Lost and Found (BWWM)|Complete

🌊⚓Chapter 17⚓🌊

Kayla's POV

I woke up when the sun came shining through my window. Stupid sun, so cheery and bright. What is there to be happy about right now?

Everything is a lie. My father is not my father, I have a brother, Marquel tried to kill me...

What did I do to have such bad karma coming my way?

I got out of the bed and made my way to the bathroom. I took a bath and brushed my teeth.

I walked back into my room wrapped in a towel, and found Anthony sitting on my bed.

"Can I help you?" I asked as I placed my hand on my hip.

"Probably not, but maybe I can help you." He replied with a wink.

"What?" I could feel my cheeks begin to flush in embarrassment.

He laughed and replied, "Your hair. I can help you with your hair. You never did like combing the tangles out. If you wanted me to help you with something else though, I would be more than happy to oblige."

"Come on K-Bear. It's really not that bad." Antoni said while perched upon my bed.

"You wouldn't know. You don't have to comb out these tangles." I said with a huff.

He stood up and walked behind me. "Then show me how to do it."

I began to show him how to comb the tangles out. He was a fast learner. Soon I was falling asleep as the comb slid through my hair.

I don't even remember falling asleep. I just remember Antoni placing me on the bed, before turning to walk out the door.

I stretched out and grabbed his hand, "Stay," I said when he turned around. He smiled and took off his shirt. The bed dipped when he sat down, and I turned to face the wall. Soon, his arms were surrounding me. This is my favorite place to be.

He was sitting on the bed already, so I decided to sit on the floor. I grabbed my comb, my brush, some detangler, and a pillow. Once I got myself situated, he started on my hair.

"I miss this," shit, I hadn't meant for those words to slip out of my mouth.

"I miss this too," he responded before placing a kiss on my forehead.

Silence reigned for about 5 minutes then he asked, "Can we talk?"

"About?" I asked as I worried the threads of the towel.

"You know exactly what I want to talk about K-Bear," he replied in a husky voice.

He parted my hair in four, and then he began combing out each section. He sprayed the detangled, and then brushed it through a few times, and finally he used the comb to make sure all the tangles were gone. When he got to the second section I whispered, "Yes."

"The night we broke up, I was devastated. I thought that you would have been happy that I was joining the military. I never thought that you would have seen it as me trying to get away from you."

I leaned my head on his knee, as he moved to the other side.

"At the time, things weren't really good Antoni. We had been arguing all of the time. We were both stressed out about finals, and then you just dropped this on me. We were in a relationship, which meant we needed to make life-altering decisions together."

"You're right; I should have included you in making that decision."

His movements in my hair stilled. He placed the comb on the bed. His right hand clasped mines. He laced his fingers through my hand and brought it up to his lips.

I shivered as his lips grazed my skin.
"Kayla, the past will always be a part of us. Those decisions will forever shape our future, but we can't let that keep us from living in the present."

He turned me around to face him. Our hands were clasped between us. He caught my gaze and held it.

"K-Bear, I'm sorry for the decisions that I made that ultimately ended our relationship. I'm sorry for forgetting that intimacy is important in any relationship. The intimacy of opening up to one another. I'm sorry for not confiding in you, thus making you believe that you couldn't confide in me."

"No Antoni, I'm sorry for assuming that everything was personal. You were facing hardships of your own, and I never even noticed. Sometimes I just get so caught up in my own doubts and insecurities, and I began projecting those feelings upon others." I said as I let my gaze drop to the floor.

He let go of my hand to lift my face until I met his gaze. He smiled that devilish smile of his and lifted his pinky in the air.

"I never stopped loving you. I don't think that you ever stopped loving me. So pinky promise me, there will be no one that you love as much as me."

With a smile, I lifted my pinky up to his. Once we linked them together I said, "I promise."

The smile that lit up his face was enough to rival the brightness of the sun.

"I missed you K-Bear,"
"I missed you too Antoni."

He leaned down and brought his lips towards mines. Soon I felt his hands travel up to my waist. He pulled me closer as he deepened the kiss.

His lips lit a fire from my lips down the column of my neck. I moaned as he sucked on my throat. I lifted my hands and placed them around his neck.

He picked my hands up, and I wrapped my legs around his waist.

"K-Bear," he whispered against my lips.
That one word was full of lust and need.

Just then the door opened. Guess who it was, yep Rafe.

"Jesus, every time I run into the two of you together it's worse." Rafe yelled as he covered his eyes.

"Maybe you should knock before you open doors," I replied.

He sighed, "I need to speak with Anthony, please." He said as a grim look settled upon his face.

"I will be back," he replied after he kissed me once more.