Part Three

( This section of this story is for adult readers only.)

Jason stood in front of her, aching with desire, and trying to force himself back under control, since Carly had broken their kiss.

"It's too soon," he said "I should have realized that."

Her hand raised to cover her heart, as she let out a few ragged breaths.

His voice was low, as he ground out. "We can wait...as long as you need."

"I'm just scared, for our family. I finally managed to get our little boy back to where he belongs, where he can have the happy, carefree, good childhood we both want for him, and I can't screw that up again...maybe I will, if we go here. I always seem to somehow...when it comes to loving you..."

He moved close to her again, needing to soothe her fears.

He knew she was erratic, she acted then thought, she fought everyone in the world but him. He knew she might do something crazy one day.

He simply didn't care about any of that though. He'd love her either way.

(Don't go changing, to try and please me.
You never let me down before.

Don't imagine you're too familiar
and I don't see you anymore.

I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble.
We never could have come this far.

I took the good times.

I'll take the bad times .
I'll take you just the way you are ) ( Billy Joel)

"I did my part, too, Carly. I could have tried harder to stop you from marrying AJ, or I could have waited, but I just stood by and acted like it was out of my control and like I had to lose you. Like I did on the day you married Sonny. We're here now and I'm not waiting for you to mess up or for the next disaster...let me prove I can love you better than before. Don't think you can lose our family...you never could."

(I need to know that you will

always be
the same old someone that I knew.

What will it take 'till you believe

in me,
the way that I believe in you?) ( Billy Joel)

With a sweet tenderness, he kissed her, tugging her close to him and taking it slow.

He whispered, "I'm yours."

A shiver rocked her body.

Jason moved his mouth to her ear. "I always have been."

( I said I love you

and that's forever.

And this is a promise from my heart.

I could not love you any better,

I love you just the way you are.) ( Billy Joel)

Tears slipped from her eyes as he took her hand and led her to the bed. He shucked out of his shirt. Her hands moved to his jeans and unbuttoned them, after she slid them down, he stepped out of them, kicking them to the side. He sat down, and then he started to undress her.

With every bit of skin he exposed, his heart beat louder and louder and blood rushed away from his head, making it near impossible to think about anything but what it would feel like when he was in her again...what it would be like to have her sleeping curled against him every night now.

When she was naked, Carly cupped both his cheeks and leaned down to give him a soulful kiss. She moaned into his mouth, as his fingers skimmed over her skin, opening her up to him. Nearly right away, she could feel herself shooting to the edge, he could take her there in a minute flat.

She cried out, in a gasp, "I won't hurt you again...I swear."

He stilled and pulled her down to sit on him lap. He stroked her hair. "I know that, Carly. I trust you. Don't you know how much I rely on you...believe in you...love you?"

"Jase..." she said, her tone amazed.

"Oh...Carly..." he couldn't help but kiss her once more and then confessed properly "I'm scared too but I do love you. I just want to be able to show you...to stay with you...to finally be with you again. Have a little faith in me, okay? I won't let us fall apart again."

His hand slid between her thighs and he saw her eyes widen with pleasure. A slow smile curved her lips, and then her head fell back. He leaned over and kissed her breast.

Her hands clutched at him, digging her nails into the skin on his arms. She sighed out the words, "You love me...oh my God...you love me again."

He laid her back on the bed, stood up and stripped off the last piece of his clothes. When his body was over hers, he looked her straight in the eye and said "You're right I do love you but it's not again..." he was inside of her when he added "it's always. I love you always...always...you're mine."

Those words sunk into her and she changed in that moment. She became better, and much more whole than she ever had been before. For then Carly knew she belonged to him, and that he didn't hate that fact, he wanted her to be his, and she was and would be for as long as they lived.

"And you're mine, Jason."