| She felt her heart pound against her chest and her breath was coming in short gasps. Sully saw the wind had blown some hair over her face. He slowly lifted a hand to her face and gently removed the strand of hair from her face. Their eyes were locked together. Sully cupped her cheek and Michaela could feel her face get hot. She leaned in towards him and Sully gently placed his lips on hers. Michaela felt her skin tingle all over and put her arms around his shoulders to pull him closer deepening their kiss. Sully ran his hands through her long silky hair. The kiss seemed to go on forever. Neither one of them wanted the moment to stop, but Michaela hesitantly pulled away. They were both out of breath, and held each other tight.
Michaela couldn�t believe what had just happened. She was never one to kiss someone whom she had just met, but there was something about this man. When they kissed something deep inside her had awakened. Ch 6 Michaela rested her head on Sully's chest and closed her eyes. It felt so right to be there, she felt safe and happier than she had in a while. Sully's heart wouldn't stop racing. He had never felt like this before. He felt complete and needed something no other woman had been able to make him feel. He tightened his arms around Michaela and took in a deep breath. "Roses?" Michaela looked at him with a question in her eyes. "Your hair, it smells like roses." He grabbed a strand of her hair and smelled it again. "Mmm-hmmm my favorite." Michaela stood on her toes and gave him a light kiss on the cheek. "Michaela? " "Hmmm" "I think we should start heading back. �Sully looked up at the sky and noticed that a storm was heading their way. "Do we have to go back so soon?" Sully smiled and held on to her even tighter. "If we don't head back now we are going to get caught in a storm." Sully broke their embrace, held his hand out for her and they started to walk back. "So why do you have people call you by your last name?" Sully chuckled and squeezed her hand. "Because I don't really like my first name." "Oh? What is your name?" Michaela stopped walking and turned to face Sully. After a moments silence Sully sighed and whispered "Byron" "Byron? Were you named after someone?" "Yeah my mom named me after a legend she heard as she was growing up." "A legend?" "More of a love story if you ask me." Sully smiled as he pulled her hand up to give it a kiss. They started walking and Sully began to tell Michaela about the story he�d heard growing up. �You see a long time ago a lady doctor from Boston came to Colorado Springs. Back then ladies were supposed to take care of the house. They weren�t supposed to have careers, much less be doctors.� �So I take it people weren�t real friendly toward her were they?� �Nope. It took a while but they finally came around. Anyway, one of the first people that accepted her was a mountain man named Byron Sully.� �Ah, the love interest.� Michaela leaned closer to him resting her head on his shoulder as they kept walking. �Right again.� Sully put his arm around her shoulders bringing her closer to him. �Well, the lady doc brought him back into civilization. See his wife had died giving birth to their baby girl and shortly after she died too. So he took off and secluded himself from everything. Then when the doctor arrived they became friends and as time went by they began to realize that they needed each other. Their friendship soon grew into love and they got married.� �So they lived happily ever after?� �Not exactly, a couple of years after they were married she came down with a bad case of influenza and made him promise her that they would always be together before she died.� |