"Drink this," Chris urged offering up a steaming mug of tea to Eve as she looked up at him behind puffy blood shot eyes.
"What is it?" Eve questioned wearily exhaustion taking over her as she and Chris were continuing to rehash the nightmare she'd been stuck in for the last couple of years.
"It's something that will calm your nerves," he promised taking a seat at the opposite end of the couch as he pulled her legs into his lap, bringing his hands over her bare feet massaging them gently as he looked to her, "Eve, you have to tell me more about your time with Henry."
"I know," she winced at the thought, "but right now, well now I just can't help but focus on our daughter. I mean she's out there with him…all on her own and I can't protect her."
"Eve, we need to talk about this…really talk about everything that lead up to what happened…" Chris rubbed his hand over the curve of her foot trying to relax her a bit as he took everything in, "tell me again about how things happened."
"I told you when you were gone, he showed up and then I woke up in this place--this house that DV had set up for us. At the time I was confused and it didn't make sense, but then when I realized where I was and who I was with, I knew I needed to escape. DV was paying Henry to keep me locked away, but then when Henry found out I was pregnant, well he figured out he'd had his next cash crop with our baby. Knowing my history and that more than likely you were the child's father, he and DV had some tests run which proved what I knew to be true."
"That the baby you were carrying was ours," Chris reasoned as she offered a tiny nod.
"Who knew that one night could make such a difference in our lives, huh?" she replied sadly, "Even then I couldn't believe how much had happened after that one night. Months went by and DV stopped contacting Henry and when he found out that DV was out of the picture, he started with his own agenda going on and on about how you owed him for walking away. He'd kept an eye on you and took pleasure in telling me time and time again that you hadn't given a second thought to my absence as the woman that had taken my place had convinced you that she was me and that I could care less about you."
"Eve, that's not true," Chris moved in closer to her, pulling her into his arms as he found himself unable to resist the urge to hold her, to be near her at a moment like this when she was revealing the agony that had surrounded her. Holding her completely in his arms, he shifted her in his lap as his dark eyes sought out hers wanting to show her the depths of his love for her, "Yes, I thought she was you. I truly believed that you'd moved on and that you have no interest in revisiting that place we'd gone to with one another after we'd made love. After that night, you seemed so distant, so off limits in your own way and I found myself trying to deal with the twist of fate--pretending that it didn't break my heart to see you with Kevin and then Ian…"
"Ian?" she gave him a strange look, "Who's Ian?"
"He's some loser that you…" he paused before frowning again, "she married. She was so miserable and he promised her the world, but in the end she was more alone than I'd ever seen you…her… She died before I could ever truly tell her that I loved her--you."
"Oh Chris, I'm so sorry you had to go through that," Eve touched his face gently attempting to comfort him when he'd clearly hoped of providing her with some kind of relief. Still, after all this time in having her close to him, it set his soul at ease as he leaned into his touch, turning to press a kiss into her hand.
"Eve, I missed you so very much," he admitted openly as his eyes fell upon her, "I loved you more than I could even begin to explain and when I thought I lost you…oh Eve you have no idea how many times I tried to reach out to you, but time and time again it seemed as though something kept you from seeing me--really seeing who I was--from seeing the man who loved you for so very long…the man who still loves you so very much."
"Oh Chris," Eve breathed wrapping her arms around him as she held him close to her, "I missed you so much. Time and time again you were all that I could think about…all that I could imagine and I lived for the day that we'd be together again like this holding one another and lost in one another's touch."
"Eve," he started feeling so many things going through his mind as she held him.
"Chris, I know that I wasn't always good at telling you how I felt about you, but after we made love, well I knew that I'd missed out on the one thing in my life that I'd always wanted before that moment. When we were together, well it was the first time in my life that I didn't have to pretend. I didn't have to be someone I'm not and I could just love you…just be with you and you wanted me for me…not for what you thought you could turn me into. When we made love, you and I, we felt so very right and after that night my life has never been the same."
"Because of our daughter," Chris questioned after a moment's hesitation.
"It's more than our daughter," Eve argued with him as her eyes sparkled with something Chris couldn't quite place, "I mean sure having her was a miracle in itself considering all it took was one magical night for her to come into this world, but it was more than that. Chris, no man has ever loved me like you have and no one else has been worth fighting for until now. When I had our baby girl, oh Chris, she looked so much like you. When I held her for the first time, I knew that we'd finally found that piece of heaven that had been out of our lives for so many years. She was so perfect and amazing and…"
"Eve, what's her name? When was she born? I wish I'd known about her--about you as I would've fought like hell to find you," Chris confessed thinking of the years that had been taken from them.
