Chapter 73

The tears well up inside, afraid that he won’t take this further, and I need him to. I need to feel like I can be everything I should be in a normal relationship, to be a normal woman. That I can be to him what he deserves, he needs… despite his reassurance that he doesn’t. I want to show him how much I love and trust him, and I need to do it where words fail me.

Arrick slides his arms around my waist and kisses me on the neck. Pulling me against him so I can feel his body against every inch of mine. That delicious sensation of our naked bodies completely engaged and only fuels my longing for more from him.

“Does it feel like I don’t want to try?” He smiles against my shoulder, and I must admit there’s a hard wedge up my back, nestled above my butt in a pretty obvious way. I giggle, both nervous suddenly, and because it is unexpected, the humor in something so serious as this.

Arrick turns me slowly to him, moving back a little and putting space between us, yet mov