All Chapters of After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me: Chapter 291 - Chapter 300

397 Chapters

The Confession

ELARA'S POV:Alistair is sitting by himself at the kitchen table, holding a plain white mug of coffee in both hands, staring blankly out the glass window at the garden. He looks just as completely exhausted as I feel. His dark hair is a messy, unbrushed heap on top of his head. His jaw is locked tight, and his gray eyes look red-rimmed, heavy, and totally lost in thought.He hears my sneakers on the tile and looks up immediately. Our eyes hit each other, and for a second, my lungs completely forget how to pull in air.He looks terrible too. He looks like he did not catch a single minute of sleep either. There are dark purple circles sitting heavy under his eyes, and his skin looks totally washed out in the morning light. He is actually still wearing the exact same button-down shirt and trousers from yesterday, both looking rumpled and wrinkled like he slept with them on, or did not sleep at all.He just sits there staring at me from across the room. I stand near the doorway starin

The Truth Between Us

ALISTAIR'S POV:I just sit there and stare at Elara.I literally cannot process what just came out of her mouth. I am sitting in the quiet kitchen of Ashcroft Manor, holding a ceramic mug of stone-cold black coffee in my hands while the bright morning light streams through the tall glass windows. And the woman I have been completely, miserably in love with for seven long years just looked me right in the eye and told me that she wanted me to kiss her last night.She wanted me to kiss her. Not just last night, but for years.I open my mouth to say something, anything at all, but my jaw just hangs open. I close it. I open it again like a complete idiot. No words come out of my throat. My brain feels like it has completely shut down."I do not understand," I finally manage to say, my voice coming out rough, strained, and rasping in my chest. "I thought...""You thought I did not feel the exact same way about you?" she asks gently.A tiny, faint smile tugs at the corner of her lip

The First Kiss

ALISTAIR'S POV: The kiss is everything I have ever dreamed of. Her lips are soft. Her mouth is warm. She tastes like coffee and something sweet, something that is just her. I have imagined this moment a thousand times, a million times, but nothing could have prepared me for the reality of it. For the way her body feels against mine. For the way her hands are tangling in my hair. For the way she is making that soft sound in the back of her throat, the sound of surrender, the sound of finally letting go. It is like every single barrier I spent seven years building up inside my chest just completely crumbled to dust in a second. I feel my entire body trembling against the edge of the wooden table as I pull her in even closer to me. I cannot get enough of her. My hands are in her hair, her dark waves sliding through my fingers like silk. She is moaning against my mouth, and I swallow the sound, letting it fuel the fire burning inside me. My heart is pounding so hard against my ri

The Dawn of Us

ELARA'S POV:I have dreamed about this moment for years. I have imagined what it would be like to have him look at me the way he is looking at me now, with hunger and desire and something deeper that looks like love.He is standing over me, his gray eyes dark, his chest heaving, his hands braced on either side of me. He is so beautiful. So intense. So completely and utterly mine."Alistair," I say. My voice comes out breathless, shaking.He lowers himself onto the bed beside me. He reaches out and touches my face. His fingers are warm on my skin. He traces the line of my jaw, the curve of my lips, the hollow of my throat.Every place his hand brushes against my skin leaves a trail of goosebumps behind. I close my eyes for a second, just leaning my cheek into his broad palm and soaking in the reality that he is actually here with me."You have no idea how long I have waited for this," he says."Tell me," I whisper.He leans down and presses his lips to my forehead. "Since I was

Crossing Every Line

ALISTAIR'S POV:I look down at her and I forget how to breathe.She is lying on my bed, her dark hair spread across the white pillow, her green eyes looking up at me with something that looks like trust, like surrender, like the kind of love that I have been dreaming about for seven years. Her cheeks are flushed. Her lips are swollen from my kisses. Her chest is rising and falling with quick, shallow breaths.She is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.I reach out and touch her face. My fingers are trembling. I trace the line of her jaw, the curve of her lips, the hollow of her throat. Her skin is warm and soft under my touch."Elara," I say. My voice comes out rough, strained, barely a whisper.She reaches up and takes my hand. She presses her lips to my palm."I am here," she says. "I am not going anywhere."I lower myself onto the bed beside her. I prop myself up on one elbow and look down at her. I want to memorize every inch of her face, every curve of her body, every sound

