Page 124 of Love Me Fearless

“Even when I’m not brave?”

I glance up. Does she know that I love the vulnerable parts of her best of all? “I want you to share those moments with me, so I can show you how much I love them, too.”

That edge of yearning fills her eyes again. “What about when I make mistakes?”

“I love that part too.” I urge her thighs apart and give her a slow, firm caress with my tongue. “There’s no part of you I’m not crazy about.”

She releases a shuddering sigh. “I told myself I could live without you. That I would be okay when you left. But I don’t want to ever have to.”

I savor another caress, my hunger like an urgent ache inside me. “The only way I can get on that plane is knowing you’re mine.”

“I’m yours,” she whispers.

My heart stretches inside my chest.Mine.

I stroke and tease, savoring her quickening breaths and the way her core draws tighter as she gives herself so beautifully to me. Her cries sharpen as she comes, rocking against me, her fingers tightin my hair.

“Please,” she whimpers, tremors rattling down her thighs as she catches her breath. “I need all of you. Now, please.”

I slip off my briefs and reach for a condom from her bedside drawer.

“No,” she says, her eyes tense with yearning. “All of you.”

I force a steadying exhale through my teeth. “You sure?”

“Yes.”

She’s on birth control and we’ve covered the safety topic already, but this is still a big step. I set the condom aside and press a soft kiss to her lips. “You trust me.”

“With my whole heart.” She cups the back of my neck and draws me closer.

I glide against her and gently thrust inside. She sucks in a breath.

I thrust again, her plush heat gripping me so tight. She rocks her hips to take me deeper. I reach back and urge her thigh around mine, the shift giving me that final inch.

“Fuck, you feel good.” I will myself to hold on so I can give her everything she deserves.

She arches her hips to meet my thrusts. “I love you.”

“I love you.” I swallow her whimper with a soft kiss, our bodies finding that sensual, slow rhythm that feeds all my cravings. Her body tightens around me and her breaths turn sharp. We move together, sharing something precious and beautiful, something rare. Something I never believed could happen to me.

Ava comes, her soft cries filling the quiet room. I ride the wave with her, savoring the way she’s so perfectly surrendered to her desires, then roll us over so I can kiss and caress her while she rocks against me. Only after she comes again do I give in to the ache burning deep inside me.

“Nice and slow, sweetheart, so I can feel everything.” I cradle her hips as little aftershocks rattle down her thighs.

She wraps her fingers around the back of my neck and kisses me. “Everything.”

I kiss her back as the heat smoldering inside me catches likewildfire. “That’s it,” I praise, breaking from her lips with a groan. My love for her and the desperate thirst for release twist tighter and tighter inside me until the knot whips free, unspooling the last shred of doubt and fear. In its place rushes pleasure and joy and so much love. It’s fragile and pure and beautiful. She wraps her arms around me and holds me tight, her chest heaving.

“I love you…I love you…” she whispers between breaths.

I hug her close, savoring everything I’m feeling. The perfect way her body fits with mine. Her warmth. The vanilla scent lingering on her skin. The promises we’ve shared. The tenderness in my heart.

I’m in love with my best friend, and she loves me back.

I carryAva’s coffee to her bedside. She’s fallen asleep again, her gorgeous face so peaceful. I’m not surprised, given how little I’ve let her rest these past two days. My heart warms so fast inside my chest it hurts, like my rib cage is suddenly too small. But I relish the ache. Because it drives the love I’m feeling for her deeper into my heart.

I didn’t know I could love her any more than I did yesterday, or the day before that, but I do. Is this what it means to fall head-over-heels in love? Every day, it gets bigger, stronger, more powerful? Because that’s exactly how it feels.

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