other plans for us tonight,” he says, taking my hand in his and pressing it flat against the center of his chest. I can feel the pounding of his heart against my palm.
“What did you have in mind?” I tease, raising an eyebrow at him as I stare deep into his hazel eyes. They’ve softened since the bar, or maybe it’s something else reflecting in his stare.
“I want to hold you, Drea. I want to know what it feels like when you fall asleep in my arms. I want to see the look of content on your face as my body wraps around yours.”
“That’s all you want?”
“For tonight, yes. More than anything, I want you to feel my love wrapped around you. Tomorrow, when we say good-bye, I don’t want there to be any doubt in your mind that it’s only temporary. That we were meant to be together and we’ll find a way. Because I’m not giving up on us. Five years didn’t change the way I felt about you, nothing ever will.”
With that, Jay pulls my lips to his. His kiss is tender but passionate. When he licks the seam of my lips, I open for him. I expect his patience to wear thin as he deepens our kiss, but he remains strong as he begins to undress me.
By the time we’re both in only our underwear, tucked under the covers, I’m a ball of tension and need. The moment he tucks his body against mine, a single word echoes through my mind.
Home.