The Last Wall Falls

ALISTAIR'S POV: She pushes at my chest until I roll onto my back. Her hands are clumsy with nerves as she unbuttons my shirt and shoves it off. Then she works on my pants. When she finally gets them down and my cock springs free, she just stares for a second. "Wow," she breathes. I almost laugh. Almost. Then she wraps her hand around me and the laugh dies. Her grip is warm and uncertain. She strokes once, twice, watching my face like she is waiting for instructions. "Like that," I manage. "Just... a little tighter." She tightens her fist and strokes again. My hips jerk. She looks proud of herself. Then she leans down and takes the head of my cock into her mouth. Heat. Wet. Soft. My vision blanks out for a second. She sucks carefully, tongue swirling, taking me deeper by small degrees. One of her hands stays wrapped around the base. The other rests on my stomach. I dig my fingers into the sheets and bite down on my own lip hard enough to hurt. Every wet sound her mouth makes is t

The Beginning of Us

ELARA'S POV:He pushes in slowly. The stretch burns in a way that is almost too much and not enough at the same time. I dig my nails into his shoulders and bite down on my lower lip to keep from making noise. He stops when he is fully inside, breathing hard against my neck."Okay?" His voice is strained."Yes," I manage. "Just... give me a second."He stays still. His forehead rests against mine. I can feel him throbbing inside me. After a few breaths the burn fades into something fuller, deeper. I shift my hips a little and we both inhale sharply."Move," I whisper.He does. Slow at first, careful strokes that make my toes curl. Every time he sinks back in I have to press my mouth against his shoulder to muffle the sounds trying to escape. His breathing is ragged in my ear. One of his hands finds mine and laces our fingers together against the pillow.We find a rhythm. His hips roll deeper. Mine lift to meet him. The wet sound of our bodies moving together feels obscenely loud. Somew

No More Running

ELARA'S POV:The next few days were perfect.I had never been happier in my entire life. I woke up every morning with a smile on my face, my body still tingling from the night before, my heart full of a love I had been hiding for years. I would stretch out in bed, feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin, and I would think about him. About the way he looked at me. About the way he touched me. About the way he whispered my name in the dark.Every morning felt like waking up inside a world that had completely reset itself. The heavy shadow of the past seven years was just gone, replaced by this quiet, buzzing warmth that stayed in my chest from sunrise until the late hours of the night.Alistair and I moved through Ashcroft Manor like two planets orbiting the same sun. We were always drawn to each other, always finding excuses to be in the same room, to brush against each other, to steal glances across crowded spaces. We would meet in the hallway and his fingers would graze mine. W

Together Against the World

ALISTAIR'S POV: The anniversary celebration was approaching, and with it, the whole family. All the guests. All the eyes watching. I lay in bed with Elara, her head on my chest, her hand resting over my heart. The room was dark and quiet, the only light coming from the moon through the curtains. I could feel her breathing, slow and steady, her body warm against mine. My fingers rhythmically traced soft circles on her upper arm. Outside, the night wind pushed gently against the glass of the window, but inside the bedroom, the air felt warm, safe, and heavy with a quiet kind of honesty. "The anniversary is tomorrow," she said softly. Her voice was quiet, hesitant. "Everyone is going to be here. All the guests. All the family." I stroked her hair. "I know. I have been thinking about it all day." "We cannot keep this secret forever, Alistair. Tomorrow, with everyone watching, I do not know how I am going to pretend I do not want to kiss you every second." I was quiet for a

The Rival Returns

ALISTAIR'S POV:The morning after the anniversary party, I am in Elara's room before the sun is fully up.The gray light of dawn is just beginning to leak around the edges of the heavy window curtains. The entire house downstairs is dead silent for once, completely exhausted from the long night of music, toasts, and dancing.She is still in bed, her dark hair spread across the pillow, her green eyes heavy with sleep. She looks soft and warm and beautiful, and I want nothing more than to crawl back under the covers and stay there with her forever.I stand by the edge of the mattress for a long moment, watching the slow, rhythmic rise and fall of her chest. My heart feels almost uncomfortably full. After all the years of distance, having her right here within my reach still feels like a dream I am terrified of waking up from.But I cannot stay. I have to go.I lean down and kiss her forehead. Her skin is warm and soft under my lips."Alistair," she murmurs, her voice thick with s

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