Max
The week passes quickly in a blur of meetings, lovemaking, and eating. Diana seems constantly hungry, and I’m more than happy to oblige by making her cakes, cookies, roasts, and stews. It’s been a long time since I cooked, but I love being able to pamper her in this way.
There’s been no talk of us being true mates, but I feel it in my bones. Every day, I become more and more certain that Diana and I are destined to be together. She’s an incredible woman: strong, smart, sassy. She tells me stories of her treasure hunts and tells me all of the fun things she and her father discovered together.
The thing I find most interesting is that they never kept the treasure for themselves. Oh, they kept enough to live off of, but most of what they found, they donated to museums and schools throughout the universe.
She’s fantastic, and I want to spend all of my time with her, but all good things must come to an end. I’m assigned a mission, and I have to go. I have to leave her, and I really, really don’t want to.
We’re sitting side-by-side on the sofa, curled up together, when I tell her.
“I have to go away for a few days.” Her body tenses, and I wonder what she’s thinking. Diana hasn’t been alone since she was rescued. Is she wondering how she’s going to handle solitude now? Is she wondering if she’ll feel isolated? “It’s only for a few days. Unfortunately, it’s a mission that has to happen now.”
“You tried to reschedule?”
“I tried,” I sigh. “There’s a guy on Dreagle, and he’s been doing some bad stuff. We have to go try to get him.”
“Say no more,” she smiles. “Go save the day, Max.”
She looks at me like I’m the brave one, like I’m the strong one. She looks at me like I’m the hero she’s been waiting for, but that’s not true at all. Diana is the one who saved me.
Before I met her, I was floating through space, but I wasn’t really living. I wasn’t laughing. I wasn’t having fun. Before her, my entire life consisted of the job, but now?
Now I think there’s room for more in my life than just work.
I kiss her softly.
“You can stay with Sarah if you want to,” I tell her. “I’ve already cleared it with her.”
“Blake’s going with you, I take it,” she smiles.
“He is.”
“So Sarah might be a little lonely.”
“Sarah and Blake? They aren’t a thing.” I still don’t understand why. They’re obviously perfect for each other, but neither one of them seems to realize this.
Diana just shrugs, but then she snuggles closer to me.
“Do you want to go stay with her?” I ask again quietly. I don’t want to push her, but I do want to make sure she doesn’t have to be alone while I’m gone. If she has a nightmare, or she starts to feel scared, I want her to know she has someone.
“I’ll be okay,” Diana says. “But thank you. It means a lot to me.”
“Are you sure?”
“I’m sure,” she says, and then she kisses me. “But you need to let me send you off properly.”
“And how are you going to do that, darling?”
She chuckles, and slides off the sofa to her knees. She looks up at me with a big smile and says, “Take off your pants.”
Who can argue with that?
My pants are discarded and quickly forgotten, and then she starts to touch me. She runs her hands up and down my thighs and kisses my legs, slowly moving up, slowly heading toward my center.
I close my eyes and just allow myself to feel.
This is incredible.
She is incredible.
“Diana,” I whisper, and I run my hands through her hair. She whispers something I can’t quite hear, and then begins to lick my center. I lean back and groan, losing all train of thought.
She’s perfect.
And I’m going to miss her.
It’s strange that just over a week ago, I didn’t know she existed. I didn’t know she was so incredible. I didn’t know she was going to need me just as much as I need her. I didn’t know we’d fit together so perfectly.
She slides my length into her mouth.
“Fuck, baby,” I moan. “Your mouth feels so damn good.”
“I just want you to be thinking of me while you’re gone,” she whispers, and keeps sucking me.
“I’ll be missing you every minute I’m away,” I tell her.
“Then you’d better hurry back,” Diana looks up at me and smiles, and then she takes me in her mouth once more.
This time, she doesn’t pull back.
This time, she keeps sucking harder and harder and harder.
This time, she licks my body until I’m coming apart.
I come undone.
I come for her.
She swallows, and the whole world seems to stop as I look at her on her knees. Diana smiles up at me, and I can’t wait another minute to tell her.
“I love you,” I say.
Her eyes get even bigger, if that’s possible.
“Diana,” I repeat. “I love you.”
She doesn’t say anything, but she smiles and reaches for me. I pull her up into my lap, and I just hold her.
“I feel the exact same way,” she whispers. “But I thought it was too soon. Is this crazy, Max? Is it crazy to feel this way about each other?”
“It’s not crazy,” I assure her. “Have you heard of true mates?”
“Yeah, Sarah filled me in,” she says.
Leave it to good ol’ Sarah. That doctor is one incredible woman, and she doesn’t even know how fantastic she is. I wonder if Diana is right and there really is something between her and Blake. I hope for Sarah’s sake that there is. They’re both such good people, and they really do deserve to find their happy ending.
“You’re my mate, Diana. I didn’t want to admit it right away, not even to myself, but there’s no other explanation. Fate brought us together. This was meant to be.”
“Destiny,” she says, and she smiles.
I don’t want to leave her, not even for a few days, but I know that with her hope and her love to guide me, I’m going to be just fine.