“You’re doing it again,” I murmured against her lips.
“What?” she asked.
“Bewitching me.”
“April said I was going to start feeling horny soon. She was right.”
I laughed. “What?”
“Pregnancy hormones, I guess. Right now, I think it’s just regular hormones that are going wild around you. It’s always been like that.” She gripped my shirt and looked up at me with her beautiful green eyes. I hoped our child had those eyes. “The best part of my day, every day, was when you walked in for your cupcake and coffee.”
/> My heart did a dance in my chest. “I’m sorry it took me so long to realize I was in love with you. Because I have been for some time.”
She nodded. “Me too.” She looked down for a moment and when she looked up, her expression was remorseful. “I’m sorry I didn’t try harder to tell you about the baby. I really did worry about you, but if I’m going to be honest, I think I was jealous of Lora. Not that I wouldn’t have told you out of spite. I was going to. I just—”
I gave her a quick kiss as it sounded like she was babbling out of concern that I was going to be upset by her confession. “Lora and I were never something that would happen again. And I forgive you. I hope you’ll forgive me for being such a jerk.”
“You’re not a jerk Cy. You’re the best man that I know.”
I felt like I was a million feet tall. “And you’re the most radiant, sweet woman I’ve ever met. You’ve lit me up in places that had gone completely dark.”
She smiled like I’d given her a gift. “Can we have make-up sex now, because I really need you to touch me, Cy.”
I laughed. “If you insist.” I scooped her up and carried her to her bedroom. “By the way, this dress is gorgeous on you.”
“It’s not like the witch dress,” she said as I set her down and undid the zipper.
“The witch dress short circuited my brain. So much so, I forgot the condom. I feel like I should apologize for that, but I can’t. The idea of making a child, of it growing in you,” I pressed my hand on her belly. “It fills me with awe.”
She smiled. “Me too.”
After that, we spoke through touch and sighs and love. I tugged the sleeves of her dress down, dropping to my knees and kissing her belly where our child grew.
When she was naked, I lay her on the bed and looked down on her, admiring her soft, warm creamy skin. Her red hair fanned out over the pillow. Her green eyes filled with love and desire. I was the luckiest man in the world.
I stripped my clothes off and lay over her. “I’m not using a condom now.”
She laughed as she ran her fingers through my hair. “It doesn’t matter now.”
I kissed her, taking my time with it. I planned to spend all night reacquainting myself with her body. Touching and kissing her, giving her all the pleasure that she deserved.
Petal, on the other hand, was more impatient. “I need you in me, Cy.” She gasped. My goal in life now was to ensure her happiness, so I settled my hips between her thighs. My dick was as eager as she was, but I hoped I could keep him under control just a little longer.
I slid inside her slow and controlled. She was right, we needed to be joined, because as I became one with her, it was like the final piece of my heart healed. I was now whole.
38
Petal
I was terrified that I was dreaming. I had to remind myself that my dreams had never been this vivid, this lovely, this perfect. I held on to Cy, touching him everywhere to reassure myself that he was really here.
He loved me. Oh my God, he loved me. Never before had three words made my heart feel so full. Until the moment he slid inside me, there was a niggle of fear that this wasn’t real. But now he was inside me, a part of me, and I finally felt like everything was going to be okay. No, not just okay, but perfect.
I wrapped my legs around him, holding him inside me. “I love you, Cy.”
He groaned, slipping his arm underneath me and holding me as his lips trailed kisses along my neck to my ear. “I love you too Petal. I wanted to say it first and you took that from me,” he lightly bit my ear lobe.
I gasped as a zap of electricity sizzled along my skin. “Sorry. How can I make it up to you?”