Page 63 of Honey Bun
She nodded. “Let’s go upstairs, then.”
I’d had her already, but the hunger had just grown since the first time. Maddie was everything I’d ever wanted and would ever want.
Chapter Nineteen
Maddie
That night, I had to tell him something. I had to stop lying to both of us. I loved him. I’d been in love with him since we were kids. And since I’d moved home, I’d only experienced joy as I fell deeper and deeper.
And I wasn’t good enough for him or able to satisfy him, but it didn’t seem to matter to him. As we headed to our room and he held me close, I didn’t mind that his phone beeped. I trusted him enough to know the bottom wouldn’t fall out of my life. My daughter loved him. And my heart knew that he was there for me.
He put his phone in his back pocket and opened the hotel door for me. I walked beside him as he said, “My mom is calling a meeting tomorrow, and she wants me there.”
Aurora was with Roxanne. My heart thumped. “About…?”
He checked that the door was closed and then said, “Elon’s opening up his own delivery center, and he wants to hire Leah as CEO.”
My daughter was fine. I pressed my hand to my heart. “Leah, as in Cyrus and his son?”
He nodded. “It seems Elon and Leah have talked business without bringing up Cyrus.”
I had no siblings, so I would never know what that felt like, but I thought I would be furious. I pressed his arm. “Do you want to head back to New York now, then, or first thing in the morning?”
“Sleeping in our beds means we’re closer to the meeting location.” He strummed his chest. “And tonight, we can take the helicopter with no visible staff to serve us.”
Earlier, I’d noticed that the waitstaff in the helicopter refilled whatever we consumed every few minutes. The section of the helicopter we would be sitting in was soundproof, so we would not be heard no matter what we did. I imagined us entirely naked. “The pilot is sealed off. That sounds like fun.”
He stared at my chest and back at me. “So, you don’t mind leaving early?”
I decided to change into the lounge shirt and pants that had been delivered and left near the door. “No. It sounds good, and we can stay at your place, so will be easy to go to your parents’ tomorrow.”
He grabbed his clothes from the bag and stripped. His muscles captivated my imagination as I remembered how he’d held me. He said, “The hotel will carry our belongings.”
I waved him off. Then I folded my dress into the bag my other clothes had been delivered in and rushed to his room. His tuxedo shirt had been tossed on the floor, but in less than one minute, I packed it.
He took the bags from me, and we headed out, holding hands. Being together was nice, but I still needed to confess that his love wasn’t one-sided. Once we made it to the helicopter, he left our bags at the server’s station and joined me at our seats. The pilot locked the door and then went to the front.
As the engine roared, I patted the seat next to me. “The bench seat is pretty comfy.”
He squeezed my thigh. “We’ll have to hold off until we’re level.”
My pulse grew faster. He wanted more of me. It was time I showed him how I felt. I traced his chest and whispered, “I don’t know if I can keep my hands off you that long.”
He turned and stared into my eyes. I saw myself reflected in his brown eyes and was jumpy and aware of his nearness as he said, “Maddie, let’s go slow.”
The panic that gripped me was because my lips ached to both kiss him and confess. I nodded. “As long as you let me… have you.”
He cupped my face as he said, “Azizam,you already have my heart.”
My throat grew less constricted as I asked, “What doesazizammean?”
He kissed my fingers. “Dear, dearest.”
My fears were dissipating. “I like it. It makes it easy to tell you…”
This was it. I loved him. Yet the words refused to come out.
He blinked. “What?”
