Page 28 of I Love You Again
Her eyes widened at thecomment.
"You think I look beautiful?" She held hisgaze.
"Yeah, so you shouldn't worry about your hair." He couldn't resist. Brad reached out and took hold of a lock of it. It felt as silky as it looked, and just like he remembered. He watched in fascination as the ends curled around hisfinger.
"I had a really good time today," she said softly. He continued to stare at the lock of hair in an attempt to restrain his desire forher.
"Metoo."
"I almost forgot that we weren't actually here on vacation, and... that we aren't a couple anymore," she stated surprisinghim.
He looked up to meet her penetrative stare. Her eyes bathed him in admiration, shimmering with that sparkle she used to have in the past. The fringe of her lashed cast shadows on her cheeks and a soft and loving curve touched her lips as she continued to regardhim.
He should walk away, go upstairs and into his room. That was what he was supposed to do. But he couldn't. Brad was too eager to hear her thoughts. He wanted to hear what she had to say, and know what she was thinking. Could it be possible that he was wrong in thinking she wasn't overhim?
Did she feel the way hedid?
"I almost forgot too," heagreed.
The sparkle within her beautiful eyes became brighter and her cheeks flushed. "That's strange, right? You'd think that's something we'd remember. We haven’t been together inyears."
“Years.” He said more to himself than toher.
“I waseighteen.”
“And I wastwenty.”
“Now, we’re in our thirties, all … um grown up. You’re…” her voice trailedoff.
“I’mwhat?”
“Really, reallyhot.”
“And so are you.” He released the curl and reached out to touch her cheek. The sudden contact with her skin was almost unbearable. It sent a warm shiver through him. She felt the same and looked the same, and Brad felt the weight of his feelings for her pull heavily on hisheart.
He couldn't talk. All he saw were her lips and her. His Trina, the best thing that had ever happened tohim.
It was useless to resist that force of desire that overtook his body and infiltrated hismind.
She opened her mouth to say something else but he stoppedher.
Brad lowered to her lips, smoothing his over hers, caressing her mouth more than kissing it. Then he immersed himself in the desire that engulfed him and took complete control. Her lips molded to his, welcoming him and the light press of her hands on his chest urged him to continue. She rested against him and brushed her delicious tongue against his as their mouths opened to intensify thekiss.
Desire pulled at his groin with a desperate need for this woman he wasn't supposed tohave.
And all reasons why he couldn’t have her evaporated from hismind.
* * *
Trina feltas if she’d been given a dose of new life from the moment Brad’s lips touched hers, her body tingled from it. As if it had been injected into her soul. Her empty soul that had been void since the day Bradleft.
What was crazy was she didn’t realize just how hollow she was inside until just now, and as he kissed her, her whole essence absorbed him wanting him with an achingneed.
It became more apparent when he stepped away from her breaking the kiss and the power that captured them within itsgrasp.
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that. I…” Brad’s voice faltered as he looked ather.
She didn’t want him to apologize, not when his kiss was something she desperately wanted andneeded.
