Chapter 44 I Love Her
- I opened my eyes in the dark to the scent of Brynne up my nose and smiled when I figured out where we were. She's in your bed with me. I was careful to be still so as not to disturb her sleeping. She faced me, but her head was turned down and curled around her arm. Entranced and content for the first time in days, I just watched her breathe for a few minutes. I wanted to touch my girl, but I let her sleep. By God she needed it.
- Need. So much need inside me now. Needs only Brynne could satisfy, and that scared me. I couldn't imagine feeling this way about any woman just a month ago, and now I couldn't imagine not having her in my life. The time apart had changed me forever, I feared.
- I inhaled deeply and held it. The faint smell of sex was in the sheets from earlier, but mostly it was just her clean, flowery scent that intoxicated me. It intoxicated me now just as it had intoxicated me on the very first night we met. She smelled so good I hated to leave her alone in the bed, but I got up carefully and threw on some joggers and a T-shirt.