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She pressed her lips against mine and I savored her the way I had a thousand times a day in my dreams, only this time it was real, it was new, and it was better than all my remembrances over the years.
I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her so tightly I feared I might crush her. Her breath wheezed in her throat but she didn’t complain.
She ran her fingers through my hair and smiled up at me.
“What?” I said. “What is it?”
“It’s nothing… I just… I keep thinking that any second now I’m going to wake up and you won’t be here.”
I ran my fingers down her cheek. “I am here. And this time, I’m going nowhere without you.”
Lily almost broke down in tears. “Now it all makes sense…”
“What does?” I said, rocking her gently back and forth.
“When the riot happened, a bunch of Thillak’s men came to protect us. I didn’t know why and they didn’t explain. They probably didn’t know either. It’s because of your deal with Thillak.”
“Yes,” I said.
But I couldn’t rely on his help now that he had been dethroned by Druin. It was a problem I would have to deal with later — if I needed to deal with it at all — and shoved it from my mind. I didn’t want to think about any of that stuff right now. I just wanted to be with Lily.
After five long years apart, there was nowhere else I wanted to be. Five years melted away like they’d never happened at all. I hugged her close and knew that so long as I drew breath, I would never let her go.
Lily parted from me and approached the door. I thought she was going to return to work to keep up appearances and was surprised when she turned the lock instead.
“What are you doing?” I said.
“It’s been five long years,” Lily said, unzipping her dress and letting it slide down her hips to the floor. “You owe me.”
My cock leaped to attention right away. In all my fantasies, I never expected this to happen… at least not so fast!
I shoved my own clothing off and we met each other in front of the desk.
I doubt we’d worked through all the emotional ramifications of us being back together again already, but right now, that didn’t matter. Right now, we needed to be together physically.
I reached down and squeezed her nipple. She shut her eyes and relished the sensation.
“It’s been five years,” I said. “You’re going to have to go steady with me.”
“It’s been five years,” Lily acknowledged with a kiss to my lips. “There will be no steady.”
31
LILY
The shock had been immense.
Seeing him here, in my office, the past and the present slamming together so hard it left me spinning.
I had so many emotions vying for my attention it made me dizzy.
I wanted to kiss him, to take him right then and there, and that was quickly displaced by my wanting to slap him for leaving me in the first place, which was then supplanted by tears that wanted to stream down my face out of sadness, longing, desperation… I couldn’t even tell what the emotion was, it was that complex.
But I believed him.
Was I a fool? Maybe.
But I was a fool in love, and being with him in that tiny intimate space made all the darkness and poison that’d infected my veins and our memories together vanish in an instant… like he was the relentless cure to my affliction.
