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IwaketoEffietracing my chest tattoo.1She lightly follows the winding lines of the Celtic knot, and I pretend I am still asleep. I don’t know why. Maybe because I don’t want this moment to end. Her soft breasts push against my side with every steady breath she takes. My arm is wrapped around her back and her silky hair drapes over it. The birds are heralding a new day outside the window, and even with my eyes closed, I can picture the morning sun coloring the loft a hazy gold.
“Good morning.” Her voice is husky and sweet, thick with sleep.
“I’m asleep,” I mumble with a small teasing smile.
“You’re drumming on my hip,” she laughs, and I squeeze my hand on her naked hip, unaware I was tapping, but not surprised. “Have you noticed how often you do that? It’s like you’re trying to communicate in morse code or something.”
I open my eyes and look down at her face. Her dark eyelashes rim her honeyed brown eyes and a touch of pink from sleep colors her cheeks. “It’s because I am.”
She tilts her head and rolls onto her elbow at my side. “You are what?”
I tuck a loose lock behind her ear and fight the urge to keep my secret a little longer. The words are loose on my tongue, ready to spill but still my throat goes dry. I meet her gaze and swallow the last of my resistance. “Using morse code.”
She perks up, her interest piqued. “Really? What does it mean?” She looks at me with a love I can’t even begin to comprehend, but at the same time, understand inherently. My love for her is woven into the very fibers of my being, and I want her to know how deeply she has touched me.
“Water lilies.” Her mouth opens on a silent gasp. My throat ties itself in knots feeling so exposed. But now that I’ve started, I want to claw apart anything left unsaid between us, so I continue. “It was the first and last time I ever felt true peace. That night with you. Since I didn’t have you, tapping became my calm.”
“Stop.” Her lips tug in an unsure smile, her eyes well with tears and I don’t have to ask, I know they are the sunflower type.
“I can’t.” I roll us over and hold myself above her. “I can’t stop loving you. I don’t think I ever did.” She clutches my face and pulls my mouth down to hers. I fall into our kiss, trying to make up for ten years. My nose drags over her tear-streaked cheeks, and I can’t control the overwhelming feeling exploding in my chest.
It’s beyond happiness, beyond lust, beyond this fucking life. She’s mine in this lifetime and the next. Suddenly I’m questioning what’s ten years when we have forever?
I can hardly let her go when she pulls us apart, breathing heavy and eyes welling with emotion. “I love you, Finneas Fox.” My lungs somehow find a way to breathe, despite the weight of her words slamming into me with the force of a thousand comets.
My jaw clenches painfully and my throat tightens into a tight ball. I can’t look away from her, my entire world between the palms of my hands. She reaches out and brushes her thumb across my cheek. “I hope those are sunflower tears.”
I sniff and swallow the knot in my throat, falling forward and burying myself in the crook of her neck. “Fuck, I love you so much.” I feel like I’m breaking apart, my ribs cracking open and my heart floating out to hers.
She wraps her arms around my head and shoulders, hugging me tight to her. But fuck, it’s not close enough. I kiss her neck, a burst of salty sweat from last night on my tongue. And I want more. I inhale the scent of her hair and kiss a path across her collarbone, licking over my blood, and suck on her nipple.
She arches into me and threads her fingers through my hair. “Show me,” she says on a breathy moan and reaches between our bodies to encircle my cock, directing it to her cunt.
My broad head slots against her pussy, and I grab her face, kissing her deeply as I sink into her, swallowing her moans like they are air itself. There’s nothing hurried or rough about the way I slowly rock into her.
She clings to my shoulders, biting down hard on my lip when I hit the sweet spot inside her. Our breathless pants fill the space between our lips as tender pleasure skates up and down my spine.
If last night was a wildfire, this morning is the warmth from a hearth. The foundation of a home. A home that we have found with and in each other.
Her pussy flutters around me and her kisses become pleading as her pleasure spirals. I keep my strokes passionate and intentional, her body pulling my own release forward. Our breathing becomes choppy as if we share one set of lungs, our desire and euphoria cresting together. Sparks ignite behind my eyes as I come, but I can’t look away from the rapture dancing across her face. Watching her brows pinch together and her mouth falls slack on a silent cry as she comes with me is a beauty that would rival the northern lights.
My limbs become liquid, and I melt into her, falling to the side and pulling her into me. My hands wrap around her soft belly as her ass snuggles into the crook of my hips. I catch my breath, slowly running my fingers through her tangled hair. My hand snags on something and I huff a laugh as I pull a twig out of her hair.
“I think I owe you a long hot shower.” I hold out the twig in front of her to see.
She twists around in my arms to face me. “I’d say so. You have mud on your cheek. But I don’t really care…” She raises her brows with a proud smile. “About that or the mud on the sheets.”
Steam fills the shower, and I rinse the shampoo out as Effie wrings her hair, already done bathing. “By the way, what does Juicy tracksuits andStar WarsDVDs mean?”
She looks at me and laughs, a cute drop of water sliding down her nose. “It had to do with a story Hadis told me. I needed to prove the text was genuinely coming from me.”
“I’d like to hear it sometime. The story.”
“Okay.” She smiles and gives me a quick peck as she pulls the shower curtain back. I slap her ass on her way out. “Hey!”
“Spousal privilege.” I shrug smugly and step back under the hot stream of water.