"Her name is Sarah and she's beautiful. She was born on June third in 2000. And she has the most beautiful hair about your color and the biggest brown eyes you can imagine as when she looks at you, you can see just how much she loves you. She has this smile that lights up the room when she's in it and when you tuck her into bed at night, well, she has this story that she loves you to read to her over and over again until she falls asleep. You have no idea how I wish we'd been able to have that together, but once we find her, Chris, I know we can start over again," Eve answered with a hint of hope in her voice, "I know that once we rescue her from Henry, then we can have that family we both needed in our lives for so very long."
"Oh Eve, you have no idea how much I want to find her…to know all about our daughter as this changes everything you know," he eased his fingers through her dark hair gingerly.
"I know," she confessed with a soft sigh, "I knew from the moment I found out I was pregnant that you and I would never be the same since our daughter came into our lives."
"I've already missed so much of her life," Chris began sadly his heart breaking as he thought about the circumstances that had fallen upon them, "Eve, how could I not have known all this time?"
"DV and Henry worked very hard to keep me from the world around me," Eve admitted sinking into him, "They locked me away and even after I had our daughter I lived in fear of Henry. Your father is an evil man, Chris and…"
"I know," he nodded seeing the tears that clouded her eyes once again, "Eve, you don't have to tell me this right now if it hurts too much."
"Chris, I tried to escape. You have to understand. Time and time again I fought for a way to get Sarah and I out of there, but he was just too strong…too…"
"Eve, when was the last time you saw Sarah," Chris tried to get her to focus as his eyes searched hers, "Where were you two?"
"Her nanny came over. Henry said he wanted to go out…that he'd had special plans for the two of us and her nanny stopped by to watch her. I'd begged her to do whatever she could to save Sarah. I gave her some money that I'd managed to put aside over the years when Henry wasn't paying attention. She promised me that Sarah would be safe, but then when Henry tried to kill me…"
"Eve, how is it he managed to do all this for so long without anyone knowing?" Chris questioned painfully unsure of how his father could gain so much leverage over her.
"He told me that if I tried to run--if I tried to find you that he'd make sure that you would suffer for it. He had evidence that you'd shot DV and he swore to me that you'd get the death penalty should I try to leave him. He vowed that you and Sarah would suffer if I was out of line and I was terrified…Chris after all the things he did," she looked to the ground, "The ways he forced me to bend at his will…"
"Eve, he didn't…" Chris began as he saw the tears spilling down her face, "Oh God, he did, didn't he?"
"Chris, I didn't have a choice," Eve sobbed choking on her tears, "He hung his ammunition over my head and if I didn't comply to his wishes, then he kept Sarah from me. He'd do things…say things and then act upon them until I had no choice…"
"Oh Eve," he hugged her tightly feeling her pain transfer onto him, "How could I not have been there? How could I not have felt you in so much pain?"
"It wasn't your fault," Eve held onto him allowing herself to shed the tears she'd fought like hell to keep Henry from seeing time and time again when he'd hurt her, "When he touched me, I tried to pretend I wasn't there…that it wasn't me and that I was somewhere else…somewhere with you and Sarah and we were a family and we were safe. We were in a place where Henry couldn't touch us ever again and it was those thoughts of you that got me through the darkest hours."
"He had no right to touch you like that," Chris's jaw clenched in anger, "He had no business hurting you or Sarah."
"Chris, I'm free now and we have to find Sarah," Eve explained desperately, "When we have her again only then will Henry be out of our lives."
"He's going to pay for this," Chris declared feeling his anger surge through him at the thought of what his father had done to the woman he loved, "I'm not going to let him get away with this."
"Chris, all I care about is finding our daughter. Nothing else matters but having her and being with you…"
"Henry's not going to get away with any of this Eve," he cupped her face in his hands kissing her tenderly, "I promise you that."
She kissed him in response tasting the sweetness of his lips as her arms curled around him, "I believe you, Chris. I know we can find our daughter and be happy with one another."
"That's all I've ever wanted for us," Chris confessed squeezing her against him as his kisses grew in intensity. His fingers fanned out over her spine as he cupped her against him relishing in the feel of her against him as she shifted in his lap. His tongue tasted and teased hers as her swelled lips parted inviting him to sample more of her as a slow whimper rose from deep inside her causing her to tremble as the moment expanded between them.
