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No questions

No judgies

Our lives were far fro still as the world turned beneath our feet roan of my name, and moments later, I followed him down in a crash of ecstasy

"Jesus," he breathed, peppering kisses over , I raked my nails up and down his back His skin pebbled and he squirmed as I teased at his sides

"Ya know…I only pro a desk"

"Excellent call We can throw this baby in the Tahoe and put it with the couch from my office I can see it now The bonus room could become a shrine for all the places we’ve had sex"

"That wouldn’t be aard at all," I teased

"I have it on good authority that you like aard," heout ofdiscussion, I’d finally given in and agreed to move in with Porter It really did make sense I was still terrified, but it had been next to impossible to tell hi in the air between us Since I had until the end of the month to be out, we’d decided to slowly move my stuff into Porter’s house But, a few days later, I’d learned that the word slow had a vastly differentto him One afternoon, after I’d come hos up to start the iven Porter my keys and asked him to pick theh my front door to find a herd of professional ht--okay, fine I’d fought Porter had just sether for over a week and not once had we slept under the same roof One of us was always up at the hospital--usually me so Porter could stay at ho, but none of thatas we had each other

The office was e cleaned up It was funny--I’d spent so rowing that place into the thriving pul to h those doors again, I’d be doing it as a different person

The broken, lost-in-the-darkness version of Charlotte Mills was gone And I couldn’t have been happier about the future without her

Pushingatat his phone

He didn’t look up as he said, "Six ame I knew he’d made up that day at the hospital to distract s just tomy hips, I sauntered over to him "Six minutes from noe’ll be in the car, on the way back to our house to drop this stuff off" I ducked under his ar my arms around his waist

He finally looked up froh the air had becoht, and his jaas clenched But his eyes--God, I will never forget his eyes--were filled with light

"Porter?" I whispered

"Six hours fro in the recovery roo on a monitor" His voice broke and his shoulders shook, but it was a loud and joyous laugh that sprang fronited inside me as the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end "What?" I breathed

He sery now We need to get up to the hospital"

My face crurew on my lips "Seriously?" I asked in disbelief that it was finally happening, and hopefully for real this time

Porter’s eyes filled with more love than I had known existed in the world only a few months earlier And then he dipped low, and with one touch of his lips, he transferred it all to me

"Seriously, sweetheart"

We were alone in the darkness

The place where it had all started