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be a few minutes more while I tended to the gash on my head.
    “Julia…?” I whispered as I pushed open my bedroom door. I moved to the bed, but she wasn’t there.
    I walked back to the living room and found her laying back on the couch, covered up to her chin, so I went to kneel beside her. “I’m sorry it took me a while to find it…”
    She looked at me and gasped. “Oh my God, Ryan! What happened?”
    “I bashed my head on the hatchback.”
    Her hand came up to my forehead and she frowned. “It looks bad. Let’s go into the kitchen so I can clean it up. You may need stitches.” The concern in her voice was clear. “Come on.” She got up and I followed her.
    Julia motioned for me to sit down on a chair and then turned on the light over the sink. Julia arranged the kitchen when we unpacked so knew her way around. She took a towel out of the drawer and wet it before dabbing at the cut.
    I winced at the pain. “Sorry, sweetie.”
    She worked to clean the wound, but all I could do was stare at her breasts rising and falling in an even rhythm with her breathing. Her breasts that not fifteen minutes before had been bare and underneath my tongue.
    I felt my body spring back to life as I let my thoughts wander.
    “It doesn’t look like you’ll need stitches, but you should have a butterfly bandage. Do you have any?” she asked.
    “I think in this box.” I shoved it toward her. “I thought I was the doctor here, but you’re doing a damn good job.” I smiled up at her as she placed the bandage on my forehead and placed a kiss next to it. Her lips felt so soft and warm against my skin.
    My hands moved up to her hips and I drew her closer to me, tilting my head up to nuzzle her chin with my nose as she stood in front of me. “Hey…” I said softly
    “Ryan…we should sleep. You have an important day tomorrow, and you’re injured.” She leaned her head on mine and it felt like the most natural thing in the world to have her here, in my arms, in my life…in my heart. Her hand fluttered along my jaw.
    My head was starting to throb. As if she read my mind, she reached in the box behind me on the table, found some Tylenol and handed it to me. She pulled away from me to get a glass of water.
    I put two pills in my mouth and swallowed. “You always take such good care of me, baby.” Setting the glass down, I pulled her to stand between my legs and wrapped her in my arms.
    “Listen, Julia…the interruption just now was the biggest case of bad timing in my life, but I need you to trust me. What’s happening here is really us, okay? I don’t want the light of day seeing you pull away from this.”
    She nodded silently and kissed me softly. When she moved away, my hands drew her back closer and I took her mouth harder, my tongue sliding into the warm recesses of her mouth as she opened to me. We kissed again until finally she pulled away.
    “You need sleep, Ryan, okay?” I sighed and dropped my forehead to her shoulder.
    “Will you sleep with me if I promise to be good?” I smiled up at her, but felt the sadness in my heart as I looked at the clock on the stove. It was 2:37 and she would need to leave by 7:30. My throat tightened as I held her close. I felt a huge loss at not being able to make love to her as I wanted, but more, the loss of her coming departure with all this uncertainty between us left a hole in my chest.
    “Yeah, ok. I’m really going to miss you.”
    I pulled her close again and rubbed my hands up and down her back as her arms wrapped around my shoulders in a tight hug. It felt so great to hold her like this and know she wouldn’t pull away. That she allowed me to touch her as a lover and not just a friend.
    “Missing you is…I can’t even talk about it. There are no words for how much it hurts.”
    I took her hand and shut off the light. She followed me down the hall to my room and we crawled into bed together. I reached for her under the covers and pulled her close. She snuggled