#Chapter 231: Be Careful Who You Trust

Later, Neil holds me just inside the front door of my penthouse. And, well, I might be holding onto him just as hard. After the night we shared, I’m not ready to let him go yet. If I had my way, we would still be in bed, tangled up in each other and lost to the rest of the world. We’d stay there forever. Although, granted, in the light of the new day, things are a bit… tender down there. It’s a pleasant kind of soreness though. A good memory of all the things we’ve done together. Neil cups my face with one hand. He brings my face toward his and his plants soft kisses along my hairline, then down the bridge of my nose, and finally to my lips. His kisses are soft. They aren’t leading to anything like they had been last night and this morning. Instead, they are gentler. An affirmation of what we have done and what we mean to do again. Neil already said that though he would need to be careful, he has no intention of holding us back from each other anymore. Still, those promises are e