The Doctor's Damsel in Distress

Another wave of tears struck. Tears of happiness. Tears of disbelief. Tears of the emotional roller-coaster ride of the past few weeks.

“Shh, it’s okay,” he said soothingly, wiping away her tears with gentle brushes of his fingertips. “I don’t expect you to feel the same. Not after the past few weeks, but I’m going to make that up to you, Madison. Spend the rest of my life proving to you that I won’t run from my feelings, that I’m not like my father, but instead a man worthy of you.”

Part of her just couldn’t believe that the man of her dreams could possibly feel the same way she did. Dreams didn’t come true for normal, average, everyday girls like her, did they?

“I’d hoped that through our child you’d come to love me.” He continued to caress her face, to smile gently at her.

“I already do.”

His hands stilled, trembled slightly against her. His eyes widened. His lips parted. He appeared as stunned as she’d felt when he’d said he loved her.

“You love me?” The tremble in his voice matched the worsening wobble of his hands and she saw the truth in his eyes.

He loved her. Wow. He really loved her and didn’t seem to think it was possible she felt

the same about him. Who’d have thought it?

“With all my heart and soul, Levi.” Joy filled that heart and soul. From top to bottom she overflowed with joy. With love. With Levi. “I think I have from the moment I first saw you.”

“Oh, Madison.” Then his mouth covered hers, kissed her so thoroughly, so passionately, so reverently, Madison’s heart swelled with the depth of his love.

She could feel his love in his kiss.

In every worshipful, possessive caress of his lips against hers.

Levi loved her.

“Say the words.” His request almost sounded like begging, as if he’d do anything to hear her say she loved him.

He didn’t have to do a thing other than just be himself.

“I love you, Levi. Always.”

He smiled the smile she loved. The slightly crooked one with his eyes lit with a touch of mischief. “Always?”

Not a bit surprised at how he’d gone from uncertain back to his cocky, self-assured, normal self, she didn’t hold back. Didn’t even make him work for her answer.

“Always.”

His grin widened and he reached for her. “Then you won’t mind if I carry you to my bed and make love to you?”

Um, no, she wouldn’t mind that at all.

In fact, she’d quite enjoy it.

She placed her hand in his, reveled in him lifting her into his arms and carrying her out of the bathroom and into his bedroom.

She did enjoy.

Every touch of his hands, his body, his mouth.

Every caress, every stroke, every moan of pleasure.

Always.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“SO, I HEAR my doctor is going to be out of town next week because of you.”