The Best Is Yet To Come by Bella Andre

Author:Bella Andre [Andre, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: Bella Andre
Published: 2017-05-09T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Sarah woke as the first, faint rays of light began to brighten the sky outside the bedroom window. She hadn’t slept many hours, but they’d all been good ones, safe in Calvin’s arms.

He pulled her closer, his arm tight over her waist, his hand curling into her rib cage. Holding her breath, she listened to his breathing. It was even, and she assumed he was still asleep, that his reaching for her had been completely unconscious.

A week ago, she would have been up and out of his bed in seconds, throwing on her clothes and getting in his rowboat, speeding across the lake as fast as her arms could take her to make sure she put distance between them. But last night, he’d been there for her in a way no one ever had. He’d been there for her mother too, taking care of both of them in the ambulance and in the hospital.

Somewhere between then and now—between that moment when he’d come rushing into the store with the paramedic crew and the one where he’d pointed out cloud formations on his dock, between the moment she’d trusted him to strip her clothes off to put her into his bed and then slept all night curled up in the safety of his arms—she’d realized a new truth. No matter what happened out in the real world, whether condos were built or not, whether they lived in cities or small towns, she could always count on him.

They had always been in it together as best friends and playmates, practically from birth. He’d been the boy in sixth grade who had taken her to the office for ice when they’d been playing kickball and the ball had nailed her in the nose. He’d been the teenager who had asked her to dance in eighth grade at their first real after-school party when she’d been standing all alone in the corner. He’d been the one to pull her out of the way of the propeller when she had fallen out of the speedboat in tenth grade, letting her cling to him long past when she’d stopped shaking. And he’d been her first lover at seventeen, the night she’d pulled him into the backseat of his beat-up old car, and they’d lost their virginity together.

As the magnitude of her realizations brought her more and more awake, she realized Calvin’s breathing was no longer even and there was a slight tension in the arm slung across her.

Last night had been pure comfort, without even a hint of sexuality between them. But this morning, with his muscles hot and hard against her skin, she had another epiphany.

She wanted him. Just as she always had.

Just as she always would.

And even though the voice of common sense screamed inside her head, trying to get her to listen, to stop before things went any further, something much stronger than common sense had her silencing that voice and moving her hand over Calvin’s to thread her fingers between his.

Slowly

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