“Finally… it feels so good to say it out loud,” he breathes out. “I’ve been dying to say it for so long, baby. My love for you is imprinted on my bones, and I’m sick of trying to hide it.”
I’m dumbfounded, trying to figure out if I’m dreaming as he presses small butterfly kisses all over my face.
“Horrible decision, Angel;I’m crazy.” That’s what leaves my mouth when I can move my lips, but it doesn’t affect the way he keeps looking at me.
A look I can finally put a name to.Love.The love I’ve seen about a thousand times in his eyes and actions, only to brush itoff as comfort or safety. I can’t believe I never let myself dwell on it before. I could’ve avoided so much doubt that I was the only one falling.
“Shut up, idiot,” Angel chuckles, not allowing my stupid inner thoughts to hinder our moment.
“You love me? likelove-love… are you sure?” My voice lowers with every word, and my doubts start seeping in.again.
If I offer him a way out, will he take it? Will he say it was just a joke? Maybe he’ll repeat it so I can stop thinking I heard it wrong. My question doesn’t anger him at all. Angel is as calm as ever and continues peppering my face with sweet kisses.
“Every time you’re near me, my heart jumpstarts like it has come back to life. Every single touch from you, even the slightest brush of our hands, linger on me for days, sweetheart. I don’t think I just love you… I-I’m devoted to you, mesmerized beyond sanity.”
I’m trying my best to control my emotions, but with every word that leaves his mouth, I feel myself falling deeper than I already have.
“I love you doesn’t even begin to cover what I feel for you, but I have to start somewhere. You make my world feel so much lighter. I love you, Nevaeh, with every inch of my being and I’m sorry if I’m not making any sense, but I didn’t have time to practice, so this is all just coming out,and…now you’re crying.”
I didn’t know I was until he wiped my cheek and kissed my forehead, still looking at me with those gorgeous emerald eyes that held so much understanding that I just wanted to scream the words back.
“I… uh… we…”
“Take your time, sweetheart.” he brushes my hair out of my face, wiping the few lingering tears. “I know if you said you loved me out of the blue like this, I would be stuck on words, too. I want to say you don’t have to say it back, but honestly? I don’tthink my heart will survive that but don’t say it now because I said that—”
I cut him off by kissing the daylight out of him. The thought of him doubting my love for him is enough for me to embrace his love without my self-created reservations. I don’t let him pull away, wanting to savor this moment a little longer just in case I wake up tomorrow and find out it was all a dream.
“I love you, Angel,” I say before pulling him for another soft kiss.
Angel tenses up, but before I start panicking that I heard it all wrong and he didn’t mean it, he mirrors my doubts.
“You do?”
“Of course I do. The love you’ve shown me, the way you care for me, and how fiercely you protect me from dangerous table corners? It’s hard not to fall in love with you. And let’s be honest here, those emerald eyes have held my heart captive since the night you saved me. Why do you think I call you my Angel, huh?”
Angel is all over me before I can blink. Pinning me under him with my hands held hostage above me, he straddles my hips.
The kiss starts soft, both of us teasing each other and expressing our feelings through it, but the moment he bites my lip harder than usual, making me moan, the kiss isn’t as innocent anymore.
Tracing my bottom lip with his tongue, Angel asks for permission, and I happily oblige, opening for him to slide his tongue inside my mouth, making us moan from the sensation of our warm tongues tasting each other.
I whimper when Angel pulls away, but it turns into a breathy moan when his lips find my neck. Feather-light kisses press against my jaw and travel down to my collarbone. Soon the soft kisses turn into harsher sucking and biting; every bite is followed by his tongue lapping the sensitive skin to soothe it.
I become a mess of loud moans and whimpers beneath him. Fingers burying in his curls to bring his lips back to mine, wanting to taste him again.
Angel tugs the base of my hoodie, asking permission to pull it off, and I’m glad because the temperature in the room is suddenly hiked up. Swiftly removing my hoodie,his mouth was on my neck again, creeping to my collarbone and down to the top of my covered breasts.
“Can I take this off, sweetheart? I want to feel your tits under my palms.” Too stunned by his words, I only manage a nod. “Words, sweetheart.” Pressing a kiss to my lips, he waits with a stern expression, funnily expecting words when I can barely breathe.
I whisper a small yes, and he accepts that. My bra is off in the next second and tossed somewhere in the room. Surprisingly, I’m comfortable laying bare in front of him, not as nervous as I thought I would be.
Angel lets out a pained groan, which forces me to snap my gaze from his lips to his eyes, but they remain fixed on my body, my chest specifically.
The look on his face is pure lust, and I see it overpowering him the more he stares. Softly tracing and kissing every scar on my body, I gasp when Angel suddenly takes one nipple in his hot mouth and sucks like his life depends on it.
My eyes roll back and I fist his hair to keep him in place. Angel kneads my breasts firmly, playing with their weight before squeezing them in his hands. I moan his name louder with every lap of his tongue over my nipple.I think I’m about to pass out. Releasing me with a pop, he switches to the other one to give it the same attention while using his hand to tweak and twist the nipple that feels abandoned.
A hand on my stomach keeps me from squirming under Angel, and he bites my nipple, warning me to stay still. I thoughtit couldn’t get better, but Angel proves me wrong by sliding his hand down until he reaches my upper thigh. His lips find mine again, and I breathe into it when his hand strokes higher, dangerously close to where it throbs.
