Let Me Love You

Kaelia

I kissed him, letting everything pour out, love, relief, all the promises I’d been carrying. He kissed me back like he’d been starving for it, his hands coming up to cradle my face, mouth hungry and urgent.

“I need you,” he whispered against my lips. “Need to feel you. Need to remember what’s real.”

“Then take me,” I told him. “I’m yours.”

We tumbled onto the bed, but when his hands reached