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Chapter 118: Penitents, Part 13

James

I am content simply that she accepts me again. Any desire I have to make love with her is eclipsed by her need for healing, and not just healing of the body.

I don't try to touch her, not beyond a kiss on the cheek or a hand on the arm...

.... Nothing sexual ....

For all that I know there is far more to her than a beautiful face and body, I miss the physicality of how it was. I want to make love with her. I want to romp and rejoice with her....

.... but right now. I am content to wait while she heals....

And I wait and hope for more, for the time when we two will be as we were before....

.... We three....

Then I was Master. Now I am the Supplicant.

We have not made love since my sin against her, but that's fine. Happy simply to make my peace with her, I want to love her with my body, but as I hold her, draw her close, there is a slight stiffening that says I have gone far enough.

I want to embrace her, rock her in my arms and tell her she's safe. But there's
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