Page 71 of Inevitable
His emotions ran deep. He was just better at hiding them than everyone else.
I stroked the back of his neck. “I’ll never ask you to do that,” I reassured him.
I’d never wanted him to do that the first time, but I’d been too damn afraid of breaking the agreement we’d made to ask for something more.
Some weird twist of fate had thrown the two of us together again, and I wasn’t about to toss this opportunity aside.
I didn’t know what our future looked like, but I knew that I’d missed Colin so much that I ached for him.
I needed to be as close to him as I could possibly get.
Yes, that need was sexual, but it was also highly emotional for me now.
“Good,” he said in a husky, relieved tone. “Because I’m about to explore the sexy, curvy body you complain about all the time.”
Heat pooled between my thighs and I let out a needy sigh as he stroked a hand down my body until he got to the hem of the nightgown that was tangled around my thighs.
Colin shifted so he could pull the nightgown up to my waist and over my head.
I sat up, trying not to think about how much my body had changed over the years.
I shivered as his fingers skimmed over my bare skin.
I was self-conscious about my curvy body and the faded stretch marks on my belly, but it had been so long since Colin had touched me like this that part of me really didn’t care.
“Could you turn the light off?” I asked hesitantly.
“No,” he said flatly. “You’re still the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. I want to be able to see you.”
I laid my head back on the pillow with a snort as his hands started to explore my body. “Which part do you find attractive?” I asked jokingly. “My plumpness or the stretch marks on my belly?”
He traced a finger over the faded marks on my abdomen. “You carried my child, Emma,” he said huskily like that fact was a miracle to him. “If you think that’s not sexy, you’re wrong. And I happen to like your curvy body.”
“You’re insane,” I accused. “Nobody thinks that stretch marks are hot.”
“I do,” he said earnestly as his body covered mine. “There’s not a damn thing about you that isn’t sexy.”
I wrapped my arms around his neck as my body relaxed and melted against his harder form.
He wasn’t lying.
I could feel his hard cock pressing against me, and every negative thought I’d had about my changed body slipped out of my brain.
I suddenly realized that my insecurities about my body were old baggage. My ex had hated it when I was curvier, and he’d always told me that it was a complete turnoff.
Somehow, that trash had burrowed its way into my brain so deeply that it was in my subconscious, and it was time for that to go.
I thought I’d expelled every negative thought from my head regarding my ex a long time ago, but there was obviously one more that needed to get tossed out of my psyche.
Colin wasn’t my ex, and he obviously did like my curvy body, stretch marks included.
“Colin,” I said in a needy whisper as I closed my eyes. “I need…”
My desire for this man was endless and my entire body was aching with the desperation to feel him inside of me.
“I’ll take care of all of your needs,” he told me as his mouth skimmed my jawline. “But I’m not rushing this, Emma.”
I moaned against his lips as his mouth came down hard to claim mine.
