When The Stars Align

Chapter 81

"Is he sleeping?" I asked James while I cleaned my hands after brushing my teeth. After the fight, James and I calmed down and things were alright. Belle and Lars left, and we had dinner quietly with Sarah watching us attentively, until we rested her we were alright, we even kissed for her to show her we were fine.

"Yeah, he resisted a bit, but ended up falling asleep." He said, after rocking our youngest. I smiled and was about to pass by him when he caught me.

"Can we talk now?" He asked looking in my eyes. I thought we were done with the conversation but after all, he wanted to talk more.

"Yeah..." I ended up saying. I nodded my head agreeing. James then took my hand and pulled me to our bed. He sat and then adjusted my pillow, tapping on it, telling me it was ok to go. Instead of laying down, I just sat on the bed and looked at him. I didn't say a thing, I knew he was the one that wanted to talk, so I waited, instead he gave me a smile.

"You're waiting for me to talk aren't you?" He asked me.

"Well, you were the one asking to talk." I said.

"Ok..." He nodded. "I want you to go to the police and press charges against him." He said.

"James..." I said looking at him helpless. "I don't want to."

"You have to Andrea! He can't get out of this like that!"

"Look...he already quit his job, he redeemed himself alone. Let him go now. I don't want to talk about this, because when I do, I relive it in my head, and I don't want that. I don't want the press to find out, plus this would turn out ugly, because any lawyer would be delighted to defeat my lawyer as my relation to you and they would dig until they find something they could use against us. No...James...I don't want to go through that, expose our life like that. Let him go."

"I can't babe!" He shook his head. "I can't let it go. When I think..." He took a deep breath. "When I think he did things to you..." He made an angry and disgusted face. "I can't allow that; I can't allow you go through that avoiding the press because of me. I am in this with you Andrea." He gabbed both my hands in support.

"If I assure that I am alright, will you be alright too? He didn't touch me that deep, you know, it's not like he fingered me or anything." I said.

"Oh stop...stop...I don't want to heart it because I rage!" He said.

"Listen." I tried to have his attention. "He touched me lightly, I mean he forced me, and he put his hand under my dress and then under my panties, but he didn't do anything else." I said.

"Oh babe..." He whispered pulling me to him. It felt good to be in his arms, to feel his warm skin against mine.

"So, let it go. He's not here anymore and we need peace, besides you already broke his jaw." I giggled.

"And my fucking hand." He said complaining a bit and I laughed. I grabbed his hand and placed a kiss on it.

"Is it better?" I asked like I usually do with Sarah when she hurts herself. James offered me a sweet smile.

"Much better." He said kissing my lips so softly.

"Do you know what we could do?" I asked him running a hand over his face, his smiled opened a bit more.

"No..." He run the tip of his fingers over my arm. "But you're gonna tell me...aren't you?" He kissed my lips again. "Or maybe, show me..." He whispered in my ear. I smiled at his tone and my body shuddered a bit reacting.

"Come near then." I said tugging a hand on the back of his head. I pulled him down for another kiss, his lips kissed mine expertly and I just wanted to drown on that kiss. His arms closed a bit more around my body and I gasped at the sensation, retaking the kiss right after. The tip of tongue ran over my lips before meeting mine. Our tongues entwined while his fingers dug under the shirt of my pajama. God...I missed his touch. Six weeks was too much of a long time.