"Chris," she cried out his name feeling his hands upon her hips as their eyes connected and his breath caught in his throat as he looked to her seeing the desire burning behind her eyes. Her fingers curled into his hair drawing him in against her as the warmth of her body, ignited the passion that had lay dormant inside of him for so very long in her absence, "I need you…"
"Eve," he turned her in his arms laying her back on the sofa as his body covered hers melding into her as he could feel the rapid beating of her heart beneath his. Her kisses intoxicated him, reaching deep into his core as his palm eased up over her soft curves remembering how she'd managed to make him feel so very alive time and time again in the past. Her fingers pressed in over the center of his chest tugging at the material of his shirt as their eyes connected once again and she spoke up in a low, throaty whisper.
"Make love to me, Chris," she pleaded with him as her hands dipped down over his waist easing the material of his shirt up over his body, "please…"
"Eve, you have no idea how long I've waited to be able to hold you like this again," he confessed slipping out of his shirt before closing in on her once more as his heart flooded with love for her, "I've missed you so very much and I've needed you for so long…"
"I dreamt about what it would be like to be near you again…to taste you and drink you in like I did the night we came together before," she offered up in a sultry tone as his fingers tapered off over the edge of the scrubs he'd had her get dressed in when they'd left the hospital earlier, "Now that I've found you, I don't ever want to let go of that…"
"Eve, I just…I don't want to rush you," Chris whispered over her lips thinking of all she'd been through because of his father. The thought made him shudder as he imagined Henry taking advantage of Eve, forcing her to bend at his will for his own sadistic pleasure as he taunted her with the threat of his freedom and Sarah's life. Instantly his body tightened as he pulled away from the kiss. "Eve, I can't do this now knowing how much you suffered because of me…"
"Chris, it was because of you that I'm still alive," she leaned up into him capturing his lips in another kiss, "When he started drugging me, well I tried to fight him, but then when he dumped my body…Chris, I thought I'd reached the end, but there you were like my guardian angel bringing my back to life…back to believing that miracles can happen and here you are," her fingers eased over the warm, muscular planes of his chest, "I can feel you…really feel you and I'm so afraid if I don't touch you, don't lose myself in you that this will be nothing more than a dream and I'll close my eyes for a second and it'll all end…that my life will return to what it was when Henry left me to die…please…Chris, don't make me go back to that."
"Eve, it's just," he paused memorizing her beautiful features as his hand eased over her soft skin memorizing every inch of her as his heart filled with love for her. Suddenly all the time he'd spent without her seemed irrelevant as in having her in his arms once again made life worth living. All the nonsense that had gone on in Port Charles was nothing more than a blip in the back of his mind as in his arms he held the most wonderful woman in the world. She'd come back to his life and that in itself was reason to hold on to her with all he had. He'd finally found a reason to keep going on and as he gazed down at her, bringing his finger tip over the center of her lush lips as she pressed a tiny kiss upon him, he realized that tonight was about starting over--about making up for the mistakes that had driven them away from one another.
"Chris please…" she breathed heatedly against his touch, "Tonight I want to be lost in your arms, wrapped up in the safety of your love…"
"I want to love you so much," he leaned down kissing her tenderly, "but this time, well this time, let's do this the right way," he decided reluctantly moving off of her before bending down and scooping her up into his arms as he carried her into one of the bedrooms.
Feeling the wild racing of his heart as he set her down on the bed before him, his eyes feasted upon her as he realized that this was the moment he'd waited a lifetime for. To feel her again and hold her and prove to her that she was the only woman in his life had been a dream that time and time again had haunted him from the moment he'd thought he'd lost her. Tonight he was going to put those dreams to life as he vowed to give his all to the only woman who'd ever truly touched his heart. Leaning in over her, he captured her lips in a soft, tender kiss before his finger tips teased in over the soft lines of her body hidden beneath the thin top she'd been wearing. Even after all the obvious abuse she'd taken, she still managed to excite him in ways he couldn't even begin to explain.
Chris eased the shirt up over her stomach, carefully revealing her soft skin to him as he bent down, drawing his lips over her abdomen as he traced patterns over her skin with mouth trying to memorize every inch of her. His hands bunched up the fabric of the top she'd been wearing as he felt her nails slide over his shoulder in a tantalizing motion.
A gasp spilled over Eve as his mouth moved over her breastbone tasting her silken curves as she arched up towards him allowing him to discard the shirt revealing her completely to his hungry eyes. Her arms fell to her sides as Chris watched her chest rise and fall in anticipation of his touch, but instead of reaching out and exploring her newly exposed skin, he collected her in his arms, crashing his mouth against hers in a hungry kiss as the heat of her body struck up against his causing his body to ignite with a frantic need as they sank back into the pillow beneath her.
"I love you," he whispered tenderly feeling her fingers slide through his hair as their kiss ended and he remained a breath away from her gazing down into her dark eyes, "I've always loved you, Eve."
