Chapter 99

  Greece

  While she fingered Rafik’s curls, Tessa kissed his forehead as he snuggled closer to her breast. They spent every night pressed together skin to skin, and he felt like part of her body now. “I can’t wait to feel the sun again, baby. It seems like the rain hasn’t let up in ages.”

  Though it was warm and sunny year-round where he grew up, it was ten years since he saw the ocean. “I haven’t been in the water since I was a child, and I’m not sure I’ll remember how to swim at all.”

  The pads of her fingers slapped at his arm as she nudged him with her hip to push him out of bed. “We should be heading out.”

  Like a bull trying to escape a china shop, her bony knees beat into him as she climbed over his body, and his hands came up to protect himself. “It’s a funny thing. I’m usually the one chasing you from the bed.”