Page 77 of Let Me

“Then sit down and let the lady finish your pedicure at least.”

“No.I have to go.”I lean down to hug her and then say, “I’ll call you later.”

Just as quickly as I came inside, I’m right back out the door, in my car and headed home to Judah.

When I pull up in the driveway, I park, jump out and leave everything inside – purse, phone and all, and run to the door.Twisting the knob, my eyes land on him standing in front of the island as if he’d been standing there waiting for me.

A tear slides from my eye and down my right cheek when I run to him.I jump into his arms, close my legs around his torso, my arms around his neck and cry.

“Baby.”

“I love you, Judah.”

“I know.”

“You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

“You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me, Autumn.Look at me.”

I release his neck so I can look into his eyes.

He says, “I’m okay.”

“I can see that now,” I say, smiling through the overflow of emotions that have changed me into this woman – this wife – who simply desires nothing in the world but to be happy, love my family, and love my husband.

Placing my hands on both sides of his face, I hold him firmly and kiss his lips.

He groans.

I kiss him deeper, sucking on his tongue.I need it.I need him.All of him.I only release it to breathe, or more like gasp, and then I go back in again, kissing him with an intensity that has my body shaking.My body shakes even more when I feel his hand sliding beneath my blouse and up my back.

“Mmm, Judah,” I say against his lips.“I love to feel your hands on my body.”

He walks to the bedroom effortlessly, holding all one hundred and fifty pounds of me.Lowering me to the bed, he pulls my dress over my head, then stands there and uses his fingertips to stroke my curves.He removes my bra, fiddles with my softness.I close my eyes, bite my lip and will myself to breathe.

He leans close to my neck.I feel the air from his nose graze my skin.He’s breathing me in.Familiarizing himself with me.

“Judah…” I gasp, my chest moving in and out quickly as I anticipate his next move.

He drops to his knees.I move back until I’m sitting on the bed, trying to move away from him because I wanted to be the one in control tonight.He doesn’t let me – not yet, anyway.He pulls me closer to the edge of the bed, devouring me to his liking.I’m so gone, so insanely pleasured, I think I may have died.Am I still alive?

“Judah,” I manage to say in a whimper.

He stands, crawls up over me until his lips touch mine.His fingers are working the most sensitive part of me – massaging and driving me insane.I close my eyes and gasp.

“Don’t close your eyes.Look at me,” he says.

“How am I supposed to do that, Love?”

“Try.”

“I’ll tr…tr…try.Mmm, Judah.”

“Open them, please.”

“Okay, okay, okay,” I say desperately.“I will.”

I keep my eyes focused on him, watching his pupils dilate as he pleases me.Strokes me.Whispers against my lips that he loves me.

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