The Luna Choosing Game

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."

happiness." He sighed as he looked away. "I fear I am already failing at

this is your fault," I told him, "and I refuse to hear anything

nodded a little. "You're right. What we should be doing is getting you off this damned boat. I can't wait to get you off

help

intimate moment had been courteous in letting us have a few moments alone above deck. They nodded at me now as we passed

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

wrong, Mommy?" she

"Nothing," I said.

you all wet? Did you go for

I had forgotten I was still soaked through, and now I'd gotten Elva wet as well. I had just been so happy

"I'm sorry," I said.

"It'skay," she said,

and sat beside her. She was still coloring in the coloring book pages. Now she was

a day," Jessica

know about everyone else,