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He stripped me of my clothes and slowly touched every inch of my skin with his hands and his mouth. By the time he entered me, my body was strung tight with need. I needed him inside me.
I arched into him as he slid inside. He slowly pumped inside, taking me higher and higher, his mouth never leaving mine until I was soaring through the air. My mind seemingly detached from reality as he went over a few seconds later. He rested beside me, his hand resting on the side of my face.
“This doesn’t seem real.” It had a dream-like quality to it.
The soft light from the moon outside illuminated his face. “You can trust in me. Our life gets to be this good,” he said.
“I love that.”
“I love you.” Then he kissed me until my lips were swollen and my body was ready for more. He made love to me again. It was like we had to have our hands on each other. I knew our need for each other would wane eventually, but for now, I needed the physical assurances that he was there. That he was real. That our life would always be that amazing.
“I can’t wait for our life to begin,” he said reverently.
Gazing in his eyes, I said, “It started when I saw you across the room at Ethan and Savannah’s wedding.”
Nick smiled softly. “We should have known then.”
“I didn’t need to leave a note or a number. We were destined to find one another.”
“You’re my destiny. My future. My one and only love.”
I smiled softly. “There you go again with the sweet words.”
“I needed you to feel my love.”
He wrapped me in his arms, and I felt the love surrounding me, buoying me, protecting me. He would be our rock. I knew that without a doubt. There was nothing he wouldn’t do to prove it to us.
I couldn’t believe I’d questioned it for so long. I’d pushed him away. Made him prove himself, again and again. But he was patient, and we were meant to be. Now that we’d found each other, nothing would ever come between us.
Twenty-Eight
ABBY
It was Sylvia and Dan’s wedding day. The bride wanted to get married in the little church on the circle in Annapolis and hold the reception across the street in the Maryland Inn’s ballroom. It was one of our signature packages. We’d done it a few times before, so everything should have run smoothly.
But Lily had to switch out the flowers when one of her refrigerators died overnight. Then Lily’s delivery van, which was older than all of us, died en route. I had some time before I needed to be in the bridal suite taking pictures, so I volunteered to pick up Lily.
It was the start of our spring wedding season, but it felt like things weren’t running as smoothly as the fall and winter months.
I found Lily on the side of the road next to her blue VW van. It was her grandmother’s and had sentimental value to her. As a delivery van, it wasn’t reliable. Lily needed to find another solution, but none of us had the heart to tell her she needed a new one.
I pulled behind her vehicle and got out to stand next to her on the side of the highway. Cars and trucks whizzed by at a high rate of speed, ruffling Lily’s maxi dress. Her blonde wavy hair was braided and hung over one shoulder.
“Are you okay?” I asked when I approached her.
Lily smiled. “Yeah, it’s Berta that’s not doing so hot.”
I couldn’t help the twitch of my lips at her grandmother’s name for the van. “I can see that. You have someone coming to tow it?”
Lily held up her phone. “I called a garage. They said they’d be here soon.”
I shivered when a tractor trailer roared by. “Are you sure it’s safe to stand out here?”
Before Lily could answer, the loud rumble of a truck caught our attention. The red tow truck pulled past her powder blue VW van, then backed up until it was parked directly in front of it.
The door with white lettering with the wordsHarbor Garage Service & Repairopened, and a man hopped out, striding toward us. “You called for a tow?”
The man’s voice was gruff, his jaw tight as he approached. His black company T-shirt was stretched taut across his chest and biceps. His worn jeans clung to his massive thighs, and his work boots ate up the distance between us
