All Chapters of Mrs. Hunt for 30 days: Chapter 161

MitchelleDorian was already at the window when I opened my eyes.I lay still and watched him from the bed without announcing myself. The morning light came through the sheer curtains and fell across his back and shoulders, catching the healing scars from the bullet wounds in a way that made my chest tighten. I got up quietly and crossed the room and wrapped my arms around him from behind, pressing my cheek between his shoulder blades."I cannot believe Geneva is this beautiful," I said softly."Of course it is," he replied, and I could hear the smile in it without seeing his face.He turned around slowly and looked at me in the morning light. Just looked. The way he had been looking at me since he woke up, like he needed to keep confirming I was real.He pulled me in and kissed me slowly, with the particular tenderness of a man who understood exactly how close he had come to never doing this again. When he pulled back his eyes were wet and I had never seen that before.Not once i