Sudden Devotion
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Mitch shook his head. “No. Honey, listen. I love you, more than I can ever tell you. But I can’t listen to it. I forgive you. I will eventually forget. I won’t lie to you. It’s going to be hard. But I will find a way to get past it. I know you would have never turned to him if it wasn’t for the pain you were in.”
Sara seemed surprised by his declaration. “You’d forgive me?”
“Yes. I can’t lose you.”
She raised a hand and ran her fingers through her hair. “Mitch, you don’t understand. I was hurt, yes. But, no, I need to tell you the whole truth. I did ask Patrick to make love to me.” She took his hands and forced him to look back at her. “Mitch. I couldn’t, though. When he tried to touch me, I froze up. It was then, in that moment, that I knew I had to find you. I came here with the intention of forgiving you. I needed to give you another chance, for you as well as for me.”
“You couldn’t? You mean you didn’t?” Mitch waited for her answer while the air stopped flowing to and from his lungs.
She shook her head. “I told myself I wanted to, that I needed to. That it would make the pain go away. But, after mere seconds, I realized I would only cause more pain. I didn’t want him to touch me. Not like you do. I knew in that moment, that if I ever let anyone else touch me, I would be hurting myself as much as you.”
She leaned in and kissed him lightly. “I belong to you. All of me, my heart, body, and soul. I love you.”
Mitch returned her kiss as though they hadn’t been together in years. “Thank God. Oh, honey. I would have forgiven you. I swear, I would have made myself understand. But the thought that he had touched you.”
“He didn’t. It’s just you and me.” She assured him.
She was in awe of him. When she had been at Patrick’s, she had realized that in spite of the pain, she couldn’t live without him. She had come home with the intention of forgiving him for sleeping with Claudia. And now, he sat here and did the same for her.
Mitch stood up and swept her up, carrying her to the bedroom kissing her the whole time. When he gently laid her on the bed and hovered over her, she felt wetness splash against her cheek. She gazed up at him and saw tears in his eyes.
“Mitch, what’s wrong?” She kissed him, hating seeing him so vulnerable.
“I thought I lost you. My heart stopped beating, and my blood stopped pumping. I could never have survived if you hadn’t come back.”
Sara caressed his stubbly chin and cheeks. “Mitch, from this moment on, I will always come back to you. No matter where we are, what has happened, or how old we are. I swear to you, I will always come back to you.”
Breathless with urgency now, Sara pleaded with him. “Mitch, please now. I need to feel you inside of me.”
He looked down at her as he stayed positioned right at her entrance. “I love you, Sara. I will love you all of my life. But the next time I make love with you, I need to do it with promises made.”
She was flush with her arousal. She looked up at him confused. She grabbed onto his hips and tried to pull him closer. “Mitch, I don’t understand. I need you.”
“I need you, too, honey. More than I could ever explain. I need to know that you’ll marry me. I need to know that the next time you feel my hardness inside of you, that I am loving my future wife. Tell me you love me. Tell me you’ll marry me.” His words were pleading and patient both at the same time.
“Yes. I will marry you. Take me, Mitch, make me yours forever.” She reached up to kiss him and gasped at the feel of his deep thrust inside her.
He kissed her in return, releasing all of the lustful desire that had been fueled by the pain of what they had gone through that day. They caressed and loved each other’s bodies until they were on the brink, hovering between sanity and insanity.
Mitch rocked in and out of her body, loving the feel of her arching into him and the sound of her moans. “Yeah, you feel so good, honey. Oh, baby. We are going to have such a good life together.”
THE END
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Nicole Morgan is an avid reader who kept having one recurring problem. Ideas of stories kept popping into her head. She ignored her desire to write until her curiosity got the better of her and she decided to research what steps she would have to take if she truly wanted to take a chance and write.
Nicole took a chance and followed her dream. She has been blessed with some fabulous opportunities and has met some wonderful people along the way. Writing is a true love to her and has brought her a new and profound happiness with every step she’s taken along the way.
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