The Divorced Military Queen Awakens (by Sadie Baxter) novel Chapter 441

Chapter 441 Reunion Kiss

Chapter 441 Reunion Kiss

His mouth found her cheeks first, drinking in the tears before they could fall.

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The warm salt dampened his lips, thawing the cold that always seemed to cling to him.

These tears… Are they really for me?

Each time he had jolted awake from the nightmare of losing her, pain had wrapped around his ribs like iron bands. Now, drop by drop, her tears washed that darkness away.

Through a shimmering veil of tears, Quinn looked up at Julius. “I—”

His mouth crashed onto hers, silencing the word before it could form.

Her eyes flew wide, disbelief flickering in their depths as the man she loved filled her vision and stole her breath.

He’s kissing me?

Since the moment they found each other again, this was the first time he had kissed her.

The kiss was a fierce, consuming thing–as though he meant to swallow every shard of her, to make certain she could never slip away again.

The world narrowed to heat and the rasp of shared breath until she almost forgot how to breathe at all.

“Julius… I—” Her lips edged back, trying to find words between the storm of his.

He caught her chin and chased her mouth once more, greedy, desperate, as if proving something only he understood.

His free arm circled her waist and hauled her closer, locking her against the hard plane of his chest.

He held her so tightly it felt as if he meant to fuse her heart to his.

When the kiss finally broke, only ragged breathing filled the space between them.

Chest to chest, he pressed his lips to her ear and whispered on a broken rush of air. “Quinn, don’t soothe me with pretty words. I’ll fall apart.”

“No lies,” she breathed. “Every word is true.”

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The room spun. He toppled with her onto the couch, teeth grazing the delicate shell of her ear until tremors chased down her spine.

His mouth forged a slow path south, stopping at the fragile hollow of her collarbone.

“Do you still want me?” The question rumbled against her skin.

His lean body was wound tight, veins stark beneath skin, a sheen of sweat gathering at his brow.

This time, the sweat was born of desire, not nightmare.

Quinn looked up. One word from her–no–and he would let every spark die and step away.

But this was the first time he had reached for her in so long. Refusal was unthinkable.

“I want you.” One arm looped around his neck while the other freed the buttons of his shirt. She tipped his jaw and kissed him, earning a fiercer reply.

“Say it again,” he growled, movement urgent, voice rough with plea. “Say you regret leaving me.”

Gasping, she brushed his lips with hers. “I regret it–regret breaking up with you. Julius, I regret it.”

She kept repeating the words, praying that each confession might chase his nightmares a little farther into the past.

Quinn pressed her palms together inside her mind, willing Julius to drift into a sleep stitched only with gentle dreams, the kind that smelled of sunshine on linen.

More than anything, she refused to let herself become the demon that stalked his darkness.

Realizing she might already have stepped into that terrible role stabbed her with a pain so sudden and raw she could hardly breathe.

Tap!

A single teardrop landed, tiny yet thunderous in the hush. Julius‘ breath caught. More tears followed, hot and clear, slipping from his lashes and falling onto Quinn’s chest, each drop searing her skin like liquid ember.

Her own heart convulsed, twisting on itself in helpless sympathy.

She stared at his face inches from hers, stunned by its vulnerability. “Julius?” she whispered.

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Is he… crying?

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Another tear fell, sliding into the tracks her own tears had left, their sorrows pooling together indistinguishably.

“Quinn, why… why do you love me only so little? Why can’t you love me just a little more?”

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