“I want to stay,” she admitted in a voice softened by sadness. “But I need more than lust or gratitude. I need you to love me.”
Gavin closed his eyes, and Cora’s stomach sank. This is why she left the hospital before he woke, why she hadn’t taken his calls.
Você não é nada para mim.
She might have hoped for more, she might have even deluded herself into believing that he must have felt something for her, but deep down she’d known. She was nothing to him.
“I can’t love you like I loved her because I loved her for entirely different reasons.” He opened his eyes and cupped her face in his hands. “Just like I would never have loved her like I love you.”
Cora’s breath hitched, and she wondered if she’d misheard him.
“I love you, Cora,” he repeated and then proceeded to cover her mouth with his in a tender kiss.
Elation blossomed within her, and she slid her hands around his back, clutching at the hard muscles. Propelled by an urgent passion, she arched her body into his. Her lips opened at the press of his tongue.
Gavin’s hands slipped dawn and gripped the back of her thighs, lifting until she could wrap her legs around his waist. She held on as he walked them to the bedroom and then fell backward on the bed.
Loosening her legs, she sat up, straddling him and tugged her shirt over her head.
“You’re so fucking beautiful.” Gavin’s fingers delved into the cups of her lace bra to find her nipples.
Rocking against him, she threw her head back and moaned.
“Tell me what you want,” he said.
“I want you to fuck me.”
“No.” He rolled her over, propping himself up on his elbows, and her eyes flew to his. “No fucking, no sex. Tell me what you want.”
“I want you to love me.”
“I do. I will. Você é minha vida,” he said, kissing a path from her neck down to her navel then looked up at her through hooded eyes. “You are my life.”
He nipped at the quivering flesh of her belly before tracing a swirling pattern with his tongue back up to the sensitive spot below her.
“Stay,” he said.
“Yes.”
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The End
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