Chapter 124

Claire's POV Theo fucked the living daylights out of me and he didn't look like he was stopping anytime soon. He gave me a minute to catch my breath as his mouth found mine again and again, each kiss carrying the weight of everything we'd almost lost. I could taste his relief, his love, his absolute devotion in the way his lips moved against mine. "I love you," he murmured, his voice rough with emotion as his hands began the slow process of reacquainting themselves with my body. "More than I've ever loved anyone else Claire, more than life itself." The words sent shivers through my entire system, but it was the way he touched me—with reverence, with worship, with the kind of desperate gratitude that spoke of a man who'd thought he'd lost everything—that made something deep inside my chest begin to crack open. When he moved above me again, when our bodies joined with the perfect synchronization, the physical sensation was almost secondary to the emotional explosion happening in my heart