"I love you," she confessed in a soft tone as her heart beat with his in the same rhythm of love that had surrounded them the first time they'd given into passion with one another, "I was a fool to believe that I could go through this life without embracing that with you. You are everything I ever dreamt of and more, Chris."
"Oh Eve," he captured her mouth again unable to contain himself as their kisses grew in intensity. His hands searched and explored every irresistible inch of her as he palmed her breast in his hand, loving the sounds of her pleasure rising with each skilled caress he'd made over her excited skin. How he could've imagined living a life without such exquisite pleasures was beyond his comprehension as his lips dropped down over her body, tasting her fullness as he cupped her body up to his eager kisses.
Eve cried out as her fingers sank into the bed, bunching up the fabric of the blankets beneath her as his tongue swept over her aching peak again and again as her need expanded with each torturous movement of his mouth over her. Her head dropped back as he turned his attention to the unattended mound lavishing it with the same teasing touch as her body ached for release.
"Chris," she cried out his name pinching the blanket between her fingers until she found herself unable to contain the passion he'd awakened in her. Her arms wrapped around his body, easing over his spine as she offered herself to him more completely. He accepted her invitation to explore her body as his mouth tapered off over her breastbone once more, teasing over her naval before his finger tips slipped in beneath the loose fitting pants she'd been wearing.
With one quick tug, Eve felt the cool air press down upon her as the vulnerability of the moment over her. Chris had eased down to the bottom of the bed, taking the remainder of clothing she'd been wearing with him as his eyes fell upon her, feasting upon every alluring inch of her. Her heart fluttered in her chest as she watched him unbuckle his belt before shedding his pants and boxers as he revealed himself to her once more. Suddenly all her dreams and memories about their one night together paled in comparison to what she was feeling in a moment like this as he stood before her in his naked perfection. Crawling up on her knees, she moved to the edge of the bed, reaching out to touch him, to gently stroke his length as her lips placed butterfly kisses upon his aching need for her.
"Eve," he sucked in a sharp breath feeling her breath upon him as his need for her intensified as she continued to caress his hardened length, "baby…"
"I need you, Chris," she murmured against him as his fingers dipped into her hair drawing her up on her knees completely before his mouth collected a hungry kiss from her. Wrapping her up in his arms as they tumbled back onto the bed, his body covered hers, sparks igniting at the feel of the skin to skin contact between them as her leg brushed up against his thigh urging them toward completion as their eyes connected once more.
"Eve, I love you so much," he whispered nibbling on her lower lip as she wrapped her legs around him inviting him to be one with her after so very long. Even now as the warmth of her surrounded him, the moment felt surreal as he'd long ago lost sight of such magnificent dreams of her, but as he slowly pressed himself inside of her, burying himself in her erotic heat, a soft groan spilled over his lips as the reality of their union pressed upon them.
"Chris," she cried out his name sinking her nails into his excited flesh as her head arched back in pleasure as she accepted him fully within her warmth. He buried himself deep within her, stilling himself as he fought to stay in control, but as his eyes found hers, he realized there would be no controlling the way she'd effected him as he withdrew from her body, crashing home again as they were together as one. Her legs tightened around him, urging him to stay with her as another soft whimper burst from her parted lips.
"I love you," he groaned capturing her soft cries of passion as they delved into pleasure with one another, reminding themselves over and over again of the love that had slipped away from them the first time around. Now as he held her, sank into her making love to her with all that he had, he realized that he'd never be able to be without her again. He'd never known a love as pure and real as the one he'd found inside of her. Suddenly as her world spiraled out of control, Chris was carried away with her, thrusting one last time as he lost himself to the magic of the moment their union had given them and it was in that instant as he kissed her, held her in his arms as her tremors of passion died down, that he realized he'd never be complete again without her.
"I love you," she breathed in slow, shallow pants as her legs and arms surrounded him refusing to let go of the union between them as he remained inside of her holding onto her as if he'd never let go.
"Eve, I promise you that I'm always going to love you," he whispered as his lips pressed over her forehead, down to her cheekbones, to the tip of her nose before collecting her mouth in a tender kiss. Slowly he rolled onto his back taking her with him as he held her in his arms thinking about the love they'd made with one another and it was in that instant he found a sense of inner peace and as she hugged him tightly drifting off to sleep in his arms, he promised himself that he'd find a way to make things right for their family at any cost as in having Eve back with him, life was worth fighting for again and this time, he wouldn't back down from the challenge that Henry Ramsey had provided him with. Now as his gaze drifted down to Eve as her eyelashes fluttered in her sleep, he vowed that he'd find a way to make her feel safe again. Henry would pay and then he'd do everything in his power to make Eve and Sarah's life the best it could be. That much he was sure of.
