The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0581

He was demanding, his tongue insistent, his lips melding with mine. I clutched at his shoulders, holding on, as his hands traced long paths up and down the length of my back.

When we broke for air, I sighed against him. He laughed lightly as he kissed along my cheek to my ear.

"No more fears of what is between us," he said. "Because I am truly alive because of you."

"Oh, Nick..." I turned into him and sought out his lips this time.

After another kiss, and then another, we split far enough to rest our foreheads together. I closed my eyes, finding contentment here with him like this.

*Julian's right," Nicholas said, breaking the soft quiet between us.

I peeked open my eyes to look up at him.

"I have to treat you right, keep you happy, or I risk losing you. If not to Julian, then to someone else," Nichols said. "You are precious, Piper. There are many people who would be ready and willing to scoop you up if I fumbled even once."

I smiled and shook my head lightly. "You can't think you would lose me so easily."

should only know love and happiness." He sighed as he

your fault," I told him, "and

doing is getting you off this damned boat. I can't wait to get you

help but

having noticed our intimate moment had been courteous in letting us have a few moments alone above deck. They nodded at me now as we passed them. They each wore soft smiles. I wondered how much

deck. There I found Elva, I rushed to her and held her. She

wrong, Mommy?" she

"Nothing," I said.

all wet? Did you go

and now I'd gotten Elva

"I'm sorry," I said.

"It'skay," she said,

cheek and sat beside her. She was still coloring in the coloring book pages. Now she was showing me her work. She was getting better at

day,"

don't know

"Me, too," Veronica said.