Page 83 of Come Back to Me

CHAPTER 37

ANNIE

Trying to tiptoe to not wake Jack, I go over to his nightstand to leave him a note before I head out to run.

“Where are you going?” he murmurs, startling me.

“Shit!” I say, jumping.

He chuckles and gives me a sexy smirk that nearly melts my panties off.

“I thought you were sleeping. I’m gonna go on a run now, then come back and shower before we leave for your follow-up appointment.”

“I have a better idea, sugar,” he says in a sultry voice, pulling me down onto the bed, though, admittedly, I don’t resist at all.

Holding me on top of him, he kisses me, softly at first but, within seconds, the need we’ve both been feeling in the two weeks he’s been out of the hospital turns this kiss into one of the steamiest we’ve had in a while.

I can’t help but moan, loving the way his mouth is claiming mine and feeling it all the way down to my core.

“Fuck, Annie,” he says, sliding his hand down my bellyand heading for my panties. “You make the fucking sexiest sounds.”

I’m so distracted by the kiss and his words that I don’t stop him before his hand slips into my panties. However, I’m jolted from that distraction when he caresses my clit.

“Hell, you’re so wet for me,” he growls.

I should stop him immediately, to lessen the torture for both of us, but I take a few seconds before I roll myself off him because it feels so damn good.

“No, no, no,” I say, panting from the kiss. “Not until we get the go ahead from your doctor today.”

“Grrrrr,” he responds playfully, rolling onto his side to look at me.

He just stares at me for several long seconds, then, reaching up, he tenderly tucks a piece of my hair behind my ear and whispers, “God, you’re so beautiful, Annie. So damn stunning.”

I can’t stop myself from snorting. “I look like absolute hell right now, Jack,” I laugh. “You’d say I was beautiful if I was covered in mud and hadn’t showered in a week.”

He responds without missing a beat. “Because you would be, sugar. There will never be a day, in the near future, or when we’re wrinkled and celebrating our fiftieth wedding anniversary, that I won’t think you’re the most beautiful woman alive.”

This man and his words get to me in the best possible way. I smile at him, wondering how we got so lucky to find each other. Then come back to each other after falling apart.

“I love you, Jack… for always.”

JACK

“Fuck yeah,” I whisper-yell, fist pumping the air whenAnnie and I get into the hallway outside the doctor’s office. “Not only did I get the all-clear to get back to work next shift, but I got the okay to get back to working on showing that body of yours how much I love you. I even had the doctor write it on my note,” I say excitedly.

Laughing, Annie grabs the note from me. “You did not, Jack. Let me see that.”

As she reads the note, her cheeks turn a deep shade of red.

To Whom it May Concern,

Jack Donley is cleared for full return to duty at work, no restrictions.

He may also take part in sexual activities without restriction.

“Oh my God,Jack! You have to turn this into the fire department! I’ll never be able to meet your chief without dying of embarrassment,” she says, giggling like a teenage girl.

“I don’t care, babe. I didn’t want there to be any question in your mind that we are good to go when I get you home today,” I answer, smirking at her.

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