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“Don’t.”
“I didn’t say anything!”
Delta rolls her eyes and flops back onto the mattress, lips turned down unhappily. She looks exhausted. Something about seeing her alone in that bed, hurting, chips away a little more at the tattered remnants of my self-control.
“Move over.”
Her eyes snap back onto me, widening in surprise. She doesn’t ask questions though, just scoots closer to the center of the bed so I can swing both my legs up onto the mattress and pull the blankets she’d kicked to the end over us.
I curl myself against her back, realizing too late that I’d jumped out of bed without bothering to put something else on. I’m dressed only in a paint splattered pair of gym shorts and my bare chest presses directly against Delta’s back, her tiny tank-top and panties the only things separating us. I have to bite back a groan at feeling of her skin on mine.
She must be suffering similarly because I hear a soft gasp as I wrap my arm around her waist, pulling us securely together.
“Tell me about your dream.” I ask gently, the scent of her surrounding me as we settle in.
Delta sucks in a breath. Her fingers fiddle with the strap of her shirt, and I lace mine over them, tucking her closer. “It’s different every time.” She admits softly. “Sometimes I’m trapped under the snow, or in my old bedroom, or alone in the woods. My leg is black or hurt or something.” She exhales shakily and I kiss her shoulder, heart aching for her. She doesn’t deserve this pain or fear, if I could, I would take it from her a hundred times over.
We’re silent for a long time before Delta speaks again. “I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want. Who I want to be now that I’ve given up snowboarding.”
“What have you decided?”
Delta shifts closer to me, one toned, soft skinned leg tangling with my own. “My Mom was an actress; did you know that?”
“I didn’t.” Though it makes sense, given the beauty of her daughter. God knows she doesn’t take after River.
“She died when I was about six months old. Car accident. I don’t remember her.”
“I’m sorry.”
Delta shrugs against me. “I don’t know a lot about her. She and Dad had a contentious relationship, so I think he saw it as a blessing that he could raise us how he wanted, without interference. I’ve never met her parents or that side of my family.”
My hand tightens on hers reflexively but she sooths my tension with a gentle squeeze. There will never be a day that I don’t detest River Jacobs for what he did to Delta and, now that I’ve gotten to know them, Lake and Bay. They all carry the same trauma in different ways.
She sighs. “I guess my point is I’ve done the success thing, and it didn’t make me happy. I want to be happy now. I want people to love, who love me.” It feels like my heart is breaking apart and being put back together at her words, love for this woman filling me up so much it’s almost unbearable.
My arms tighten around her so there isn’t an inch between us, and still, it isn’t enough. “That’s all you want? To be loved?” I ask.
Delta exhales shakily and nods against my arm which she’s using as a pillow. “I know it’s a small thing,unexceptionalas my Dad would say, but that’s it. I want to be a wife, a Mom, and do it so well, you know?” I feel a tear drop to my arm, but she keeps speaking into the quiet room, battering away at what was left of my self-control.
I’d thought I was strong, I’d thought I was steady, but it was never enough to resist the storm that is Delta Jacobs.
“I won’t throw myself at you again, you don’t need to worry about that, Brooks. If you’re going to hate yourself for being with me, you won’t be with me at all-“
But whatever she was going to say is lost as the last fragment of my doubt crumbles away and I don’t wait a single second longer to crash my lips down on hers.
Delta’s lips part in a gasp and I take control of her mouth, kissing and biting and licking so fiercely my head spins. I’m out of control, spurred on by the noises of desperate pleasure from the woman beneath me.
I’m kissing her. I’m kissing Delta. The realization hits me over and over again, so utterly insane it doesn’t seem possible.But it is.
I break away, staring down into the wide eyes of the woman I love, and despite the fact it feels like we’re doing everything out of order, I can’t wait another second to tell her. “I love you.” My voice is rough and desperate. “I fucking love you, Delta.You want to be loved? You are. You want a family? I’ll give you one.” I’ll give her anything, just so long as she keeps looking at me like that.
Tears are shining in her eyes now and a joyful little laugh bubbles from her lips, quickly silenced by another desperate kiss.
Her legs part, wrapping securely around my waist so there’s nothing between us but my thin shorts and her panties. I can feel her wetness sliding against the iron hard length of my cock as I grind into her. I could spill just from this feeling and the knowledge thatI made her wet.
“Brooks!” Delta’s hands on my face pull me back from her, even as she keeps her legs locked around my waist, sopping wet pussy nestled against my cock. She smiles, and it’s the most radiant thing I’ve ever seen in my life. “I love you too.”
I know she does. I can feel it.
