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Knowing that I’m going to get yelled at, I climbed into bed with her. She needed me to hold her. I needed to hold her. I put my arm around her and rested my hands on her neck.

“I love you, baby.”

She kissed my neck softly.

I moaned lightly.

Whispering in my ear, she said, “I love you so much. I missed you while you were gone.”

I lowered my lips to hers. It was a slow, passionate kiss, feeling her lips on mine, tasting her tongue. She reached over and touched my cock. Oh my God, and then she giggled, “I thought so.”

“Are you trying to torture me, baby?”

“No, why would you say that?”

“Whispering in my ear, touching me.”

“I didn’t know whispering in your ear had an effect on you.”

“Everything you do has an effect on me. However, we need to talk, Stella.”

“Okay.”

She looks nervous.

“Is this what you want, Stella? Because if it’s not. Look, I just want you to be happy. If it’s not with me, I just want you to be happy.” I feel sick waiting for a response. It seems to take the longest time. “Please say something, Stella. The silence is deafening.”

“I love you, Jamie. I get scared. You’re my first relationship. I don’t know how to do this. Of course, I want to be with you. How could I not?”

“Then you have to stay and fight, Stella. Stop running. I can’t handle it. I can handle anything, but not that. Stay and fight with me, baby.”

“Okay.”

“You mean it?”

“I can’t be without you either, Jamie. I don’t want to go back to a world without you in it. When you went to California, I thought I might die. The pain was unreal. I had never felt pain like that.”

“Let’s move to Las Vegas.”

“No.”

“Why? Baby, I can’t go back to California. I have to be with you.”

“Let’s look for a house near Lake Las Vegas. I don’t want to liveinVegas.”

“So you’ll stay? Forever and always.”

“Forever and always,” I said.

Twenty Two

CHAPTER 22

STELLA

Forever and always. He is my forever. I just hope I get through this medical nightmare so that we can be together. I’ve never seen him look the way he did when he thought I was going to die. He looked so broken. I never want him to look or feel that way again. He’s asleep beside me. I know he’s exhausted.

I look up as I see the doctor come in.

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