Malakai's POV
"Wait!"
I was on the bed in a blink, my trembling hands pressing Camilla’s to her sides, stopping the gown from slipping off.
She met my eyes with that same desperate, pleading look and clutched at my shirt. "I want... you," she stammered.
It took everything in me, every ounce of focus I had, to hear that through the pounding in my chest. When I did, I should have been the happiest man alive. Hearing those three impossible words from the woman I had been craving like air, every minute of every damn day since she came into my life, should have felt like a dream.
But it did not.
"I don't think so, baby." I tried to steady my voice, but it shook. Hell, I shook. "You're hurting, and you just want it to stop."
I eased her out of that position that made my sanity slip by the
