Irresistibly Mine by Stephanie Rowe

Author:Stephanie Rowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940968421
Publisher: SBD Press

Chapter 16

Blue refused to go to sleep, as he lay in Chloe's bed with her tucked in his arms. He knew damn well how to keep himself awake even when he was so tired that every cell in his brain was screaming at him to shut it down. He knew how to keep himself awake when his life depended on it, and he felt like that right now. He felt like if he missed a moment of feeling her body against his, and her soft breath against his throat, that his soul might simply deflate and disappear forever.

He pressed his face to her hair, breathing deeply. He decided that he needed to start learning the names of flowers, so that he could learn to identify them and connect them with Chloe. "What's the scent of your shampoo?"

"Mmm..." She mumbled sleepily. "I think it's eucalyptus."

"I'm going to have to buy some."

"Some of my shampoo?"

"No. Eucalyptus."

"You like the smell?"

"I like that it reminds me of you. I'm going to need that when I leave here. I'm going to need some kind of reminder that there's beauty left in this world."

Chloe stirred in his arms, and he felt her press a kiss to the inside of his wrist. Her back was against his chest, and his leg was over her hip, pulling her flush against him. He couldn't see her face, but he smiled when he felt her lips on his wrist. "I like that."

"You have a lovely wrist." Her voice sounded sleepy, and he liked that as well. He liked that she felt content and safe enough to doze off in his arms.

He spent his life saving other people, but somehow the fact that Chloe felt safe enough to sleep in his arms was exponentially more rewarding than every single other person that he'd rescued. There was something about her heart that touched him, that made it impossible for him to stay emotionally hard. He'd thought he liked to be hard. He'd thought it made it easier for him. He was sure it had, actually. At the same time, however, feeling the softness of Chloe against him, and breathing in her scent, and feeling the utter contentment of his muscles, was infinitely more beautiful than anything else he'd ever experienced.

If he was a different guy, maybe he could've had a life of this. But he was damn glad that he'd gotten a few minutes of it. She made everything in his life make more sense. He understood more now why his parents and all of his family had been unable to look him in the eye after that day. The day that Brian had disappeared, they had lost this kind of connection with Brian, and they'd thought that it would never come back again. This is what he'd stolen from them with his inattentiveness to his brother. He understood that now in a way he never had before because of how deeply this moment was affecting him. If he thought that he'd have Chloe forever, and then he lost her, it would rip him apart.

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