*Esma*
As I stroke my fingers over his bare shoulders, and his mouth returns to mine, his long strides take me to the bed, and I feel joy spiral through me when I never expected to feel joy again. I waited until Eden drifted off to sleep before slipping from the bed and coming to this room.
I've been waiting nervously for his arrival. A dozen times I considered returning to Eden’s bed, but if my life is to be cut short or if it is to take me on a journey to the far side of the world where I will never again be in Jamie’s company, then I want this time with him, and so I waited in anticipation.
And I was not disappointed when he walked through the door bare-chested and masculine, larger than life, bold and confident. He is everything I am not. Never doubting what he wants. Never questio
