“Yeah,” she grins.
I smile at her before taking her lips with mine, unable to resist the urge to kiss her.
I didn’t expect any of this to happen tonight, not with the way she literally ran away from me last night, but I’m so glad it did. I’m fucking crazy about Zhuri, and I’m beyond tired of hiding that from her.
“Will you stay with me tonight?” I ask, brushing my thumb over her cheek.
“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be.”
Zhuri rests her head on my chest, and she drifts off to sleep to the sound of my beating heart.
The heart I’m starting to think beats just for her.
thirty-five
Zhuri
Themorningsunpeeksin from behind the curtains, and once my eyes adjust, I take in my surroundings.
I’m in Cameron’s room, still lying naked in his bed, and his arm is wrapped around me, holding me close.
Last night really happened.
I let myself give in to what I wanted without worrying about my image, and it was one of the best nights of my life.
I feel freer than I ever have, and looking at a still-sleeping Cameron with the sun highlighting the tan skin of his face has my heart skipping a beat.
This man has been calling me beauty in a language I don’t understand for two months. As soon as he was out of earshot last night, I knew Ihadto ask Petar, or I’d never know.
I just never expectedljepotato mean something so sweet.
I went up to his pool deck last night already knowing exactly what was going to happen. That once he admitted to the meaning, I wouldn’t be able to fight it off anymore, this pullbetween us. We weregoingtokiss, and after we did, I wasgoing toend up in his bed.
It was worth it.
Cameron seems so at peace right now.
I look at him intensely, seizing my opportunity to do it without having to quickly avert my gaze like I used to.
His chocolate-brown hair is mussed up from me running my hands through it when he had his head between my legs. His back has light scratches from when I ran my fingers down it while he was inside me.
My favorite thing of all, though, is that he just looks so… content. Unworried.Happy.
It makes him even more devastatingly handsome than usual.
My heart swells with my own happiness at knowing that I helped give him this. After everything he’s gone through, Cameron deserves all the happiness in the world.
I’m just grateful he’s finding it with me.
He stirs now, and when his eyes flutter open and land on me, the first thing he does is smile. “Good morning, Z.”
“Good morning, Cam.” I lean up and place a soft kiss on his lips. “How did you sleep?”
Cameron wraps me up tightly and pulls me even closer. “Slept better than I ever have.”
“Ever, huh?”
“Mhmm,” he murmurs, pushing my hair out of my face. “I got to hold you all night. It’s the best sleep I’ve ever had.”
