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She shook her wrists loose and wrapped her arms around my neck. “Then just make love to me, Colin,” she said insistently. “Let’s not think about the future right now. Just be with me.”
My dick ached and my gut twisted at the need I could see in her gorgeous eyes as I scanned her face.
I closed my eyes.
Miraculously, Emmastillwanted me.
I could see it.
I couldfeelit.
I could hear the need in her voice.
Forme.
She hadn’t been with or wanted another man since the two of us had been together in Virginia Beach.
I fought for the control that should be easier at my age, but I knew that knowledge was about to break me in a way that nothing ever had before.
Chapter 21
Emma
Icould tell that Colin was fighting with himself.
That was the last thing I wanted.
I was a mature adult, and I knew exactly what I wanted.
Maybe he was afraid to make promises that he couldn’t keep in the future, so I wanted to reassure him that I wasn’t asking him for anything he didn’t want to give.
“I just want to be with you, Colin,” I assured him. “I’m not asking for a future.”
There was never going to be another man for me.
Colin had always been the man for me, and I was tired of making excuses for not reaching out and taking what I wanted. Even if it was only for a little while.
He opened his eyes and skewered me with the intensity in his stormy gaze.
“What if I want there to be a future for us?” he asked in a rough tone.
He’d phrased it as a question, so I was assuming that he wasn’t quite sure what he wanted, but that it could be a future together.
My heart skipped a beat, but I didn’t flinch as I stared right back at him.
God, I wanted that.
Iwanteda future with Colin so much that my heart achedwith that longing.
“If this is going to happen, don’t ask me to just walk away,” he said hoarsely. “I don’t think I’m capable of doing that again, Em.”
The vulnerability in his voice made my heart squeeze so tightly it was painful.
Colin was a man who never let anyone see his vulnerabilities, but I knew they existed.
Most people probably thought he was an impenetrable, emotionless fortress that could never be breached.
I knew that wasn’t true.
