“Make love to me, Ethan,” I finally whispered.

Without another word, our lips met in a raw, all-consuming kiss, eagerly exploring each other with our tongues. Our clothes were off in record time as our lips continued to devour each other with an insatiable hunger.

His eyes raked my naked body as he leaned over me on the couch. My mouth gaped open when I saw his erection. “Oh God, Ethan. I need you inside me now,” I begged as I arched my hips up against his body and tried to moved my clit up and down his hardness.

“Soon, baby,” he groaned as his eyes moved slowly across my body. Then I felt his rough hands move down my naked skin with purpose, and a shiver ran down my spine when one hand reached between my inner thigh. Once his hands reached my legs, they slowly ran back up the length of my legs until it finally reached my inner thighs, where they lingered. Then I gasped as I felt his thumb glide across my opening, but not entering me.

“Fuck, you’re so wet,” he groaned. He spread my knees farther apart, and before I expected it, he buried his face down into my sweetness, and I cried out in pleasure as I felt his mouth lap me up. Whimpers escaped my lips as I felt his tongue flick my clit, sending waves of intense pleasure to ripple through my body. Desperate for more, I arched my hips against his mouth, urging him to go deeper inside me.

I knew he heard my pleas. I cried out as my body began to convulse with exquisite pleasure as he plunged his tongue deep inside me.

“Oh, God, Ethan. I’m about to come,” I moaned.

“Not yet, baby,” he groaned in a ragged voice as he released my pussy from his mouth. “I want to be inside you the first time you come.”

His eyes were ablaze with passion as he got on top of me, his erection pressing against my inner thigh without entering me. He groaned as he grabbed my face and pressed his mouth on top of mine. My tongue explored his mouth, tasting myself in his mouth pushed me to the edge.

“I can’t wait any longer. Please make love to me, Ethan. I need you inside me now or I’m going to go crazy,” I begged.

“Baby, I can’t say no to you.” He flashed me a wicked smile. “I want you to grab my cock and guide me inside you.”

I smiled and obeyed. I grabbed his erection and guided it to my entrance. I let out a gasp as I felt him plunge the entire length of his erection inside me in one slow and hungry thrust. He threw his head back in pleasure as I tightened myself around him when he pulled out.

“Fuck! Liv, you are so tight!” He groaned. “And you feel so fucking amazing.” With that he lifted my hips and started pounding into me. Slow at first, but with each thrust, deeper and harder, pushing out wild gasps and moans from my lips.

After minutes of excruciating pleasure, I began to spasm as I reached the apex of my orgasm.

“God, I’m about to come!” I looked up at Ethan, and saw the raw need in his eyes. He pound harder and faster into me. Within seconds, I closed my eyes as an exquisite, delicious thrill slid through my body, and at last the intensity of the pleasure pushed me over the edge.

“Fuck, me too!” He groaned as he threw his head back. I felt his body begin to convulse inside me as he reached his climax.

In the afterglow, we laid there together in happy silence. He gently kissed me on my forehead, and I gazed into his loving eyes. He gently stroked the contours of my face and whispered, “I love you, Olivia Stuart. Forever and always.”

I felt my heart melt by his words. “I love you too, Ethan.”

As I sank my face deeper into Ethan’s warm embrace, I let out a slow sigh of contentment. For the first time since I’d awoken from my coma, I felt completely safe, delirious happy, and unconditionally loved.

EPILO GUE

Two Years Later

“Where are we going?” I asked into his ears as his bike sped down a familiar road. It’d been about a year since I’d regained all of my memories, but there were still days where something looked familiar but I couldn’t be sure why. The doctors said that this was normal for everyone, and had nothing to do with my amnesia.

“It’s a surprise,” Ethan said loudly through the wind.

Then I noticed a familiar sign, but it looked different—older. Where are we?

“Well can you at least tell me if we’re almost there yet? The sun set an hour ago, and you know I don’t like to ride in the dark.”

“Don’t worry baby, we’re almost there.”

He was right. It wasn’t long before he stopped near a remote area at the edge of a neighborhood. Something about this place seemed familiar. A few feet away from where we parked was a small eight feet hill.

“Come on.” He laughed as he saw the apprehension on my face. “Trust me.”

I rolled my eyes and followed him as he led me up to the top of the hill.

“Do you remember this place?”

On top of the hill was an opening clearing with lush green grass. I looked around the moonlit clearing. It reminded me of a meadow. A row of trees lined one side of the meadow, while the other side of the meadow opened out and overlooked a small stream. Overhead, thousands of stars were shining brightly. They were beautiful.

It was then that I knew where we were. My eyes lit up as I turned to Ethan.

“You’ve taken me when were we kids.”

He nodded and pulled me into his arms. “Yup.”

“This was where we had our first kiss.” I smiled at the memory, now knowing that it was his kiss as we free fell in the air that had trigged the return of that precious memory from years ago.

“But not our last,” he whispered as he gently pressed his lips on mine. “This place had always been special to me because I love lying out here under the stars away from everyone else. But it became even more special after I took you here and had our first kiss. And after you moved, I’d come here a lot and think of you. You had no idea how much I missed you.”

My body radiated with happiness at his worlds. Even after two years together, I still felt so lucky and blessed to have him in my life. I remember sobbing for weeks after my mom and I moved away, and I was sure that I’d never see him again.

I tiptoed up and kissed him. His kiss was slow and thoughtful, and a sigh escaped me as I got lost in our kiss.

“Come on, lie down with me. Let’s take a trip down memory lane.”

“Okay,” I said with giggle.

We lay on the soft grass and looked up at the stars. Our hands reached for each other, and intertwined when they touched.

Just like that night eighteen years ago, thousands of shiny, bright stars glittered across the wide expanse of the sky. I stared out into the black sky that seemed to stretch into oblivion, and the further I looked, the more stars that appeared before my eyes.

“It’s still so beautiful, Ethan.”

“Yeah, it is. They look like diamonds, don’t they?”

I smiled. “Yeah, you’re right. They do.”

“Oh, look at that one.” Ethan lifted his other hand into the sky and I looked toward it.

It took me a second to see it, but when I did, I gasped.

There, in between Ethan’s fingers, was a diamond ring.

I sat up from the grass and looked over at Ethan, who was already on one knee with the stunning diamond ring outstretched between us.

“Oh, Ethan,” I whispered as tears welled up in my eyes.

“Olivia Stuart, you have no idea how much I love you. I have loved you since the moment you took a bite out of my peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwich over twenty years ago. When we shared our first kiss here, I had promised you that I’d always protect you and be there for you. If there was only one promise I could keep, that one would be it. You are my beginning, my end, and everything in between. Will you be my forever and always, and marry me?”