Revive Me (Say Something Book 3) by Salice Rodgers

pain and anger, baby, let it go and let me love you please!” he cries.
    I wipe my cheeks and push my glass away from me laying money on the bar.
    “I’m at Gold’s Pub,” I confess and hang up the phone. I sit on the stairs and wait knowing I shouldn’t get behind the wheel of my car. I may make a lot of the wrong choices but that will never be one of them.
    While I sit on the stairs, I watch the road waiting for Trevor to fly in the parking lot and think of all the ways he will cuss me out when he makes it to me. Telling me how stupid this was and how all I had to do was let the pain go and he could have held me and made it better.
    He walks up the stairs and sits down beside me not saying a word. He just wraps his arms around me and kisses my head.
    “I… I’m sorry,” I say.
    “Taylor, just let me love you… Just let me revive you. Please don’t give up. This is not the end for us, baby.”
    He stands and holds his hand out waiting for me to take it. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I know how lucky I am to have a man who loves me without question and lets me know that each day. There hasn’t been a day that has gone by that he hasn’t shown me his love for me. Showed me that no matter what life throws at us we will make it and we will be okay.
    When I open my eyes, I take Trevor’s hand and he walks us to his truck. Once I sit down I lean my head back and close my eyes again. Trevor reaches his hand across the seat and wraps his fingers around mine.
    The ride home neither of us say a word. Trevor drives silently rubbing his thumb over my fingers. It’s the small things he does that lets me know that he loves me and that he cares. The rubbing of a thumb, waking up and my coffee being ready, a love letter by the coffee pot before I go to work. It doesn’t take much and each day he finds a way to let me know.
    I know how lucky I am. But I want him to show anger that we both lost something. It was ripped away from us. I know he is dealing with it in his own way but the fact that he doesn’t take it out on me is something that makes me not sure if I want to smile or cry .When we make it home, Trevor jumps out of the truck and runs around opening my door and pulling me into his arms. He totes me through the house and lays me on the bed. I watch him as he slips my shoes off and throws them to the floor. He slides the rest of my clothes off leaving only my panties and bra. Once he’s done he takes his clothes off and lays beside me in the bed.
    “I love you, Taylor.” He kisses my head.
    “I love you too, Trevor.” I lean my head back and push my lips against his.
    I trace my tongue along his lower lip and he opens his mouth letting me in. My tongue glides along his and he moans. He pushes me back against the mattress and climbs on top of me. I run my hands down his back. His hand moves down my stomach and he kisses my cheeks, eyes, nose and chin.
    He pulls back and smiles at me while he removes my thong and his boxers follow not long behind them. The feeling of him penetrating inside of me has me gripping his back with my nails. It feels like each nerve in my body is wide awake.
    His rhythm tells me that this is just what he needs to know that he hasn’t lost me. That the pain is something that we will make it through. I tell him with my eyes the words that I know he wants to hear. The tears running down his cheeks tell me that he knows just what I am saying.
    It’s not long before both of us are trying to catch our breath and come back down from a high that only the other can bring. He lays down beside me and pulls me into his arms not bothering to wash either of us off.
    Soon both of us are sleeping.

Chapter Seventeen
     
     
    I sit at the coffee table the next morning and stare at the man across from me. He is reading the paper and sipping his coffee. The pain isn’t as strong as it was before but it’s still a dull reminder as I think about what we could have had. I want to hate Kipper. I