"Damn it, man, I can't believe you! She only has days left and her body is racked with pain and what did you do all night? You were on top of her inflicting more pain!" hissed AJ.
"No, AJ, I was loving her, like she wanted me too! Come into her room and look at her this morning, if you don't believe me. I dare you!"
"If you harmed her in any way, or shortened her life, you'll answer to me, Thomas Boone, friend or not," said AJ as he followed Tom into Adele's room.
"I would expect no less, AJ," Tom informed him. Pushing open the bedroom door with his shoulder, Tom grinned at the blushing woman in the bed, "We have a visitor this morning, darling!"
Adele looked past Tom and saw AJ, she blushed even more and tugged the covers higher trying to hide the fact that she was still naked. She had a glow about her, that was partly to do with the blush on her cheeks but there was also a blooming color there and the joy in her eyes couldn't be denied. She smiled at Tom with love shining from her eyes. Adele almost looked healthy!
"Adele, are you alright?" AJ asked, noticing all the changes in her.
"Very all right, brother," she said with a smile, as she reached out to take the cup of coffee that Tom held out to her, forgetting that she was holding the covers up to cover her nakedness. They fell to her waist and AJ saw her breasts were rosy from being loved and if he wasn't mistaken there was even a hickey on one!
Blushing from his neck to the top of his head he excused himself. Going into the kitchen for a cup of coffee. Adele his levelheaded sister had spent the night in bed with his best friend. This was going to take some getting used to.
"I think we have upset him, Tom," she sighed sadly. Slowly she moved to the edge of the bed looking for her gown, she was still to shy to get up naked in front of her lover.
Tom, bending down, picked up her gown and handed it to her. "Honey, never hide your beauty from me, I enjoy it far too much."
"I wish I could be beautiful for you, if even for the few days that are left to us," she sighed, as she slid her gown over her head and got up from the bed going to the bathroom and then to her closet to dress. Since Tom had not been there, he had no idea that he was witnessing a minor miracle! Yesterday she had been too weak to get out of bed.
"Surely you have more than days, my love, you seem so strong," he replied. "Have you gotten a second opinion?"
"When they sent me home from the hospital, they gave me a week, maybe two. There is no need for a second opinion, Tom; there is nothing more they can do for me. I just want to live my last days with as much dignity as possible. Will you be staying for a while...to get to know Julianna...I mean?!" she asked, not wanting him to think that she was pleading for time with him.
"Yes, I will be here for several weeks if I may impose upon your hospitality," he said, taking her hand and kissing her palm with a look of sadness in his brown eyes.
"You can stay here as long as you like, Tom," her smile blazed across her face as if the sun were shining upon it. With a blush, she dressed quickly as she could in front of him and then linking her arm with his she said, "Shall we go and see if AJ has made breakfast?"
Finding AJ in the kitchen making omelet's they sat at the table. "Adele, are you sure you should be up? You have been too weak up until now to be out of bed."
"I would think that you would be happy I was up and about, AJ, not trying to get me back in bed." Then she looked at Tom and blushed, saying, "Although that has taken on a whole new light now!"
"Adele! What has come over you?" asked AJ, shocked to see his older sister acting like a lovesick teenager.
She giggled, "Well, Tom was over me last night!"
To be continued…