Page 43 of Finding Happily Ever After
Muscles she didn’t even know she had.
It was still dark out, but Natalie guessed it was early morning. Only a few hours after they’d finally fallen asleep. The night before, they’d each drifted in and out of slumber more than once, but every time they woke and started touching and kissing, they’d inevitably end up making love again.
Making love.
That’s what it felt like.
Not that she had anything else to compare it to, but being with Aiden had been more than sex. Way more. There wasnoway sex usually felt that good because if it did, why the hell hadn’t she been doing that before?
She knew the answer.
It wouldn’t have been the same with anyone else.
Natalie shifted in the bed slightly, careful not to wake Aiden. Her entire body was buzzing. Every nerve ending extra sensitive. And there was an ache between her legs that bordered on pain. A good kind of pain because nothing but pleasure had caused it.
There’d been a moment when it had hurt. A few moments, really. But then…it was nothing but amazing.
She slipped from the bed and padded down the hall to the bathroom.
Yes. Everything definitely hurt a little. She finished up in the bathroom and splashed some water on her face. As Natalie lifted her arms up and over her head in a stretch, she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. She wasn’t naive enough to think that she’d look different afterward. It’s not as though she were fifteen, expecting magical things to happen the moment she lost her virginity.
Not at all.
Still. She leaned in and examined herself closer.
Shedidlook different.
But only because the smile on her face was so broad and so genuine, she’d never be able to wipe it off. Not that she wanted to.
She wrapped her arms around her body in a quick hug and debated going to the kitchen to figure out the life-changing coffee machine, or crawling back into bed for more snuggles with the man she was very quickly falling for.
Natalie swallowed back a giggle.
What was even happening to her?
Was this what love felt like? Or was it just what it felt like after sex every time?
She had the ridiculous urge to find her cell phone and text Sarah to ask. But no. She didn’t want to bring anything or anyone into this moment with them.
Natalie popped her head back into the bedroom. Aiden was still sleeping, so she grabbed his shirt off the floor and pulled it over her head before heading into the kitchen.
Coffee it was.
Besides, shestillhadn’t tried the life-changing coffee. Not that she needed it. Her life had been completely changed already.
Again, she smiled and a little giggle escaped her lips.
She couldn’t help it. She just felt so damn good.
Her smile quickly turned to a frown in the kitchen, confronted with the fancy espresso machine.
There were dials and spouts and buttons. And none of them seemed to make any sense at all. Surely one of them had to create the magical coffee.
Natalie spent the next few minutes pushing things and pulling on levers until miraculously hot water started to flow out a spout.
But not hot coffee water.
She laughed and was about to double down on her efforts when the ringing of a phone from the living room caught her attention. Not wanting to wake Aiden—at least not until she could deliver a hot steaming cup of coffee to him in bed, where maybe she could join him—she sprinted into the living room to find the phone and silence it.
