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CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
Bad Love by Ry X
In his bedroom upstairs, the view and aroma are all him. Salt wafts with waves of vanilla and leather, and I’m immersed in Redix.
“Your last surprise is out there.” He points toward the balcony. “I wanted to wait until sunset to light those candles.”
He put them in jars like our prom night on the beach. They surround the mattress he pulled off the bed. It’s in front of the glass wall to the waves crashing beyond.
It’s so romantic. It’s seduction laced with memories, and it sews back together the ripped seams of my soul.
“You remember so much,” I swear if he’s not making me laugh, he’s making me cry, and all I feel is everything.
“This is how I imagined it.” His touch lingers across my shoulder. “I used to lie in bed alone and dream that if I got you back one day, I’d bring you here for our first time together again.”
I face him, worried.
“You didn’t like our time in New York?”
“I loved it. I think I lost my mind fucking you again, but that’s not how I wanted it to be. I know I hurt you too.”
I’m the asshole. “I’ll wait.” I pushed him too far, to the savage night that left us raw.
But after all that time apart, it’s what we needed. To let desire rage from our bodies. But we need this now. To let it heal us too.
“However you imagined it,” I say, “just tell me.”
“The guest bedroom across the landing. You’ll find all you need in there. A spa shower too. Take your time and meet me back here.”
I like his plan, and I love it even more when I see a gift box wrapped in a purple ribbon on the guest bed. In it, I find a white lace bra and panty set. It rushes my body. The panties are crotchless. The bra has no cups. Under it?
My jean jacket.
The one he gave me for my sixteenth birthday. The one he wrote in purple Sharpie inside that’s still there.
My Candy Cade,
This will keep you warm when I’m not around. But I promise I’ll be back for you.
I left it in his car that day… before that night.
And he kept it all this time.
And I keep shaking it off. The tears that want to take me, but desire keeps them at bay.
I know we have to swim through every emotion together, no matter how terrifying or terrific if we want to crawl to shore together. If we want to survive.
While I’m in the shower, he taps on the door, telling me my luggage is there if I need it. Wearing his gifts, I only need to slick my hair back, spritz on BOUND perfume, dab on some cherry lip balm, and grab one surprise in my hand.
Dusk colors the walls of his home as I find my way back to his bedroom. Lust pools between my thighs as I push all other thoughts away but him.
No matter what, I’ll remember this night. How I know he’ll indulge me. How he’ll make me beg and then deliver. How our bodies always come together even if our lives can’t.
I don’t see him at first with pillows stacked high atop the mattress outside. Sunset smears over the ocean, giving way to night above. Candles glow in a circle around the bed. There’s a wooden tray beside it with his ceramic bowls. My steps travel over teak boards until I find him lying there, and I gasp at the stunning sight.
Redix is nude, his hair spilling across the pillow while his tan, shredded body reclines across white sheets on the bed. With one arm relaxing above his head, from his biceps to his pecs to his dozen carved abs, it’s all seducing my eyes to where he’s very eager for me.
“May I?”
