Page 64 of Playing the Neutral Zone

I lowered my hands from his face, and he spun me around, so I was facing the glass panel of the shower.He took my hands, placing each one up on the glass above my head, then took his foot and knocked on each of my ankles, signaling me to spread my legs, which I did.He gripped my hips, pulling me back, and slid himself deep inside of me.

“So, you are off to Florida?”I questioned him as we stood in the airport.

Levi had decided that there was no need for me to stay at the hotel and that I’d just stay with him for the remainder of my stay in Vancouver, so I’d taken him up on that.

“Yeah, and then don’t forget stopping in New York on my way home.”

I nodded.I’d been hoping to have more time to rekindle than what we had, and while I tried not to allow my disappointment to show through, I knew it was.

“Listen, what is your schedule like?”Levi questioned, as we stood in line for me to get my boarding pass.

“Well, I have a full day of meetings for the rest of this week, and then I don’t know.”

“What would happen if you weren’t there in person, but you were attending them virtually?”

“I have to do that sometimes, and it’s never been an issue, but it’s normally when I’m away on an assignment.”

“Ah, I see.Well, what if I were your assignment?”Levi asked.

“How are you going to be my assignment?I don’t think they will look at wanting to be with my boyfriend as a work-related assignment.”I giggled.

Levi pulled me in closer, pressing a kiss to the side of my neck.“You don’t?”he said, this time biting my earlobe sending a shiver of excitement through my body.

I closed my eyes, willing myself to fight the feelings that were running through me now, and shook my head.

“No, I don’t.”

I heard the announcement for my flight over the speaker and looked at Levi.I could already feel the sense of loss and we hadn’t even said goodbye yet.

“I guess that means it time for you to go,” he said, taking hold of both my hands in his.

“Unfortunately,” I whispered, stepping closer to him, afraid to let him go.

“Message me when you get there okay.”

“Of course.”

Levi pulled me against him, kissing my mouth hard.I didn’t want to leave him.Hell, after everything I never wanted to leave his side again.These months we’d been apart had almost killed me, and had he not taken me in that night I showed up at his door, I’d have fallen apart.

“I love you,” he whispered the moment our lips parted.

“I love you too.”

I turned around after I’d made it through the security and waved, then made my way to my plane.

Chapter 20

Levi - Three Weeks Later

“Alright, is that everything?”I asked Scarlett as she came walking out the door.

“I think so.Everything I had before is still in storage in Vancouver.I was planning on saving up and having it all trucked here,” she said, wheeling a suitcase behind her while I carried the other one.

I opened the trunk of my rental and shoved her first bag in and then the second before turning to see her parents standing behind us on the sidewalk.

“You’re certain this is what you want?”her mother said to her as she turned to face them.

“Yes, Mom, this is what I want,” she whispered, giving her mother a hug.

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