Eventually, though, we have to break apart to come up for air, our mouths separating to gasp for oxygen.
“This…this is my favorite place in the world, being in bed with you,” I tell Eden as I sweep a strand of hair from her face. It’s so beautiful and silky that I wrap it around my finger.
“Not the cage?” Eden asks.
“What cage?” I ask before I shake my head realizing she means where I fight, not that I can remember a recent fight... “Sorry. Yeah, this is much better than a bloody, sweaty cage.” That’s all I actually remember about it. Oh, and pain. A lot of pain from the hits my body takes.
“I think I’m going to cut back on training,” I admit to Eden.
“Really?” she asks, her dark chocolate eyes wide with surprise and what looks like hope.
“Yeah. I may not even take another fight. After what happened, it’s hard to think that the risks outweigh the rewards anymore.”
“But you love fighting,” Eden says, running her fingertips down my jaw.
“Do I? I can’t remember why.”
Sighing heavily, she says, “It’ll come back to you.”
“Maybe. Maybe not. I feel…different now. Like I want to do something else. You know, things I’ve missed out on.”
“That’s…that’s really great to hear,” Eden says, her eyes filling with moisture.
“Is it? Is that what you want me to do?” I ask, reaching up with my thumb to swipe away the tear on her cheek. “Don’t cry, baby. You’re breaking my heart.”
“I wish we could just stay here like this forever,” Eden admits as she holds my eyes with hers that are filled with so much love in them it makes me ache.
“We can,” I promise her. “We can do anything you want. I love you, and I want you to be happy.”
“I’m happy right now,” Eden agrees before she’s covering my lips with hers again.
This kiss is different; it’s slower. Deeper. So deep I can feel Eden pouring all of her love into it. And it just makes me want to be closer to her.
Rolling her to her back again, I let her feel how much I need her between her bare thighs, but ultimately leave the decision up to her since I still have my pajama pants and boxer briefs on between us.
Thankfully, Eden knows exactly what I’m asking and is ready to give it to me. She pushes the elastic waists of both bottoms down my legs. As soon as my cock pops free, it lands right where it belongs, coating me with her heat and arousal, making us both gasp.
Eden tilts her hips just a little, and then I’m sliding home, to the most perfect place in the world – where I’m a part of her and she’s part of me.
Chapter Ten
Eden
Being with Sage is like our first time all over again, but even better. This time there’s no sting like when he took my virginity and no awkwardness as he gave me his.
Instead, it’s like our bodies were always meant to be together. It feels so amazing to be back with Sage in his bed, having this sort of connection with him that I’ve never felt with anyone else – not even his twin.
Sage and I are soulmates. I’ve always thought so, but with each and every single one of the many times we make love during the night, it becomes even more obvious.
But I still don’t understand how he could so easily end things with me before if we’re meant to be together.
I try not to dwell too much on that but enjoy our magical, insanely hot time together while it lasts.
By morning, though, we’re both sweaty and spent, and I’m in desperate need of a shower.
“We need showers and to probably change your sheets,” I whisper to Sage as I lay on his chest, his arm around me, holding me close.
“Five more minutes?” he asks.
“Okay,” I easily agree. I would give him anything he wanted, but especially more time together naked. “Do you…do you remember anything?” I ask cautiously.
“No. I don’t think so.”
“Oh.”
“At least I didn’t forget you,” he says, squeezing me closer to place a kiss on my head.
“Yeah,” I agree with a smile.
Somehow, five minutes turns into ten, and then ten into half an hour, then we both fall asleep.
I wake up when I hear the front door closing, knowing that means Tal is home and Sage’s bedroom door is open. Before he pops in, I quickly roll out of bed with Sage’s sheet around me to duck into the bathroom.
“Hey!” Sage says with a chuckle when he wakes up and notices I stole his bedding.
I wave at him from the bathroom before shutting the door just in time because the next thing I hear is Tal saying, “What the fuck? Dude, put some goddamn clothes on! You fucked her, didn’t you?”
“First of all, this is my room, and you could’ve said something before walking in,” Sage replies. “Secondly, I can fuck my girlfriend whenever I want.”
“Yeah. Right,” is Tal’s clipped sarcastic response.
Leaving them to their argument because I’m not ready to come down from cloud nine yet, I turn on the shower to let it warm up while trying to run a brush through my tangled hair.
The woman in the mirror over the sink with a goofy grin on her face doesn’t even look like me. I don’t remember that woman. In fact, I haven’t seen her since she was only a girl, right before her heart was broken.
Maybe this time won’t end the way it did before.
Last night Sage said he was going to train less and maybe not even fight again.
Here’s hoping he meant it and it wasn’t the amnesia talking.
Sage
“Why are you getting pissed at me?” I ask Tal when I pull on my pajama bottoms and get out of bed. “You’ve been angry at me since I woke up in the