"What is it?" Eve questioned wearily exhaustion taking over her as she and Chris were continuing to rehash the nightmare she'd been stuck in for the last couple of years.
"It's something that will calm your nerves," he promised taking a seat at the opposite end of the couch as he pulled her legs into his lap, bringing his hands over her bare feet massaging them gently as he looked to her, "Eve, you have to tell me more about your time with Henry."
"I know," she winced at the thought, "but right now, well now I just can't help but focus on our daughter. I mean she's out there with him…all on her own and I can't protect her."
"Eve, we need to talk about this…really talk about everything that lead up to what happened…" Chris rubbed his hand over the curve of her foot trying to relax her a bit as he took everything in, "tell me again about how things happened."
"I told you when you were gone, he showed up and then I woke up in this place--this house that DV had set up for us. At the time I was confused and it didn't make sense, but then when I realized where I was and who I was with, I knew I needed to escape. DV was paying Henry to keep me locked away, but then when Henry found out I was pregnant, well he figured out he'd had his next cash crop with our baby. Knowing my history and that more than likely you were the child's father, he and DV had some tests run which proved what I knew to be true."
"That the baby you were carrying was ours," Chris reasoned as she offered a tiny nod.
"Who knew that one night could make such a difference in our lives, huh?" she replied sadly, "Even then I couldn't believe how much had happened after that one night. Months went by and DV stopped contacting Henry and when he found out that DV was out of the picture, he started with his own agenda going on and on about how you owed him for walking away. He'd kept an eye on you and took pleasure in telling me time and time again that you hadn't given a second thought to my absence as the woman that had taken my place had convinced you that she was me and that I could care less about you."
"Eve, that's not true," Chris moved in closer to her, pulling her into his arms as he found himself unable to resist the urge to hold her, to be near her at a moment like this when she was revealing the agony that had surrounded her. Holding her completely in his arms, he shifted her in his lap as his dark eyes sought out hers wanting to show her the depths of his love for her, "Yes, I thought she was you. I truly believed that you'd moved on and that you have no interest in revisiting that place we'd gone to with one another after we'd made love. After that night, you seemed so distant, so off limits in your own way and I found myself trying to deal with the twist of fate--pretending that it didn't break my heart to see you with Kevin and then Ian…"
"Ian?" she gave him a strange look, "Who's Ian?"
"He's some loser that you…" he paused before frowning again, "she married. She was so miserable and he promised her the world, but in the end she was more alone than I'd ever seen you…her… She died before I could ever truly tell her that I loved her--you."
"Oh Chris, I'm so sorry you had to go through that," Eve touched his face gently attempting to comfort him when he'd clearly hoped of providing her with some kind of relief. Still, after all this time in having her close to him, it set his soul at ease as he leaned into his touch, turning to press a kiss into her hand.
"Eve, I missed you so very much," he admitted openly as his eyes fell upon her, "I loved you more than I could even begin to explain and when I thought I lost you…oh Eve you have no idea how many times I tried to reach out to you, but time and time again it seemed as though something kept you from seeing me--really seeing who I was--from seeing the man who loved you for so very long…the man who still loves you so very much."
"Oh Chris," Eve breathed wrapping her arms around him as she held him close to her, "I missed you so much. Time and time again you were all that I could think about…all that I could imagine and I lived for the day that we'd be together again like this holding one another and lost in one another's touch."
"Eve," he started feeling so many things going through his mind as she held him.
"Chris, I know that I wasn't always good at telling you how I felt about you, but after we made love, well I knew that I'd missed out on the one thing in my life that I'd always wanted before that moment. When we were together, well it was the first time in my life that I didn't have to pretend. I didn't have to be someone I'm not and I could just love you…just be with you and you wanted me for me…not for what you thought you could turn me into. When we made love, you and I, we felt so very right and after that night my life has never been the same."
"Because of our daughter," Chris questioned after a moment's hesitation.
"It's more than our daughter," Eve argued with him as her eyes sparkled with something Chris couldn't quite place, "I mean sure having her was a miracle in itself considering all it took was one magical night for her to come into this world, but it was more than that. Chris, no man has ever loved me like you have and no one else has been worth fighting for until now. When I had our baby girl, oh Chris, she looked so much like you. When I held her for the first time, I knew that we'd finally found that piece of heaven that had been out of our lives for so many years. She was so perfect and amazing and…"
"Eve, what's her name? When was she born? I wish I'd known about her--about you as I would've fought like hell to find you," Chris confessed thinking of the years that had been taken from them.
