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When he lifted me, and I felt the swollen head of his cock at my core, I knew my body pulled him inside me.
Never in my life have I felt so connected to someone, and I don’t mean physically. I mean, on a level almost otherworldly. Energetically.
Our eyes locked, saying so many things our words just couldn’t. His enormous body owning me, protecting me, possessing me.
I may have been a virgin, but I would bet every dollar I had that no one will ever make me feel like that again.
Not even Decker.
The only thing I understand, Isabelle Walton, is that what just happened between us is far more than anything I’ve ever felt. Go home to Todd, then call me when you realize you are in love with me.
I already know.
Only I can’t tell him.
How can I love him and not forgive him for putting those other women before me?
How can I be in love with him when I spent the most terrifying week with him running for my life? It can’t be real. I belong with my family. This is where I’m expected to be. To marry Todd in under six months and start my own family.
Not with a Marine. A man whose job puts him in constant danger where he’s lived a rough life doing things that terrify me. My God, he killed a man with his bare hands right in front of me.
And. Didn’t. Blink.
It has to have been circumstantial—just fake feelings, given the experience we shared. Our chemistry was real; I don’t doubt that.
And I don’t regret a single thing.
When Mack came to get me from the bedroom on the plane to prepare for landing, my heart was beating like a jackhammer as I walked back out to the main area of the plane.
Decker didn’t avert his eyes, but they didn’t give anything away, either.
“Water?” he asked, handing me a bottle as I sat a few seats away from him.
“Thanks,” I’d said, taking it and opening the lid. To this very moment, I cannot remember if I drank it or not. I just sat there as the plane began to descend, Decker's body the only thing in my existence.
Then, the landing jolted me out of my trance.
He was up and out of his seat before I could say anything. When I stepped down the stairs and saw my parents in the distance, I felt like I was in no-man's-land. I stopped before him and leaned into him, kissing his cheek.
I wasn’t ready to leave.
I wanted him to stop me.
Then he told me to go.
Even then, as I sat in the car with his electrifying gaze on me, I thought he would close the distance and save me.
From what? My life? A life without him.
He knew, as I did, that nothing could happen.
As life continued to happen, separating us, the hands of time would keep ticking. Until we drove away.
Now I’m here. And Decker is... not. All I’m left with is just the shell of the person I once was.
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THREE HOURS LATER,showered and with a few restless hours of sleep under my belt, I stand in my wardrobe looking for something to wear.
