Chapter Forty-six

One month later

[Lucien’s POV]

I kissed her, gently at first , then with force, until she had no choice but to kiss me back. I held onto her tightly as if I might fly away into space and never see her again. My lips moved against hers, over and over in slow motion. And it was wonderful because, even though we had had sex many times since we had been together for a month, it was the first time that our love felt whole, solid, real, and not like a dream or an illusion.

She knew it, too, and her hands were everywhere on me, holding onto my hips and shoulders, stroking my face, pushing my hair back from my eyes and pressing kisses all along my jaw, down my throat to my chest, which was pressed flat against hers. She didn't need me to tell her where to put her tongue. We both could feel each other's passion, so close yet so far away at once. My hands found their way under her shirt to touch skin that wasn't clothed, and she shivered in response.

I ripped off the shirt, whispering to her th