"Her name is Sarah and she's beautiful. She was born on June third in 2000. And she has the most beautiful hair about your color and the biggest brown eyes you can imagine as when she looks at you, you can see just how much she loves you. She has this smile that lights up the room when she's in it and when you tuck her into bed at night, well, she has this story that she loves you to read to her over and over again until she falls asleep. You have no idea how I wish we'd been able to have that together, but once we find her, Chris, I know we can start over again," Eve answered with a hint of hope in her voice, "I know that once we rescue her from Henry, then we can have that family we both needed in our lives for so very long."
"Oh Eve, you have no idea how much I want to find her…to know all about our daughter as this changes everything you know," he eased his fingers through her dark hair gingerly.
"I know," she confessed with a soft sigh, "I knew from the moment I found out I was pregnant that you and I would never be the same since our daughter came into our lives."
"I've already missed so much of her life," Chris began sadly his heart breaking as he thought about the circumstances that had fallen upon them, "Eve, how could I not have known all this time?"
"DV and Henry worked very hard to keep me from the world around me," Eve admitted sinking into him, "They locked me away and even after I had our daughter I lived in fear of Henry. Your father is an evil man, Chris and…"
"I know," he nodded seeing the tears that clouded her eyes once again, "Eve, you don't have to tell me this right now if it hurts too much."
"Chris, I tried to escape. You have to understand. Time and time again I fought for a way to get Sarah and I out of there, but he was just too strong…too…"
"Eve, when was the last time you saw Sarah," Chris tried to get her to focus as his eyes searched hers, "Where were you two?"
"Her nanny came over. Henry said he wanted to go out…that he'd had special plans for the two of us and her nanny stopped by to watch her. I'd begged her to do whatever she could to save Sarah. I gave her some money that I'd managed to put aside over the years when Henry wasn't paying attention. She promised me that Sarah would be safe, but then when Henry tried to kill me…"
"Eve, how is it he managed to do all this for so long without anyone knowing?" Chris questioned painfully unsure of how his father could gain so much leverage over her.
"He told me that if I tried to run--if I tried to find you that he'd make sure that you would suffer for it. He had evidence that you'd shot DV and he swore to me that you'd get the death penalty should I try to leave him. He vowed that you and Sarah would suffer if I was out of line and I was terrified…Chris after all the things he did," she looked to the ground, "The ways he forced me to bend at his will…"
"Eve, he didn't…" Chris began as he saw the tears spilling down her face, "Oh God, he did, didn't he?"
"Chris, I didn't have a choice," Eve sobbed choking on her tears, "He hung his ammunition over my head and if I didn't comply to his wishes, then he kept Sarah from me. He'd do things…say things and then act upon them until I had no choice…"
"Oh Eve," he hugged her tightly feeling her pain transfer onto him, "How could I not have been there? How could I not have felt you in so much pain?"
"It wasn't your fault," Eve held onto him allowing herself to shed the tears she'd fought like hell to keep Henry from seeing time and time again when he'd hurt her, "When he touched me, I tried to pretend I wasn't there…that it wasn't me and that I was somewhere else…somewhere with you and Sarah and we were a family and we were safe. We were in a place where Henry couldn't touch us ever again and it was those thoughts of you that got me through the darkest hours."
"He had no right to touch you like that," Chris's jaw clenched in anger, "He had no business hurting you or Sarah."
"Chris, I'm free now and we have to find Sarah," Eve explained desperately, "When we have her again only then will Henry be out of our lives."
"He's going to pay for this," Chris declared feeling his anger surge through him at the thought of what his father had done to the woman he loved, "I'm not going to let him get away with this."
"Chris, all I care about is finding our daughter. Nothing else matters but having her and being with you…"
"Henry's not going to get away with any of this Eve," he cupped her face in his hands kissing her tenderly, "I promise you that."
She kissed him in response tasting the sweetness of his lips as her arms curled around him, "I believe you, Chris. I know we can find our daughter and be happy with one another."
"That's all I've ever wanted for us," Chris confessed squeezing her against him as his kisses grew in intensity. His fingers fanned out over her spine as he cupped her against him relishing in the feel of her against him as she shifted in his lap. His tongue tasted and teased hers as her swelled lips parted inviting him to sample more of her as a slow whimper rose from deep inside her causing her to tremble as the moment expanded between them.
"Chris," she cried out his name feeling his hands upon her hips as their eyes connected and his breath caught in his throat as he looked to her seeing the desire burning behind her eyes. Her fingers curled into his hair drawing him in against her as the warmth of her body, ignited the passion that had lay dormant inside of him for so very long in her absence, "I need you…"
"Eve," he turned her in his arms laying her back on the sofa as his body covered hers melding into her as he could feel the rapid beating of her heart beneath his. Her kisses intoxicated him, reaching deep into his core as his palm eased up over her soft curves remembering how she'd managed to make him feel so very alive time and time again in the past. Her fingers pressed in over the center of his chest tugging at the material of his shirt as their eyes connected once again and she spoke up in a low, throaty whisper.
