Before You Were Mine

Chapter Twenty-Two

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Before You Were Mine- Chapter Twenty- Two

-Caroline-

"Sexy fire women with high heels or sexy cat woman. Which one do you prefer?" I ask him, watching as Tyler lays his head on the pillow behind him, lifting it up slowly and licking his lips in a seductive manner.

"I prefer you naked. But, you know that probably wouldn't go over so well with your guests." He adds in with a shy smile as I jump on the bed beside him, laying down in my red silk robe after taking a shower and starting to prepare for tonight.

"Tyler, I'm being serious!" He hears me exclaim, swatting at his chest as he playfully rolls over to his side and rubs the spot where I hit him. "Ouch...Ohhhh, you hit like a girl!"

"I hit like a girl? Pft." I tell him, watching as he rolls back on to his side, peeking at me through one of his open eyelids as he takes my hand and places it flatly on his chest, rubbing where I had hit him. "Kiss it now."

"Kiss what?" I ask him, shaking my head and trying to tug my arm away as Tyler pulls me down on to the mattress and he hovers over me with a sweet stare. "My chest, Caroline. You hurt me and now I'd like it if you made me feel better with a kiss."

"You know, we haven't slept together since I got back from the hospital and my near death experience. It doesn't have anything to do with what my mom said to you about me, does it?" I stop my hands from wrapping around his neck and instead they drop down to his shoulders, my eyes closing as I exhale deeply. "Baby, it has nothing to do with that."

"So, what is it then? Ever since I got back home, you've been distant and I don't like it. I miss you. I miss us and I just want to be with my wife. Not just emotionally either." His words sting, they force me to clutch on to his hand a bit tighter as my eyes lock on to him and I inhale sharply.

"You died. All the machines around you were going off like crazy and you flat lined in front of me. Do you know what it was like watching me lose you?" He moves to lay beside me now, his hands gripping on to mine that's in the middle of the bed as I feel his thumb wipe away the falling tears on my face, ones I didn't even realize that were falling.

"I have loved you since I was 18 years old, Tyler Lockwood. I'm 22 years old now. Aside from my amazing mother who thinks that you are perfect for me. You're all I've got and you are all I've never known. I lost it, the faith I had and I almost gave up on you and it hurts me to know that I did because for as long as I've known you. The one thing that I know is that you'd never give up on me." Tyler moves in closer, pulling me against his chest as he starts to make small circles upon my back when he adds in softly. "You need time. I get it because I need it too. I need time to readjust to living our lives after losing some of our own guys that I'll never get to see again. I need time to regain the strength I once had in my body because I feel like everything in me is failing and I'm too young for that. But, most of all. I think we both need enough time to realize that nothing is ever going to tear me apart from you again." He says in the most sincere tone I've heard from him in a long time as he kisses my cheek and whispers into my ear. "I love you with my whole heart and soul, Caroline and I am never going to put you through that kind of pain again. I promise."

Getting up after a few minutes and kissing the tip of my nose before he jumps off the bed, Tyler points over to the black leather suit hanging in my closest as he turns back to me and states. "Cat woman. She's a vixen, just like my wife. And, this outfit would look hotter. Save the sexy fire women outfit for my eyes only."