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."

love and happiness." He sighed as he looked

him, "and I refuse to hear anything else about

"You're right. What we should be doing is getting you off this damned boat. I

help

The crew, probably having noticed our intimate moment had been courteous in letting us have a few moments

shore, the others had moved onto the deck. There I found Elva,

wrong, Mommy?" she

"Nothing," I said.

are you all wet? Did you

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

"I'm sorry," I said.

"It'skay," she said,

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

a day,"

Julian said. "I don't know about everyone else, but I'm ready