Holding Out For A Hero (The Five Sisters Series) by VA Browning Read Free Book Online

not think twice about it.  But now, I have already lost my wife, apparently even before she died, and I don't want to go through that again—nor do I want you to have to choose."
     
    Taylor was surprised at the way he put his feelings out there.  She was not sure how she felt about what he said, what if she did have a boyfriend out there?  It was hard to know.  "Mike, I want you in the worst way, and I want to be very, very good for you, but I understand.  I need the comfort you give me, but only if it doesn't hurt you.  Can you stand to stay down here tonight with me if we sleep in the same bed?  I am afraid of more nightmares,” Taylor told him.
     
    Mike sighed.  He was conscious of the fact that he was aroused and remembered how hard it was to sleep the last time he had her in his bed.  He got out of the bed and stood up, not facing her.  "Give me a couple of minutes to calm down, then I will be back and I can make sure you don't have any more bad dreams."  He left the room and went upstairs to his room. 
     

Chapter 12
    Taylor lay in bed awake for the 20 minutes it took Mike to come back.  He was dressed in a t-shirt and shorts over his boxers.  And he seemed to have psyched himself up for sleeping next to her.  He crawled into the bed and pulled her back to him, snuggling up to her, and kissed the top of her head.  He didn't say goodnight or anything else, and Taylor wondered how hard it was for him to come back down and be with her.  Although, if he had taken much longer, she would have come upstairs to get him!
     
    When she fell asleep, her dreams were of Mike, not of a car crash.  She slept peacefully, and did not even hear Mike leave the bed, but he was gone when she woke up.  He was not upstairs either, but he had left a note on her bedside table, which she noticed when she came back down to her room. 
     
    You were sleeping so well, I went for a run. Be back soon.  Mike
     
    So, he went for a run.  Well, Taylor thought, I guess I will make some breakfast.  She sat back down in her bed and ran her fingers through her hair.  She was not going to be able to continue fighting the fact that she really wanted to be with Mike.  That she wanted to run her fingers through his hair and feel him inside her. 
     
    Taylor grabbed Brutus, and they went to the kitchen to start breakfast.  When Mike returned from his run, he asked if she’d had anymore nightmares.  Taylor told him no, and tried to talk about their relationship.
     
    “What is it that we should do, should I leave to make this easier?  I don’t know where I would go, but I hate making you uncomfortable yet it seems to be the very thing I am good at.”  Taylor told him. 
     
    Mike looked up at her and said, “You are not going to leave until we know who you are and where you’re going.  I can control myself, as long as you don’t have too many more nightmares.”  Mike winked at her and smiled, but Taylor didn’t feel like smiling back.  She could only think about how hard this was for him, but when she looked at him across the table, she also knew she wanted him.  She knew she didn’t care at this moment whether it was fate or something else.
     
    “I still want to kiss you and take off your clothes, Taylor,” Mike said to her, “but I am going to avoid temptation.  You are getting so close to knowing who you are, and then you will be able to forget this place.” 
     
    Taylor looked at him and said, “Do you think I want to forget this place?  Is that how you think I feel?”  Taylor realized she was being a little hysterical, but she couldn’t help it. 
     
    Mike got up and pulled her to him, “Taylor, I know you don’t want to forget this place, or me.  I am trying hard to make it easier for you to leave when it’s time.”  He kissed her firmly on the lips and pulled away quickly.  “You are a hard woman to leave alone, you know?”  He released her and left the kitchen.
     
    The rest of the day,