Page 47 of If The Fates Allow
The muscles in his stomach shivered as the shouts crossing his lips turned to moans. “Are you my woman?”
“Yes,” she cried, losing herself yet again to him. She understood what to expect this time and relaxed, welcoming the annihilation with fevered excitement. “I’m yours.”
“Are you going to be my wife?”
The question catapulted them both over the edge, and Noah spilled into her, his cock pulsing and bringing her own end exploding forth. She gave her reply in the middle of it, forever fusing their lives together.
“No one will ever take you from me.” He collapsed on top of her when it was over, kissing her leisurely as he made promises she knew he would keep until their dying days. “You are forever mine, Willa.”
They lay in the dark, facing each other, hands and lips exploring. Sweat cooled their skin, creating a comfortable enough temperature for them to lie naked atop the blankets.
“Men shouldn’t be so beautiful.” She traced the etched muscles of his chest with her fingertips. “But you are.”
Nibbling on her neck, he palmed a breast. “Do I need to take you back over to the mirror?” he asked. “Bend you over in front of it and have you from behind just so you can watch how beautifulyouare.” He sunk his teeth into her flesh. “Especially when taking my cock.”
Take her from behind? She shivered at the thought. “Such language, Dr. Anderson.”
Leaving a trail of kisses down to her breasts, he swirled his tongue over a nipple, teasing it into a peak. “You like hearing me say cock.”
“I like you using it, too.”
Dropping a delicate kiss on one breast before moving to another, Noah continued to learn her body. His hands hadn’t stopped moving since they finished, as if he were memorizing every line and curve with his touch.
Willa giggled when his teeth scraped a ticklish spot. This couldn’t be real. This moment was like a dream she’d dreamt a thousand times. A fantasy she’d concocted in her head to get through the days of being so lonely.
“When you saytake me from behind, do you mean like an animal?”
He planted a kiss on her stomach before looking up and casually rubbing his stubbled chin against her skin. “With a little more skill, I hope, but yes, it’s the same concept.”
A thought took over, and she couldn’t stop it from coming out of her mouth. She had already asked, but… “Have you done what we just did with many women?”
Noah worked his way back up her body, settling on top of her so they could be face to face. “A few, but I cannot say it was anything like what we just did.”
She didn’t want to know. Really. “How so?”
“Before you, it was only to fulfill a need.”
“And after me?”
“There is only you.” He kissed her, their tongues seeking to match each stroke of the others with perfect synchronicity. “There will only be you.”
Holding him close as they took their time enjoying the moment, she listened as he told her of his plans. They would go to Ohio first and see if she handled the change.
“And you’ll get to see snow for the first time.”
“I beg your pardon.” She faked outrage, batting her lashes at him. “I’ve seen snow before, and we even went down to the beach to watch it mix with the powder sand.”
He grinned, that boyishness coming over him again. “That sounds strange but oddly beautiful.”
They continued to discuss their future, talking about his parents and how they would hopefully be able to visit them in the spring.
“My parents are going to love you, Willa.”
“Why can’t we go meet them first?” she asked. “Why do you want to go to Ohio when they live in Indiana?”
“A man named Edward Parsons is a doctor in Ohio. I worked under him and have been writing to him about your case,” he told her. “He once treated an entire family of asthmatics quite successfully. All twenty-something of them have gone on to live fully under his care.”
A full life.
