Chapter 99. A Night of Ecstasy (1)

RENEE

I couldn't sleep. Or, at the very least, I tried not to. 

Not with Robert—this handsome hunk of a man—next to me in bed. 

Besides, I was scared that if I closed my eyes, he'd vanish, and everything that had transpired tonight would be a figment of my imagination. I didn't want that, so I kept my eyes open.

With slumber seemingly far away from me and my gaze fixed on the ceiling, the memories of earlier came flooding back with bittersweet intensity.

A faint smile emerged on my lips as I remembered Robert's look when he’d seen me for the first time tonight. 

After giving him my heartfelt apologies, and we’d finally reconciled, Robert had taken me to the bed where he'd made love to me over and over again until I was a trembling mess and the multiple orgasms left me dazed, exhausted, and sore. 

Amidst our romantic interludes, he’d brought the dinner I prepared to the bed, and we both ate the lavish feast. I