Always Only You by Chloe Liese (z-lib.org).epub

Playlist: “Like I’m Gonna Lose You,” Meghan Trainor, John Legend
I WATCH FIRELIGHT PLAY ON HER SKIN, A WASH OF SUNSET WATERCOLORS. GOLD
and bronze, ruby shadows beneath her chin, the swell of her bare breasts.
Frankie, naked on a couch dragged in front of the fire is a vision of sated beauty.
Leaning past her, I poke the fire and throw on another log. Her hand slides
up my back and tangles in my hair.
“That was nice of Aiden to make himself scarce,” she says.
I laugh drily. “It was a requirement that Aiden make himself scarce.”
Which he did. He took one look at me holding Frankie, both of us sopping
wet from the rain, laughing and love-drunk, hiked his bag onto his shoulder and
muttered something about the airport as he walked out. I heard the tires of his
rental catch on the gravel, then the noise of an engine fading in the rain. Then I
tore off her clothes, set Frankie in a hot shower, and got down on my knees to
show her how much I missed her.
Frankie smiles up at me. “I feel bad, but it’s best he’s not here. You are a
noisy lover, Mr. Bergman.”
A blush heats my cheeks as I glare down at her playfully. “I think you mean,
passionate, Ms. Zeferino.”
Her smile deepens, broken only briefly by a lingering cough that sounds
much better than it did three weeks ago.
I slide my finger along her dimple. “This has tortured me many months,
Francesca. Years, to be precise.”
“My dimple?” She slaps a hand over her cheek and my finger, looking selfconscious.
“It’s weird I don’t have two, isn’t it? It always bugged me because
my mind craves symmetry.”
“That’s why I like it. You were always so neat and exact. Then you had this
lopsided dimple that I only saw when you gave a rare smile. Even if it’s an