“Then what is it? I know something’s wrong.”
“I…” She looks into my eyes and swallows. “Tomorrow. It can wait until tomorrow. I need you tonight, Reed.Please.”
The turmoil is in her eyes again and my heart feels like someone is carving into it as I clench my teeth so hard, I’m surprised they don’t crack.
“Reed?” she says again, stroking the back of my neck. “I’m okay. I promise. I’m just tired and emotional.” Her eyes flick between mine. “And more than anything, I want to just be together. You and me. And not think of anything else. Can we do that? Please?”
“Will it make you happy?”
Her lips drop open as if she’s about to speak, then she closes her mouth again and nods.
“Then I will make love to you until dawn breaks, Angel. Longer if you want me to.”
She lifts her head, placing her forehead against mine.
“Thank you.”
“Don’t thank me. I would do anything for you.”
Her eyes flash with something, but she blinks it away quickly and drops her head back down, granting me access to the fluttering pulse point in her neck. I kiss and suck it, savoring every moan and whimper that leaves her lips as I start to move inside her again.
And I make love to her all night long.
Just like she wants.
A part of me wishes that for the first day in the history of creation, dawn doesn’t come.
Anything to stay here with her.
Even an apocalypse.
Because something tells me that once the sun comes up, everything is going to change.
Chapter twenty-six
Harley
Reedmurmursagainstmylips, and I kiss him again. Just like I’ve kissed him every other time that I’ve been afraid he’s about to say something I can never unhear. Something that will make this morning and what I must tell him even harder.
“Harley, I…”
“Ssh.” I press a finger to his lips and replace it with my lips again. “I love kissing you too much.”
“Harls… I need to piss,” he groans with a chuckle, and I finally let him go, admiring his muscular ass as he walks into the ensuite.
We barely slept a wink. We spent the night tangled up in each other. Our bodies joined more often than they were apart. A mess of limbs, mouths, slick arousal, and orgasms.Lots of orgasms.
My muscles protest as I stretch. I ache. A delicious ache. But one tinged with heartbreak. The ache will fade, but some weird part of me is glad that I will still be feeling Reed days from now.
Not that I could ever forget.
But our time is almost up. Every love song comes to an end. Even the ones sweetest to the ears.
I don’t think I will ever be ready for today. Maybe I should have said what I needed to last night. But I couldn’t. I just needed one more night with him. I knew the second I walked through the door and saw him last night that I couldn’t do it then. My feet ran to him before my brain could even process how selfish I was being by prolonging the inevitable. But I couldn’t stop myself.
I want him like the desert wants the rain.
The few months we’ve had together have been a blessing. Even though it hurts, and I know it will only get worse today, not better, at least I canfeel. At least I’ve known what it’s like to feel like this. To find that person.