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Nico walks toshort of contact between our bodies, but just short We’re standing so close I have to tilt my neck back and look up at him to keep our eyes locked, but I don’t dare move for fear that one of us will blink and thehands and softly brushes entle Slowly, he lowers his head down toto kiss me, his face is so close to mine that I can feel his breath on my lips, but he doesn’t He stops so we don’t have to lose the contact of our locked eyes And then everything I felt shift is confires

"I love you, Elle"

I don’t have to think aboutin my life I’ve been surer about "I love you, too"

Then he kisses me Sweetly Gently Passionately Really kisses mein a way that I’ve never been kissed before It’s not a prelude to sex or foreplay It’s love Pure and si in a kiss And in that moht I’d been, but I wasn’t There was absolutely nothing before this kiss, and I can’t wait to see what co onto his shoulders in order to keep upright Without his arhtly around me, I would be a puddle on the floor My knees are weak andand then there’s the tears The tears have welled up inwhen he looks at me that way I’d heard people say they cried tears of happiness before, but I’d never given the ter Strea from my eyes as I smile up at the man that I’m madly in love with And he with me

He smiles back down atand crying"

"I know…I think fifteen years of holding back ot the best ofhow ridiculous itfor fifteen years, really, and now I’m overwhelmed with emotions I hadn’t even realized I was capable of anymore

Nico smiles before he reaches down and lifts ainst his chest I wrapthe woman I love to bed to make love to her"

"Oh" His words are likeI wake to a faently up and down my spine I turn my head to face the man I’ve professed " I soofball smile, I feel satisfied and happy and completely and totally in love I can’t re Nico about ht off

Nico laughs atbefore it gets too hot" He pushespart of my face behind et used to this new agreeable woman that you’ve become" Nico lifts up and kissesup to this" He trails sweet gentle kisses up from the small of my back all the way to the nape of my neck

"Come on, before we don’t leave the bed all day" He abruptly stops kissingroan loudly, very unladylike, "Or we could just stay in bed all day?" I attempt to persuade him with an invitation

"Not a chance There’s a dozen places I want to have you here"

"Have ?

Nico pulls back the sheet, exposing my naked ass, as I still lie face down on the bed I’ve not yet roans and s to have you on the little island that’s in the center of the lake I can’t wait to see you spread eagle in the in to sit up and I watch as Nico’s light green eyes turn stor when he wants me and I love it It’s raw and real and he doesn’t try toit’s not Nico drinks me in and then takes a deep breath before his eyes return to mine "And maybe even bent over the captains chair before we leave the dock if you don’t hurry"

I expected the lake to be pretty, but nothing I could have iined comes close to what I see when ht before s lass where the darkness hindered ht before, and wraps his thick arht?"

"It’s stunning It doesn’t even look real It’s all too perfect" I truly am in awe It’s not that I don’t stop to appreciate nature, but the times that I do have become few and far between the last few years as I’ve thrown lad you like it" Nico squeezes me a little closer as he speaks

"How could anyone not like it?" The trees are in bloo lake is lined with tall purple and orange wildflowers I wonder for a moment if they were planted, but then I think better of it and realize that nothing hs, it’s a sound of contentment Happiness I know because I feel the exact same way "Do you come up here often?"

"I used to"