"Feel better?" I asked, teasing him with the same words he'd used on me.
But Scott just grinned, slow and satisfied. Sliding down flat on the bed, he pulled me to him and tugged a blanket up to cover us.
"Better?" Scott repeated, brushing his nose over my throat as I snuggled into him. "Now that you're back in my arms? Absolutely."
It wasn't until I was drifting off to sleep, straddling the barrier between the waking world and the dream realm, that I realized when I saw the pictures, I had recognized my own face for the first time since I'd been released from the hospital.
Scott
I was dozing contentedly, Harley sprawled across my chest, his legs tangled with my own when a howl from outside brought me back to the present.
"I should probably be going," Harley murmured.
"Too soon," I disagreed, tightening my arms around him to hold him in place. "Been without you too long already."
"I know but you heard them call me." Harley gave a small laugh and kissed my pec, right above my heart. "I can't believe you waited for me."
"Oh, Har," I nuzzled into his hair and then kissed his temple. "You were worth a hundred times the wait." I propped myself up on one elbow, grinning when he clung to me, laughing eyes looking up through his lashes as he did. "But now that I've got you, you need to know I'm serious. I want to cl..marry you," I barely caught myself. "I'm going to talk to Zade."
His eyes clouded and I knew the briefest moment of fear that he didn't still want me. After all, in his mind, we had just met. "You will, won't you, babe? Marry me?"
Harley studied me for a minute before his eyes cleared. "Yeah, Scott. If you're sure that you want me, of course I will." He peeled his body off of mine with a grimace, brushing uselessly at the cum-crusted denim of his jeans. "I think I better get back and get changed before I go to that meeting," he said with a nervous laugh. "Otherwise, it's going to be pretty obvious what we were up to."
"Good idea," I agreed, brushing my lips over his cheek. "I'm going to catch up with Zade and then I'll find you."
