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waist to pick my jeans off the floor, reaching in the pocket for a hair tie. I prolong the sensual torment as I gather my hair into a messy bun on top of my head.
    “Lea, if you don’t get your ass in here, I’m going to—”
    His words are cut off as I place my hands on the edge of the tub, capturing his mouth in a devastating kiss. “You’re going to what?” I ask huskily, staring down at him, almost losing the ability to play this erotic vixen when I see how hard it is for him to focus on my eyes instead of my heavy breasts hanging inches away from his face.
    “Enough with the torture,” he pleads, reaching out to steady me as I step into the tub. I settle between his legs and allow him to cup water over me as I sink into his body. “God, I missed you. How are we going to get through two years like this?”
    Part of me hates that he brings reality into this blissful moment. Right now, I don’t want to think about there being a life outside of these four walls. I want it to be Colby and me, enjoying one another. The reality of life can wait.
    “It’ll all be worth it in the end,” I promise him, praying to God that I’m right. Because if we’re not strong enough to get through my last two years of school, I know it will kill me. “Plus, you’ll be so busy soon that you won’t even notice that I’m not here. You just have to promise me that you won’t forget about me when you’re on top of the world.”
    It’s not something I’ve allowed myself to think about, but there have been moments when I’ve worried that he won’t need me once he makes it big. There will be no shortage of starlets and groupies willing and able to warm his bed while I’m being the responsible student.
    “That’ll never happen,” he says curtly. He crooks a finger beneath my chin, tilting my head back so I’m looking into his eyes. “I don’t care how big I get, you’re it for me. Please tell me you’re not already having doubts about us. If you are, I’ll come home right now.”
    I turn on my side, holding onto his arms so I don’t slide away from him in the water. “No, it’s not that. Forget I said anything ,” I mumble, hoping he’ll drop the subject, hating myself for even allowing the doubt to creep into my mind, much less let it pass my lips.
    N either of us can pretend I didn’t put our biggest fear out there, giving it a voice. We sit there, each of us lost in thought, holding onto one another, until the water goes cool, neither of us forcing the topic. Colby pushes me forward, stepping out and reaching over me for two towels. I hug my knees to my chest as I watch him dry off before holding out the other towel to me.
    He dries my body with a tenderness I didn’t know he was capable of and leads me to the bedroom. We slide into the bed and I wish I hadn’t opened my big mouth. Now, we’re tiptoeing around one another, trying desperately to salvage our first night in this magical place.
    As much as I want Colby to make love to me, to push the doubts out of my mind, I begin to fall asleep the moment my head hits the plush mountain of pillows.
    “Go to sleep, baby. Tomorrow, I’m going to show you how wrong you are if you think there’s anything in the world that could make me not need you.” I smile at Colby’s whispered promise, squeezing his fingers as he wraps his arms around my body. Held by the man I’ve loved for years, I sleep the best sleep I have had since the night before he left me to chase his dreams.

Chapter 5
    Colby
    Lea looks like an angel, splayed out on the bed with the morning sun shimmering against her deep red hair. To me, she is that angel. That’s the only way to explain her presence in my life. She likes to tell me that if it wasn’t for me, she would have never come out of her shell, but I like to think that we saved one another that summer day over four years ago. Oddly enough, I doubt either of us realized that simply meeting one another in a parking lot filled with