"Make love to me, Chris," she pleaded with him as her hands dipped down over his waist easing the material of his shirt up over his body, "please…"
"Eve, you have no idea how long I've waited to be able to hold you like this again," he confessed slipping out of his shirt before closing in on her once more as his heart flooded with love for her, "I've missed you so very much and I've needed you for so long…"
"I dreamt about what it would be like to be near you again…to taste you and drink you in like I did the night we came together before," she offered up in a sultry tone as his fingers tapered off over the edge of the scrubs he'd had her get dressed in when they'd left the hospital earlier, "Now that I've found you, I don't ever want to let go of that…"
"Eve, I just…I don't want to rush you," Chris whispered over her lips thinking of all she'd been through because of his father. The thought made him shudder as he imagined Henry taking advantage of Eve, forcing her to bend at his will for his own sadistic pleasure as he taunted her with the threat of his freedom and Sarah's life. Instantly his body tightened as he pulled away from the kiss. "Eve, I can't do this now knowing how much you suffered because of me…"
"Chris, it was because of you that I'm still alive," she leaned up into him capturing his lips in another kiss, "When he started drugging me, well I tried to fight him, but then when he dumped my body…Chris, I thought I'd reached the end, but there you were like my guardian angel bringing my back to life…back to believing that miracles can happen and here you are," her fingers eased over the warm, muscular planes of his chest, "I can feel you…really feel you and I'm so afraid if I don't touch you, don't lose myself in you that this will be nothing more than a dream and I'll close my eyes for a second and it'll all end…that my life will return to what it was when Henry left me to die…please…Chris, don't make me go back to that."
"Eve, it's just," he paused memorizing her beautiful features as his hand eased over her soft skin memorizing every inch of her as his heart filled with love for her. Suddenly all the time he'd spent without her seemed irrelevant as in having her in his arms once again made life worth living. All the nonsense that had gone on in Port Charles was nothing more than a blip in the back of his mind as in his arms he held the most wonderful woman in the world. She'd come back to his life and that in itself was reason to hold on to her with all he had. He'd finally found a reason to keep going on and as he gazed down at her, bringing his finger tip over the center of her lush lips as she pressed a tiny kiss upon him, he realized that tonight was about starting over--about making up for the mistakes that had driven them away from one another.
"Chris please…" she breathed heatedly against his touch, "Tonight I want to be lost in your arms, wrapped up in the safety of your love…"
"I want to love you so much," he leaned down kissing her tenderly, "but this time, well this time, let's do this the right way," he decided reluctantly moving off of her before bending down and scooping her up into his arms as he carried her into one of the bedrooms.
Feeling the wild racing of his heart as he set her down on the bed before him, his eyes feasted upon her as he realized that this was the moment he'd waited a lifetime for. To feel her again and hold her and prove to her that she was the only woman in his life had been a dream that time and time again had haunted him from the moment he'd thought he'd lost her. Tonight he was going to put those dreams to life as he vowed to give his all to the only woman who'd ever truly touched his heart. Leaning in over her, he captured her lips in a soft, tender kiss before his finger tips teased in over the soft lines of her body hidden beneath the thin top she'd been wearing. Even after all the obvious abuse she'd taken, she still managed to excite him in ways he couldn't even begin to explain.
Chris eased the shirt up over her stomach, carefully revealing her soft skin to him as he bent down, drawing his lips over her abdomen as he traced patterns over her skin with mouth trying to memorize every inch of her. His hands bunched up the fabric of the top she'd been wearing as he felt her nails slide over his shoulder in a tantalizing motion.
A gasp spilled over Eve as his mouth moved over her breastbone tasting her silken curves as she arched up towards him allowing him to discard the shirt revealing her completely to his hungry eyes. Her arms fell to her sides as Chris watched her chest rise and fall in anticipation of his touch, but instead of reaching out and exploring her newly exposed skin, he collected her in his arms, crashing his mouth against hers in a hungry kiss as the heat of her body struck up against his causing his body to ignite with a frantic need as they sank back into the pillow beneath her.
"I love you," he whispered tenderly feeling her fingers slide through his hair as their kiss ended and he remained a breath away from her gazing down into her dark eyes, "I've always loved you, Eve."
