She pulls back the door, and his eyes fall on the towel she is wearing. Breathe Robert, Breathe, he commands himself.

"Robert," she sighs, and he follows her inside her apartment. His eyes were just as magnetic now as they were then and she wonders if there will ever come a day when she can look at him and not feel as if he was the beginning and the end of her.

"Anna," he says.

For a moment, it almost seemed as if time literally stood still. She must be imagining things. He is not really looking at her as he used to…is he.

"Are you okay? You look a little…I don't know, out of sorts."

He fumbled with his words and she could see a flush of color in his cheeks…"Are you blushing Scorpio," she teased.

He smiles…God, how she wishes he would not do that. No woman with a pulse could ever resist the temptation in his smile. She was not immune.

"You still take my breath away," he whispers, his hands gripping her waist as he pulls her against him. His fingers skim through her wet hair as he looks at her…memories of their wedding flashing before him as he brushes his lips softly against hers.

"Robert," she gasps, her heart beating rapidly against her rib-cage. She knows she should stop him…It was not that long ago when he was telling her things could never be like they used to…he was married. "What's going on," she forces herself to ask.

"I built this entire life without you just to prove to myself and everyone else that I don't love you anymore... don't need you... don't crave you...don't miss you..."

"I know," she says. "You made that abundantly clear when we finally saw each other again."

"But it was lie Luv…every single word. I tried to build that life because I thought it would make me believe it…make me miss you less. I cannot do it anymore. I cannot stop loving you. Believe me I have tried and failed for seven years."

"Oh Robert," she says, and this time when he kisses her, it is with a fire she thought was gone forever. She knows she does not have to say it but she finds herself wanting to anyways. "I love you so much Robert. You have no idea how much I hate myself for everything I did to you…to our marriage."

"I forgive you Luv," he whispers, and she feels the towel fall to her feet…his lips on her neck as he lifts her off the ground.

"Are you sure," she asks him. She needs to know he will not wake up tomorrow with regrets. It would kill her if he did.

"I think I've been sure since the first time I saw you again. I realized then that the life I build did not make me immune to all the love that you were forcing me to feel again. That's why I tried to hold on to the hate…If I let that go then what was left?"

"Love Robert…Only love."

His kisses were electric as he held her in his arms…her body remembering every touch even before he was inside her. The first time they made love again, it was desperate and hurried. He kissed her as if he was dying of thirst and she was the water. The second time they made love, It was slow and sensual. It was as if he wanted to memorize every touch. The third time they made love, it was intense. It was just as it had always been between them…love you could not live without. It did not matter whether it was wrong or if there too much water under the bridge…it only mattered that their hearts had finally found their home.

The End

Last Edit: Jul 20, 2018 at 11:49pm by Sharon-HBSFan