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“Someday, Mac, you’re going to realize exactly how much I enjoy staring at you all day.” I can feel the tips of my ears go pink as my eyes widen. “But not today. Today, the plan is to stare at you until you tell me what you thought of what you heard.”
you make a tiny little gasping noise every time I’m close enough to touch you.”
“Don’t fidget. Don’t adjust. You look…” he stops himself and swallows. “You look fine.”
Since it’s fiction, it’s safe to feel an entire range of emotion we may otherwise hold ourselves back from in real life.
I move to wrap my arms around my abdomen and take a step back, but I jolt as my back hits the wall behind me. Daniel reaches out to grab my wrist. “Don’t.” The word stops me, same as it did in the park, but he continues. “Don’t cover yourself. Don’t shrink away. You can say no to me, but don’t for one second think that you need to cower or feel embarrassed. You are fucking beautiful. You are beautiful tonight, and you were beautiful when I scared the shit out of you on your run, and you are beautiful every damn day from the minute you walk into my line of sight until the minute you walk out.”
Let me kiss you.”
“She always brought out the best in me. She was the sun, and I was the moon, just reflecting her light most of the time.” I fall silent at that, willing the tears not to start falling again.
It’s not lost on me that the feeling rumbling inside me is the same feeling of romantic sensuality I experienced while curled up under my dorm room blankets reading