Red_Roses_and_Black_Dahlias_-_Macy_T

My thoughts were proven right when she sniffled, her head slowly coming
up to stare into my eyes. Her golden orbs were glistening and red.
I couldn't explain what it did to me, seeing her there, after thinking she
was gone for good. I could never explain the relief, the love, the pride I felt
at that moment, it was just insane.
“But I couldn’t do it, Maddox. You’re the best thing that’s ever happened
to me— to us. And I could never put you through the pain of betraying you
again. All the secrets were eating at me, and—” she hiccuped, the sobs
keeping her from speaking freely. I wanted to hug her and tell her she didn’t
have to say anything but my feet were glued to the ground.
“And I know you probably won't ever think of me the same, but I love you
too much to run away from you. I love you too much not to trust you.”
That seemed to get me moving because the next thing I knew, I was
standing in front of her and gathering her in my arms. She wrapped hers
around my neck as her legs came to encircle my waist.
I seemed to have lost the ability to speak, but what I wanted to say I could
show with my actions. I needed to touch her, I needed to be around her, next
to her, inside her. I wanted her to feel me, I wanted her to see that I was here
to stay, I wanted to anchor her and make her understand that I was not going
to leave.
Even when I thought she was a cold killer, even when I thought she had
been manipulating me all this time, I never could have turned her in. I was in
love with that woman, I was a slave to her and would have done anything for
her.
So I carried her to our bedroom and deposited her in the middle of the
bed.
She was wearing a pair of gray sweatpants and a matching gray
sweatshirt, which both ended up strewn around the bedroom floor. Once we
were both naked on the bed and I laid between her thighs, I simply stared at