Chapter 339: Lay On Me.
"Nick," Arissa called him softly and cautiously, she held both sides of his burning-hot face and forced him to look at her.
"I did not say I love you to leave you in the next second or on your bad days. I said I love you because I meant it and I can’t tell how it happened to make you believe it more than you do but I’m sure about what I feel," she leaned down and placed a kiss on his forehead, "I love you and I’ll forever be with you. I won’t mind being with you after we become ghosts,"
Nicklaus caught hold of her wrist on his face, "I do not doubt you," he said to her.
Arissa searched his eyes and then she took her hands off his face and proceeded to claim off the bed. Nicklaus caught hold of her naked waist before she would move an inch further.
"Where are you going?" he panicked. His parent’s memory got the best of him and he feared Arissa would leave the moment she got out of bed.
Nicklaus’s grip on her waist was strong but Arissa did not complain. She turned to him patiently and replied, "I want to get a bowl of water to calm you down. Your temperature isn’t to be taken lightly anymore,"
"Oh," Nicklaus murmured, embarrassed by his overreaction. He slowly let go of his grip on her waist and after smiling assuredly at him, she climbed off the bed with a duvet wrapped around her and walked into the bathroom.
As she searched for a hand towel inside her small wardrobe in the bathroom, her mind wandered around to a thousand reasons that could make Nicklaus act the way he did and suddenly turn so hot.
Her thought went over to his biological mother and Arissa held the woman as a top suspect. How he asked her to always be beside him made her suspect his biological mother more. Perhaps, she triggered him to remember his mother.