He moved in me in barely contained thrusts, slow and hard in his claiming command while I spun through the brightest kind of bliss.
Blinding.
Where I basked in this unfathomable beauty.
In that place that had become us.
Real and whole.
His mouth brushed against mine. “You changed everything, Rynna. Where I found an end, you saw a beginning. You saved me. Called me from the shadows. You changed everything the day you walked into my life. You are my heart’s second chance.”
I floated on the ecstasy of that chance.
Elevated.
Tossed into our perfect harmony.
Where I’d fall forever.
Weightless.
Rex clutched me by the shoulders, his rocks turning frenzied as he clutched me against him, as he burrowed his face into my hair, as he whispered my name.
“Rynna.”
And Rex.
He fell with me.
Exactly where he’d always belonged.
30
Rynna
Peace swam through his room, a dusky quiet broken by the milky moonlight streaming in from the window. I didn’t think there could be anything more perfect than being nestled in the crook of his arm with my head resting on his chest.
Tangled together.
Basking in the afterglow.
He gently brushed his fingers through my hair, and I sighed, so content, and I could only pray this incredible man felt the same. I rolled a fraction so I could place a kiss over the thrum of his heart. “You’re my heart’s second chance, too,” I told him through a murmur.
He shifted me to lay on top of him. Nudging me back, he peered up at me. “How’s that?”
I played with one of the longer locks of his hair. “The entire time I was in San Francisco, I felt as if I was missing something. When I left...” I blinked through the memories, searching for what to say, wondering if I should even bring it up.
The past was the past.
But he’d shared his, and I needed him to know mine.
“I won’t pretend what happened to me comes anywhere close to what you went through. To what you and Ollie and Kale lost that day. But I lost a piece of myself when I left. More than one piece,” I admitted in a hurried whisper. “I left behind my dreams and my innocence and my hopes. I left behind my grandmother. My only family.”
The loss of her drummed through me. A woeful ache.
He threaded his fingers through my hair and cupped the side of my head. “You don’t have to minimize what you went through, Rynna. Yeah, what happened with Sydney was brutal. So goddamned brutal. But I know I’m not the only person in this world who’s suffered.”
Rex wavered for a moment, before his words dropped low. “What happened, Rynna? What sent you running?”
