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I’d become loyal to a fantasy,
Eyes closed, I murmured, “A kiss won’t corrupt me, but if your lips don’t touch mine . . . you just might kill me.”
The way he said it, the look in his eyes, it all came home to me. He felt the connection, too. He’d admitted at the house it was real. It was all happening so fast, but maybe the decade-plus of me wanting him meant this was the slowest of all burns and not instalove.
He drew me into his arms and hugged me. Orgasm oxytocin was great. But Carter holding me like I was his whole world, well, it was a whole other level of amazing. This man could easily be more than just my world. He could be my entire universe.
“Energy doesn’t lie,” I whispered back. “Matter can neither be created nor destroyed.”
Mouth to my ear, his voice sinfully dark, he whispered, “Here I am, trying to be a changed man, and it’s an angel attempting to provoke the devil to come out and play.”
“I didn’t know,” he said, his hoarse voice catching on a shuttered sob. “I didn’t know it could be like this.”
My heart when I read this!!!!
“Give it to me.” His voice broke as he thumbed the tears away at my cheeks. “All of your pain,” he begged, “please, let me take it from you. Let me hold on to it so you don’t have to carry it.”
this man...
“I didn’t realize until this week, until being with you, what it was like to be someone’s equal. And Christ, it feels so fucking good.”
“I have also made the decision to share this technology with countries that aren’t our so-called friends. The people of those nations shouldn’t suffer because of the poor decisions of their officials. It’s time we get back to remembering we’re all just people trying to live. Doing our best to survive. Find some happiness or prosperity along the way, too.” He slowly lifted his head, eyes on his audience. “It’s time we remember our humanity. Our commonalities all around the globe, not just within our country.” He paused, allowing his words to sink in.
