Spring by Jessica Florence

Author:Jessica Florence [Florence, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Hazel

I’d say that I couldn’t remember the last time I’d slept as good as I did last night, but that would be a bald-faced lie. I had always slept like the dead with Maddox next to me. Nothing had changed in our years apart. He still comforted me and made me feel like I was the only girl in his world.

Despite the perfect rest in his arms, I woke up before him, thinking about everything. I peered at Maddox’s sleeping face and mesmerized his familiar yet strange face. His star-shaped scar beneath his now swollen lip still made me smile, even with its awful family history. He’d been abused as a kid. His dad had burned the tip of a screwdriver and touched him with it on multiple parts of his young body, including his lip. Unfortunately, that wasn’t even the worst of the stories of his past. I’d always loved how strong he was regardless of his painful experiences. He suffered, and never grew jaded at the world. My ex-white knight.

I sighed and continued perusing his body, looking for signs of the man I used to know while attempting to understand the new him.

“I’m here to compliment the life you’ve created, and I’ll wait as long as it takes. No expectations.” He probably didn’t realize how hard those words had hit my soul. My old therapist used to drill into my head that true happiness comes from within, not from outside sources. When you love someone and want him or her in your life, you choose to let their happiness compliment yours. Love added to the joy existing within your soul, not its sole purpose.

He slept soundly and I watched his ab muscles flex with every breath. He really looked like a Viking—rough and massive. My gaze dipped down to his hardened dick peeking above the waistband of his shorts. I’d slept in the nude, since I usually did and he’d already seen me naked many times. I thought maybe he’d try to kiss me again or cop a feel or two but he simply crawled into bed and held me. We both fell asleep quickly.

I didn’t know why I had stepped into the shower with him. Was it the need to comfort him, my old friend, or something more? The confusion inside my head ate at my senses. I didn’t know which way was up, and what to do. He said he’d wait however long until I chose him, but what if I didn’t want that?

Caught up in my thoughts, I didn’t notice a pair of sea-blue eyes watching me.

“I wasn’t staring at you.”

My poor attempt to lie brought a smirk to his lips. Lips I wanted to kiss, and without the strength to resist him, I leaned in to taste what I wanted, trying not to hurt his injury as best as a I could.

“You know my will is only so strong when it comes to you, right?” he muttered against my mouth, and my answer came in the form of my fingers caressing his abs.

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