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He lowers his head and kisses me between my thighs. “I promise I won’t.”

Every part of my body hums like an instrument he’s long mastered, shuddering at a touch my body has never forgotten. His mouth, his tongue, his fingers leave me trembling with an ache only he can fill.

I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing, but it doesn’t feel wrong either. Instead, I’ve never felt so safe.

“I want to feel you inside me,” I whisper as he covers my body with his and kisses me, my hands moving down his pants to pull them off his hips. I taste myself on his tongue and feel his desire matching my own. I don’t care if we’re rushing things. We may have made mistakes, but I’ve waited ten years for this moment, and I’m not waiting one more second for what’s to come.

The ripping of a wrapper, a brief wait as he rolls the condom over his cock, and then the pressure against my opening. It’s rushed, but I don’t care. We’ll have all the time after this, and even if we don’t, even if we don’t work out, I want this moment just as much as Todd does.

I’m nearly overcome with emotion when he pushes his cock into me, inch by delicious inch until he’s buried to the hilt. He takes his time, watching me as he fills me again and again. It’s a reunion I never saw coming, not in a million years, not after I made that awful choice ten years ago.

But this is now. And it’s beautiful. The passion, the heat, the ache that only he can fill.

“I love you,” he murmurs, three words that make my heart soar, unleashing an orgasm that leaves me trembling in his arms as wave upon wave claim me, breaking every wall I’ve long erected to keep the world at bay while I kept telling myself I needed the solitude to find myself.

But I forgot one thing, the gift of allowing myself to be completely vulnerable with the man I always loved, the same man who never stopped loving me. When Todd’s release comes, he laces his fingers with mine as he buries his face in my neck, my name on his lips.

An hour later, he wakes to find me watching him as he sleeps. Pulling me closer, Todd kisses my forehead. “Penny for your thoughts.”

I shouldn’t say it, but I need to know. “You said you loved me.”

“I did.”

I frown. “So it’s true? Even after all these years?”

“Yes.”

When I don’t say anything, he touches the tip of my nose with his finger. “You should get some rest. You’ve got a big day tomorrow.”

As Todd pulls me closer, I inhale his scent, memorizing it. “I wish I didn’t have to wait this too long to figure things out.”

Or until I had no choice but to walk away. And I can’t do that anymore.

“But you’re here with me now,” he murmurs, pressing a kiss on my forehead as I close my eyes. “From this moment on, we have all the time in the world to figure things out.”

ChapterSix

TODD

Devyn is strumming her guitar when I wake up. She’s in the living room but I can see her through the open door, sunlight from the windows casting her body in a dreamy silhouette. Her auburn hair falls over her bare shoulders, and her eyes are closed in concentration as she plays.

I can hear her soft voice singing along to the chords she’s playing, melodies rolling off her tongue like honey. It brings back everything I love about her.

I was lost, I was broken

Didn’t know which way to go

But I found myself again

the moment I let go.

Until I found my voice,

I found my soul

a love that makes me whole

for with you, I’ve come home.

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