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“Noah,” I whisper before his head gets lost in between my thighs. He raises his head just a smidge, enough for me to see all his beautiful features. “I love you.”
The way his hungry expression morphs into utter worship and adoration makes my knees weak. His hands grab my knees, keeping them still as he continues to stare into my eyes.
“All my forevers, Sky. All of them,” he whispers lovingly before dropping his mouth to my apex, ensuring that every thought and worry in my head vanishes, until all there is, is him.
Chapter 28
Noah
Eighteen years old
My fingers run through Sky’s long brown hair as she lays her head on my lap and takes in the rays of sun shining down on her heart-shaped face. It’s one of those warm May afternoons, hinting that summer is fast approaching us. Instead of being excited that graduation is just around the corner, I wish I could freeze time and just stay with her like this. Just me and Sky, sprawled out onto a blanket near the old lighthouse on old man Winter’s land, situated on the highest cliff of the island, the sea breeze lightly kissing our cheeks and fanning our hair.
It's been six months to the day that we’ve been together, and each day feels even more precious to me than the one before. But soon, lazy days like this one will all be over. I’ll have to start working on my father’s boat, and Sky will be busy with her community college classes, only coming home at night.
That’s okay.
At least the nights and weekends will be ours.
Working with my father doesn’t seem so bad to me anymore if I can come home to her.
Speaking of home, we should start packing up and getting back. The parentals still don’t know about us, but if we keep coming home around the same time after school, then they’ll start to connect the dots fast. And I’m not ready for my father to put a damper on our relationship. It’s perfect just the way it is.
“We should head back, little stalker. Pretty soon my dad will pick your mom up from the hospital, and we need to be home before they arrive.”
“I don’t want to,” she mumbles sluggishly, wrapping her arms around my waist. “Why don’t we stay here forever? We can live in the lighthouse and fish for our supper. We can just disappear and make a life here.”
I chuckle at how she snuggles into me, not wanting to end this perfect afternoon.
“As much as I would love nothing more than to shack up with you here, I think we could do a little better than a rickety old, abandoned lighthouse.”
Her eyelids slowly open to look up at me.
“Have you…have you thought about things like that? Us living together, I mean?” she asks nervously.
I nod with a smile, swiping the errant stands of her hair off her face.
“And what would that look like? Our home?” she asks expectantly, the silver hue in her eyes twinkling brightly.
“At first, we would probably live in a little apartment in town since we would only have my income to live off of. But after you graduated from college, and got a publishing deal, then we could buy something nicer. Maybe a house right at the beach so your office could face the ocean. It would feel like you were watching over me when I was off at sea.”
She closes her eyes, her smile stretching on her beautiful face.
“Tell me more,” she whispers, picturing the life we’re about to have.
“You’d write your heart out, creating magical worlds in that office, while I earned enough to buy the sailboat I always wanted. Once we could afford it, then we would pick up our things and sail the seven seas. I’m going to show you the world, little stalker. All of it. It will be our own little adventure. Something to help inspire your muse.”
She opens her eyes, the sadness coating them instantly making me frown.
“What’s wrong, baby? Don’t you like our life?”
“No. It’s not that.” She shakes her head. “I love it. All of it. But you know I’m scared of the water. No, not scared. I’m terrified of it.”
“Look at me, Sky,” I plead, raising her chin with my hand. “I’ll be there to protect you. No harm will ever come to you. Not as long as there is breath in my body. I promise you. I’ll keep you safe.”
She rises from my lap, only to push me down onto the blanket, her body covering mine. She stares into my eyes, and there is so much love in them, it takes all the air out of my lungs. I cup her cheeks as she continues to lovingly look at me.
“I can’t wait for our life to start,” she says whimsically.