"I love you," she confessed in a soft tone as her heart beat with his in the same rhythm of love that had surrounded them the first time they'd given into passion with one another, "I was a fool to believe that I could go through this life without embracing that with you. You are everything I ever dreamt of and more, Chris."
"Oh Eve," he captured her mouth again unable to contain himself as their kisses grew in intensity. His hands searched and explored every irresistible inch of her as he palmed her breast in his hand, loving the sounds of her pleasure rising with each skilled caress he'd made over her excited skin. How he could've imagined living a life without such exquisite pleasures was beyond his comprehension as his lips dropped down over her body, tasting her fullness as he cupped her body up to his eager kisses.
Eve cried out as her fingers sank into the bed, bunching up the fabric of the blankets beneath her as his tongue swept over her aching peak again and again as her need expanded with each torturous movement of his mouth over her. Her head dropped back as he turned his attention to the unattended mound lavishing it with the same teasing touch as her body ached for release.
"Chris," she cried out his name pinching the blanket between her fingers until she found herself unable to contain the passion he'd awakened in her. Her arms wrapped around his body, easing over his spine as she offered herself to him more completely. He accepted her invitation to explore her body as his mouth tapered off over her breastbone once more, teasing over her naval before his finger tips slipped in beneath the loose fitting pants she'd been wearing.
With one quick tug, Eve felt the cool air press down upon her as the vulnerability of the moment over her. Chris had eased down to the bottom of the bed, taking the remainder of clothing she'd been wearing with him as his eyes fell upon her, feasting upon every alluring inch of her. Her heart fluttered in her chest as she watched him unbuckle his belt before shedding his pants and boxers as he revealed himself to her once more. Suddenly all her dreams and memories about their one night together paled in comparison to what she was feeling in a moment like this as he stood before her in his naked perfection. Crawling up on her knees, she moved to the edge of the bed, reaching out to touch him, to gently stroke his length as her lips placed butterfly kisses upon his aching need for her.
"Eve," he sucked in a sharp breath feeling her breath upon him as his need for her intensified as she continued to caress his hardened length, "baby…"
"I need you, Chris," she murmured against him as his fingers dipped into her hair drawing her up on her knees completely before his mouth collected a hungry kiss from her. Wrapping her up in his arms as they tumbled back onto the bed, his body covered hers, sparks igniting at the feel of the skin to skin contact between them as her leg brushed up against his thigh urging them toward completion as their eyes connected once more.
"Eve, I love you so much," he whispered nibbling on her lower lip as she wrapped her legs around him inviting him to be one with her after so very long. Even now as the warmth of her surrounded him, the moment felt surreal as he'd long ago lost sight of such magnificent dreams of her, but as he slowly pressed himself inside of her, burying himself in her erotic heat, a soft groan spilled over his lips as the reality of their union pressed upon them.
"Chris," she cried out his name sinking her nails into his excited flesh as her head arched back in pleasure as she accepted him fully within her warmth. He buried himself deep within her, stilling himself as he fought to stay in control, but as his eyes found hers, he realized there would be no controlling the way she'd effected him as he withdrew from her body, crashing home again as they were together as one. Her legs tightened around him, urging him to stay with her as another soft whimper burst from her parted lips.
"I love you," he groaned capturing her soft cries of passion as they delved into pleasure with one another, reminding themselves over and over again of the love that had slipped away from them the first time around. Now as he held her, sank into her making love to her with all that he had, he realized that he'd never be able to be without her again. He'd never known a love as pure and real as the one he'd found inside of her. Suddenly as her world spiraled out of control, Chris was carried away with her, thrusting one last time as he lost himself to the magic of the moment their union had given them and it was in that instant as he kissed her, held her in his arms as her tremors of passion died down, that he realized he'd never be complete again without her.
"I love you," she breathed in slow, shallow pants as her legs and arms surrounded him refusing to let go of the union between them as he remained inside of her holding onto her as if he'd never let go.
"Eve, I promise you that I'm always going to love you," he whispered as his lips pressed over her forehead, down to her cheekbones, to the tip of her nose before collecting her mouth in a tender kiss. Slowly he rolled onto his back taking her with him as he held her in his arms thinking about the love they'd made with one another and it was in that instant he found a sense of inner peace and as she hugged him tightly drifting off to sleep in his arms, he promised himself that he'd find a way to make things right for their family at any cost as in having Eve back with him, life was worth fighting for again and this time, he wouldn't back down from the challenge that Henry Ramsey had provided him with. Now as his gaze drifted down to Eve as her eyelashes fluttered in her sleep, he vowed that he'd find a way to make her feel safe again. Henry would pay and then he'd do everything in his power to make Eve and Sarah's life the best it could be. That much he was sure of.