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“I was looking for Ayla.” He pointed at her still playing with my leg. “She’s the one who disturbed them. Not me. Then again, we heard the shower going mighty late last night, so I’m guessing they weren’t exactly catching up on beauty sleep.”
He winked.
Neri groaned.
My heart squeezed.
Teddy rested his head on Eddie’s shoulder. “Guess what? They told her. Ayla knows. How freaking awesome is this?” Standing straight, he suddenly clapped and announced, “We’re celebrating. Right now. Get up. Both of you. Champagne breakfast coming right up!”
“Oh God.” Neri laughed. “You’re insane. You made me vow that we’d save that bottle for when we finally break ground on Lunamare.”
“Seriously, Nee?” Teddy crossed his arms. “Who cares about that? You’d rather save a four-hundred-dollar bottle of champagne on a business venture that will probably never happen over the fact that your lover has come back from the dead?” He rolled his eyes dramatically. “And you call yourself a romantic. I take it back. You don’t believe in miracles. You’re just deluded.”
A pillow went flying as Neri tossed it at his face. “Careful. I could still cut you out of the company.”
“The penniless company.” Teddy waggled his eyebrows. “Come along. Less arguing, more drinking. Aslan...I want to hear everything.”
With a dip of his chin, Eddie murmured, “I apologise for my husband. He’s just a tad excited. We both are. We’ve never known someone to come back from the grave before.”
Teddy suddenly yanked Eddie out of the door and down the corridor, his voice trailing back. “Neri, go raid our wardrobe for your reincarnated man. He can’t wear that stuffy shirt and pants on a hot morning like this. Ayla, come help me make pancakes for your dad. Aslan, get dressed and come join us!”
“Wait for me!” Ayla scurried off the bed and charged after them.
The peace after the sparkling energy of their presence made the silence between Neri and me all the more potent. Our eyes met and held.
For the longest moment, we didn’t say anything, but finally, she crawled into my arms and kissed me.
I cupped her cheeks and kissed her back, licking her bottom lip, losing myself to her like I always did. When she finally pulled away, the blankets had tented above my waist and the last thing I wanted was pancakes.
“Are you okay?” She nuzzled my nose with hers. “Is this all too much? Say if you need more time. You were so supportive and wonderful when I was healing after what Ethan did to me. You knew when I was hurting and gave me things I needed, despite your wishes. It’s my turn to protect you. And if you’d rather stay here, processing that you’re not being hurt and everything is better now, then they’ll understand.”
The seriousness of her question wasn’t lost on me.
The history between us and the darkness in which we’d swum swirled around us. I took a moment to figure out how to give her the truth.
A truth she probably wouldn’t believe because even I didn’t believe it.
After a lifetime of fighting the black smog of depression. Of living with a cloud constantly hovering over me, I hadn’t gotten used to the sunshine in my soul. The endless happiness that didn’t just come from her, or this, or freedom...but me.
I was happy, despite everything that’d happened.
I was happy because of everything that’d happened.
The reasons were scrambled in my head. I struggled to put them into comprehensive sentences, and while my mind figured out the puzzle of what I needed to say, I grabbed her around the waist and shifted her over my lap.
I sucked on my bottom lip as she straddled me, rocking herself over my hardness. Her breath caught and her nightgown rose up, sending me straight into lust.
The blankets between us drove me fucking crazy, and the heat and weight of her threatened to push me to an edge that was always far too easy to fall over whenever she touched me.
“Seni tekrar istiyorum,” I whispered. (I want you again).
Flicking a look at the corridor, Neri leaped off my lap, darted across her small bedroom, closed the door, engaged the lock, then pulled her nightgown over her head.
Fuck, she’s stunning.
Every curve.
Every shadow.
