Trusting You (Second Chances #2)(40)
Sniffling, I snuggled closer. “Brett,” I whispered.
“I’m here. Just rest.”
I didn’t think I could cry anymore, but the sting behind my eyes burned like fire. He was there and he was holding me; that was enough. When I drifted off to sleep and woke up again, Brett was behind me, cradling me in his arms. I didn’t want to move because I was afraid that if I did he would pull away again. Instead, I lay there and stayed quiet.
“I know you’re awake, Melissa,” he breathed softly against my neck. “Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere. I just needed to leave and clear my head. I didn’t mean to leave you the way I did, but I had to go.”
“Where did you go?”
He sighed and ran his fingers over my bare arms making me shiver and move closer to the heat of his body. “I mainly just drove around so I could think and calm down. I spent the rest of the time at the airport watching the planes take off. I had to do something to keep from going after the bastard.”
Turning around in his arms, I was scared to face him, but I had to look into his eyes. “Please forgive me,” I begged. “I don’t want you mad at me when all I wanted was to protect us. You have to know it made me sick to keep it from you. I was angry and disgusted with myself for not telling you.”
He nodded. “I know, baby. I understand now that that’s the reason why you haven’t been eating.” When I averted my gaze, Brett lifted my chin so I’d look at him. “Look, I’m not mad at you anymore, okay? I know I stormed out of here last night, but I do understand why you didn’t tell me. I just had to have a clear head to think straight. I promise I’m not going anywhere. If I get mad and walk away that’s just how I deal with things sometimes. We’re not always perfect.”
He leaned over, kissing me softly on the lips, and whispered, “Just always know that I will come back to you no matter what. No matter what obstacles are thrown our way, I will always come back. But there is something I have to know.”
Slowly, and with his unwavering gaze, he traced my cheek with his finger and then trailed them down to my heart, placing his hand over the pounding rhythm inside my chest.
“Do you trust me?” he asked warily.
And there it was, the one question I’d been dying to answer all my life with the sound of three simple words. What’s crazy is that I should be asking him the same question? I was the one who betrayed his trust, but yet I loved him with all my heart. Why was it so easy to love someone, but so hard to trust? Did I trust him?
Deep in my heart, I knew the answer. I’d known for a long time. Yes, I trust him.
“Do you?” he repeated, his brows furrowing with my hesitation.
With tears flowing down my cheeks, I nodded my head and cried softly, “I do, Brett. I trust you with all my heart and soul. But I’m the one who should be asking that question to you. I’m the one who kept things from you when I should’ve been honest. So …” I paused for just a moment, “… do you trust me?”
Biting his lip, Brett slowly rolled on top of me and pushed my legs apart with his knee. Running his fingers through my auburn hair, he smiled down at me with such longing and need. “Firecracker, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t, and right now I want us to enjoy this morning together with no thoughts of anything else except you and me … making love. Can we do that?” he asked, lifting my tank top up and over my shoulders, exposing my bare breasts.
For the first time in days I had a genuine smile spread across my face. “I think I can live with that.” Because once we met with Korinne and Galen everything was going to come back full force; the stress was going to come right back.
Even though our emotions were running high, once we were both naked and laid out on his bed, he entered me gently and rocked his hips in a slow, torturous pace while holding me tight against his body. His muscular arms caged me in as he took my face in his hands and kissed me slowly, passionately.
“I think I like it this way,” he uttered huskily. “Slow … gentle, because now I can feel everything inside you, every clench, every muscle wrapping around me. It feels so f*cking good and I love it … I love you.”
“I love you, too,” I breathed. And that’s what we did. We loved each other for those precious moments we had before things took a turn for the worse once we had to deal with Daniel.
Brett continued his slow rhythm while I rocked my hips against his, countering his pace, and lifting up to allow him in further. He loved it when I lifted my hips because he could get in deeper, giving me all of him.
My orgasm was closing in and he could sense it because he tensed in my arms and picked up his pace. I could feel his arousal pulsating inside me and I knew he was close as well. Moaning, I gripped the smooth plains of his shoulders and dug my nails in as my release started building swiftly.
“I’m coming with you, baby,” Brett growled. “Let it go.”
Arching my back, my eyes fluttered closed as I rode wave after wave of him taking my body to new limits. My blood sizzled in my veins as the tremors of my release shuddered throughout my soul, to the point where tears clouded my vision and my heart swelled, feeling as if I’d explode. Brett clutched me tighter as his release had him spilling his warmth all inside me, coating me in his desire. I loved the intimacy of it and I craved it. I craved him.