It's been too long since I've been inside her, too long since I heard the needy little sounds she makes when she's desperate for me to fuck her hard and thorough, too damn long since I felt her greedy little channel clenching around me when she's coming undone with my name on her lips.

"Junie," I warn her, catching her lips in a kiss to steal her next moan, "I won't last if you keep making those noises, sweetie."

"Fuck me and make me come, Cane." She slips her tongue out to draw over my upper lip but doesn't kiss me. "Fill me up and make me yours all over again. I need it, baby, I need you."

She does it on purpose, just like she always did, and I fucking love her for it.

Drawing back, I slip my hand between us and tease her clit.

Another time, we'll make love slow and easy; I'll roll her over and watch her ride me with those pretty tits of hers bouncing up and down on her chest for me; I'll bend her over the edge of the bed and take her from behind while she says all those filthy words while she watches me over her shoulder just because she knows I could never hold out when she did that.

We're going to have a lot of chances to make up for lost time, but right now I need to make sure Junie gives me another one of her delicious orgasms before I lose control altogether.

It doesn't take long. Just the lightest brush over her swollen little bud and she's arching her back and crying out for me while her tight little pussy squeezes my dick so hard I can't move.

I'm lost to her climax. Helpless to resist when I feel her muscles milking me for my cum.

Holding on to Junie so tight I'm sure to find bruises on her in the morning, I slam home one more time and release everything I've got deep inside her womb. Filling her to overflowing, branding her with my DNA, and praying we'll be starting a new life tonight that we'll get to bring into the world together this time.

"I love you, June-bug."

They're the only words I can think of and the first thing out of my mouth as soon as I can speak again.

It doesn't even occur to me that we're moving fast, in my mind, we're just picking up where we left off. Five years got taken from us and I want them back, but the best I can do is make sure we don't waste another second that we're given.

Pulling my woman into my arms, I cradle her close and tell her again.

"I love you, Junie. Don't leave. Never leave again, no matter what, and I promise we'll figure it out."

"I love you too," Junie says, snuggling against my chest and letting me hold her. "I know we'll figure it out, Cane."

But she doesn't relax and drift off to sleep like I want her to.

"Where are you going?"

When she wriggles out of my grasp and crawls out of bed, I realize she's not just heading for the master bath. She's picking her clothes up off the floor and getting dressed.

It has my heart clenching, my hands itching to pull her back into bed with me. Didn't she just tell me she loved me too? After everything today dumped on us, that we'd figure it out together?

"Donner expects me to sleep in the guest room. I need to be there when he wakes up."

Junie crawls onto the bed and leans in to kiss me. Slow. Tender. Like she's telling me not to worry, she'll be here in the morning.

"How do you think we should--"

"Shh. We'll figure it out," she tells me again. Giving me a small smile and adding a soft kiss to my furrowed brow before slipping out of my bedroom and leaving my bed empty and my thoughts jumbled.

7

JUNE

"Mom, I'm hungry."

"Give me five more minutes." I beg, trying to keep a straight face as Donner's tiny fingers pry my eyes open.

It's a game we've played for a long time. He's always been a morning person, like his father.

"I already gave you five minutes before I woke you up."