***
I breathed out the moment Derek and his men left and the warriors began taking out the bodies.
Ace walked to me, and I wanted to jump into his arms but Marissa was still holding me tight. She had stopped shaking now but still gripped my shirt.
I turned to Ace and he smiled in understanding.
"Hey, Marissa. They're gone, you can look now."
She sniffed and the moment she released me, I threw myself up and swooped into Ace's embrace. We stayed like that for a while, inhaling each other's scent and letting our thoughts confess our desires. The reaction from our bodies was enough to tell us how much we missed each other.
I couldn't speak. Among the million words stuck in my stomach and waiting for release, I couldn't find the one to relieve first. For a moment, I just wanted to be l
