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“Okay.”
I was already feeling lost and more than a little desperate. “Will you do something for me?” I asked tentatively, my voice barely above a whisper.
“Name it.”
“Will you come with me? Just, you know, hold me?”
“Of course.”
He followed me into the bedroom, curling up behind me when I lay down, his arm wrapped around my waist. I let out a sigh, trying to force my body to relax, but it just wasn’t happening, even though I felt so tired and raw.
“Can’t get comfy?”
“Something like that.” I rolled over to face him, searching his face for…I didn’t really know what. He brushed my hair back from my forehead, then lay his hand on my cheek in a gesture of such tenderness that I could have cried. “Kiss me.”
He did. Sweetly, gently, softly. Maybe it was only meant to be comforting, but I needed more. I shifted closer, hooking my leg over his hip, opening my lips for him. Our tongues tangled and he ran his hand down my back, cupping my ass, pressing his erection to my center.
I whimpered as the heat gathered in my belly. “I think you should get naked,” I said, trying to lighten the intensity of our mood.
He smiled, pulling back from me just enough to pull his shirt off. “I will if you will.” He helped me out of my sweater, his eyes flashing when he saw I wasn’t wearing a bra. I pushed at the waistband of his sweats and he shifted so I could push them down over his hips. He did the same for me, until we were both naked, skin to skin, facing each other.
I closed my eyes when Dante rolled me onto my back, kissing his way down my body, settling between my legs. Giving myself up to the pleasure of his tongue on my clit, I finally was able to let go of the tension that had been bubbling under the surface. He lapped at me with his tongue until a different kind of tension filled me, one that begged for release. I chased that release, burying my fingers in his hair, arching my back, coming with a low moan before collapsing back onto the bed.
I welcomed him when he crawled up my body, wrapping my arms around his neck and my legs around his hips. With his eyes dark and intense on mine, he pushed his cock into me, filling me, kissing me, pushing me to the edge again.
The mid-morning winter sunlight filtered into the room, carrying our soft sighs on its shimmering light. Our lovemaking was slow and gentle, and I knew it for what it was. It was goodbye.
I buried my face in his neck as I came a second time. I didn’t want him to see the devastation in my eyes.
CHAPTER37
Dante
“What are you doing here?”
“What? I can’t visit my brother at his base one last time before I head home?”
“You’re heading home?”
“Yeah, I can’t sit around waiting for you to get your shit together forever, you know.”
“I have no idea what you mean by that.”
“I guess you don’t. I looked it up, there’s a bowling alley here. Let’s do that.”
“You want to go bowling?”
“You know it. I wanna whoop your ass.”
“You have never, ever, whooped my ass at bowling.”
“Today’s the day, bro. I feel it in my waters. We can walk to the rec center, if you like. It’s not far from here, right?” Stef headed out of the reception center on the words and, with a heavy frown of confusion on my face, I followed her. She was her usual whirlwind self, stirring up chaotic energy everywhere she went. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, though to be fair, I was more than a little shaken up lately. “I’m assuming you’ve got time?”
“I figured you’d gotten in touch with one of my superiors and wheedled my schedule out of them, because it just so happens I do have time. I can give you two hours. Then I have a meeting.”
“Perfect!” We stepped into the rec center and headed straight for the bowling alley. “It’s one of my favorite things to do, you know.”
“What is?” I selected a pair of bowling shoes I thought might be her size and grabbed a pair for myself.
