Page 144 of Blossoms of the Heart
“Phoebe, what’s the matter?” I hoped I hadn’t upset her.
“Nothing.” She looked up and held my gaze.
“Something’s wrong. Something’s been wrong for weeks. What is it?”
She shook her head and I didn’t know if that meant she was still saying nothing was wrong, or if she couldn’t say what was wrong.
“Phoebe –” she stopped me with a kiss, and God there was no way that I could back out to continue with my much needed quest to find out what was wrong with my girl.
“Make love to me, Tai.” She breathed against my lips.
Make love.
My eyes never left hers. Not once. I was too afraid to look away in case this was some dream.
Make love.
Yes, I could because I loved her.
I loved her so much that love consumed me, and this was the closest thing I’d had to her in weeks.
“With pleasure.” I lowered to kiss her again and the minute my lips touched hers heat rushed over my entire body, spreading from my lips then right over me.
It reached into my soul, beckoning that need for her.
Make love.
I would with everything in me and all that I felt.
* * *
Phoebe
* * *
I secured my arms around Tai as he picked me up.
He took me up the stairs to our bedroom.
Ours.No not our bedroom, it was his.
I’d just overstayed my time so long that I thought his things were mine.
Just like how he thought I was his.
And here I was being unfair to him all over again.
Asking him to make love to me, to give me something I needed, when all the while I had this cloud over my mind and body that would eventually destroy us.
I didn’t want it to, and I couldn’t end us. Not when I loved him so much.
Not when all I wanted was to be with him.
The gentle breeze blew the curtains out either side from the long, glass windows and moonlight spilled into the room. It created that dreamlike feel I always felt with him, but more so today. Tonight.
It lured me to indulge on the godlike, beautiful man who carried me in his arms as if I were weightless. Tonight, he held me like I was a part of him. like I really was treasure to him.
No one had ever made me feel that. No one.
