Chapter 6
I DIDN’T WANT TO RUSH this time.
Instead, I felt an overwhelming need to make it last. The future wasn’t certain, or set, and I wasn’t sure I would survive tomorrow. I didn’t know where we would be tomorrow or the day after that or the day after that. All I had was here, now, this moment with him.
That instinct for survival, for making every day count, made this moment, oh so special.
I stood up and began to undress, enjoying the way his gaze followed my every move. Lingered in places, made me feel beautiful. My breath caught in my throat as his eyes flicked up to mine, heat and desire whirling within his gaze.
It was strange, this overwhelming sense of beauty I felt when he looked at me, as though I was some kind of miracle he had never set eyes on before. I had never felt
