When the Stars Fall (Lost Stars, #1)

by Emery Rose

Don’t leave me again. Don’t ever push me away again. If you do, my heart will break. For real, for real. Do you wanna break my heart, Rebel? Are you going to?”

It felt dangerous, loving someone the way I loved him.

Pulling cotton aside, I stroked her with my fingers, circling and sliding, coating them with the wet heat of her arousal. “I don’t want your fingers.” Impatient, she pushed my hand away. “I want you.”

It’s going to hurt. I’m going to hurt you.” “I don’t care.”

Baby. I love you. Tell me what I can do to make this better. I’ll do anything.” “Put the stars back in the sky, Jude. It’s so dark and lonely without them.”

You were my girl, Lila. Mine. I never thought you’d betray me like that.”

“I never thought you’d leave me but you did. And the day you walked out that door, you gave up the right to call me your girl. I’m not yours anymore, Jude.”

“Is that right?” He advan...

Liar.” He dipped his head, his lips a mere fraction of an inch from mine and then he kissed me. His mouth was on mine,

The kiss grew frenzied and wild and he set me down on the island, my legs still cinched around his waist, my skirt bunched around my hips. His tongue dragged down my neck while his hands slid down my sides. Then he ripped my skirt open and pushed aside my panties. Two fingers glided through my slick heat and I whimpered when his thumb circled the tight bundle of nerves.

Tell me, Lila. Does Brody make you this wet? Does he make you lose your mind over a kiss?”

It felt like I’d been homeless for so long that I didn’t even know what a home should feel like anymore. That wasn’t true. I knew what home felt like. My home was not a place, it was a person. My home was Lila.

“You owe me a date,” I called after her.

“You owe me an entire galaxy. I’m still waiting for you to put the stars back in the sky.”

Our love story had played out like a fucking tragedy. Redemption never came easy but I was up to the task.

I kissed her like she was the air I needed to breathe, and she clung to me, her hands squeezing my shoulders, legs tightly cinched around me like she was scared I’d disappear. My lips moved to her neck and I rocked my hips, grinding against her. “I could fuck you right here against the wall.” “Do it.” There was a challenge in her voice that I knew so well.

after we lost the baby. An anniversary she’d chosen to commemorate by having her skin permanently marked.

“I didn’t get it right the first time, but I promise you that I’ll never leave you again. I’ll be by your side through thick and thin. I’ll walk through fire for you. Carry your burdens. Love you until I take my dying breath. And even after that, my soul will go on loving you and I will find you in the next life. Because you give me life. I live and breathe you. I have been loving you for so long. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for you. And for Noah. I love you and only you.” He tipped his beautiful face up to look at me, and I could barely see him through the blur of tears. “Will you marry me, Lila?”

“Thank you,” I said, turning in his arms and framing his face in my hands. “For what?” “For putting the stars back in the sky.” “You ain’t seen nothing yet, baby. I’m going to give you an entire universe.”

I inhale her exhales. I live and breathe her.