“For a guy who doesn’t say a lot, you sure do know how to say exactly what a girl needs to hear. I love you. I don’t want to imagine my world without you, Tristan. I thought I could live without you, but I don’t want to.”
Rising to my feet, I took the woman I loved in my arms and kissed her in front of the whole world to show everyone she was mine and I was hers. As I held her in my arms, I whispered, “No more secrets, no more time apart. From this point on, I’m making it my job to make sure you’re the happiest woman in the world.”
Nina smiled up at me and held my chin between her thumb and forefinger. “You better.”
Taking her left hand in mine, I turned it over and saw the engagement ring I’d given her. “I see you didn’t take the ring off.”
She let out a deep sigh and shrugged. “I guess I just wasn’t ready to really be done with you, after all.”
I’d made sure when I checked into the hotel that I’d gotten the same room Nina and I had the last time we traveled to Venice. She needed to know that time had meant everything to me. I might not be able to say the right words, but maybe I could show her I truly couldn’t live without her.
Candles flickered in glass containers placed around the room, giving the suite a magical feeling. Nina looked around the rooms like she had the first time, her eyes full of wonder as she admired what I owned. “It’s just as beautiful now as it was the last time we were here, Tristan.”
Sliding my hands over her shoulders, I whispered, “All for you. Everything I own is yours.”
She turned in my hold and shook her head. “I don’t want things, Tristan. What I need you can’t put a price on or buy. As long as I have the truth from you, I’ll be happy. Just the truth.”
“I can’t live without you, Nina. If truth is what it takes to make you happy, then it’s yours. I just hope the real me is what you want.”
She wrapped her arms around my neck and stood on her toes to kiss me softly on the lips. “I’m madly in love with the real you, Tristan Stone. I know you’re not perfect. I just need you to promise no more secrets. I can’t live like that.”
I cupped her nape and looked into those gentle blue eyes. “No more secrets. But right now, I don’t want to talk about secrets or anything else. I don’t want to think about anything but you and me and reliving our last time here.”
Her body melted into mine as my lips covered hers in a kiss full of need. She was perfect in my arms, right where she was meant to be. I slid her shirt over her head and her jeans from her legs to reveal mismatched bra and panties. I couldn’t help but smile. All the money in the world, and she still was that wonderfully unspoiled Nina who stole my heart all those months ago.
“You’re laughing at me, aren’t you?” she said with a sexy smile.
I slowly lowered myself to my knees and looked up at her. “No. Not laughing. Charmed.”
A delightful blush colored her cheeks. Biting her lip, she rolled her eyes. “Charmed, huh?”
Hooking my thumbs under her panties, I gave them a slight tug as she wiggled her ass to help me remove them. They easily slid down her gorgeous legs, and stepping one foot out of them, she kicked them away, leaving her standing there open to me.
I licked my lips in anticipation of tasting her sweetness on my tongue, dying to feel her slick pussy grind against my face as I slowly and methodically inched her toward release. She looked down at me, so sexy yet innocent, and I couldn’t wait anymore. With my hands on her ass, I pulled her to me and slid my tongue the full length of her wet slit. Her body trembled when I touched her swollen clit, and I flicked the tip of my tongue once more as she whimpered my name.
Her hands skimmed over my scalp, gently pulling me closer to give her what she desperately wanted. My mouth devoured her, loving every moment of pleasure her pussy gave me. I wanted to give her that pleasure back. I wanted to be the only man who made her body sing.
“Tristan, my legs can’t hold me up when you do that,” she whined sweetly above me as I sucked her clit between my lips. “I’m going to fall…”
Lifting my head, I smiled and licked my lips to taste her. “I won’t let you fall. Just hold on to my shoulders. This was all I could think of the whole flight here.”
I wasn’t lying. To ward off the anxiety that always came with flying, I’d spent the entire time fantasizing about making love to her. It had been the best flight I’d ever had.
“You were pretty confident I’d take you back, weren’t you?”
I slid my middle finger through her wet folds and sucked the taste from the tip into my mouth. “I had to hope.”