Finding Oriana

Chapter 20

CHAPTER TWENTY

We're both still on the floor. He's practically on top of me now, only because I'm pulling him closer. He's moved us so I'm lying on the floor with him on top of me.

"Ori. Fuck. Baby, please tell me. Tell me we can try again? Please, baby, I love you. I love you so fucking much. I'm ready to let you in completely whole, heatedly forever. I'm forever yours."
My tears are still flowing when he says this and still, I pull him closer

"I want you, too. I've always wanted you from the moment you walked into the tattoo studio I wanted you. I love you Kaiden Vincente. I've always loved you, but can you put your hand on your heart? Can truly say, you want this? You want me, and only me, for the rest of your life? Remember, you're only eighteen. But this is for the rest of your life, with one woman. This is it. I'm all you'll have. You and I, always and forever, just the two of us. Can you live with that? Never being with another woman, or touching another. You'll only ever have me, just me for all our days?"
He doesn't even think about it, he just tells it like it is.

"Yes, one hundred and a zillion percent. I want to be with you and only you, Oriana. I love you. I'll always love you because you're mine. You've always been mine, and you always will be."

I'm lifting his shirt off his body, needing to feel his skin against mine. It's been so long since I've felt him, being this close. As if on impulse, I'm pulling at his jeans now, just needing to feel him. A year without him was torture. Believe me, not a day has gone by when I've not had him in my thoughts. Even when I thought Zander would pull me away from him, unfortunately, it didn't work because even Zander knew I was completely in love with Kaiden. And yeah, Zander is a few years older than me but we still had a moment and we came pretty close to taking it further. Yeah, that was in Rome. I'd first met him in Paris, just after I met Devin and Oliver. Devin and I were chatting, when Oliver came over and attacked her neck with a kiss. I have to be honest, I felt envious. You could see how much they loved each other. If you had seen them together, it's like they're completely at one. Like, it's just them in the room, one full of a million people. Even with them all surrounding them, you can still point out they're just one. Even now, after being together for about three years now, their love grows more, every day they're together.
That love... That's the love I want, and I want it with him with Kaiden. That's all I've ever wanted. Yet, when I'd met Zander, I did for a moment think there could be another for me. I think we both did. Of course, that was until we kissed for the last time. I'd first met him when Devin and I had downed a shot of apple sours, both of us almost dying with the taste in our mouths.

"Holy fuck, turds of hell. That's the rankest of drinks I have ever tasted."
Devin almost shouts and I laugh at her. She looks tough as hell, but on the inside, she's just like me; innocent. It's just a front she plays. It's all "I'm bad, so don't fuck with me." But I see her, and she's so nice. I mean, she gives off an air of toughness, but I think her heart is made of gold. I still wouldn't mess with her though. I'm not that stupid. Seriously, Devin doesn't fuck around. She's cut your balls off if you fuck with her. Hell, even Oliver's th same. They're a true King and Queen, both dedicated to each other through thick and thin.
So, we were drinking shots when Zander stood at the bar.

"Mrs King, Oliver requests your presence in the green room."
I turn to look at him and honestly, I'm floored. He looks like a hunkarific God with sun-kissed skin and a set of green eyes. Ones any woman would swoon over. His hair... well, there's no hair, but he looks a little like Bailey, but younger. His eyes finally land on mine when I speak.

"Holy shit, babes, who's the big fella?"
Both he and Dev, look at me, and I see Dev grin, but Zander just stands still. He's looking at me, looking at him. Yep, I'm pissed and desperate for a distraction, and Zander was a huge distraction.