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The way this man kisses me takes my fucking breath away. Like I’m all that matters, like I’m fucking everything.
It’s almost like I would die if I didn’t have him.
How can this feel so perfect? It didn’t even feel like this with James. Nothing has ever felt like this.
“This is mine,”
“Yes, it’s yours. Take it,”
“Fuck yes, you're mine. You’re all fucking mine.
“Mine,”
Leaning over, I take his mouth. “Mine,” I say against his lips. I kiss his cheek. “Mine.” I kiss his neck. “Mine." I work my way around his face, marking every single bit of it as mine. “I may be scared, but I’m not scared enough to let you go.”
He plans on keeping me around? The thought of it makes my heart quicken its pace. I want so badly to be kept around.
In this moment, dancing with Nora and Liam, I realize my world is being spun off its axis, because I am falling in love. And not just a little bit. I’m falling in a my life has officially changed forever kind of love. I turn Liam around, pulling him into a searing kiss, one that I try to pour every single one of my emotions into. Appreciation. Affection. Awe.
“You’re insane.”
“Insane about you,”
“I’ve never been in love, Julian,” I admit with honesty I’ve never set free. “I…I’m in awe of us, of the way we feel together. We fit, and I've never...
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I won’t try to fix you, but I’ll be here to help you make peace with your broken pieces,”
He doesn’t just feel like home. He feels like everything.
“Is there room in there for me?” I ask, touching his heart with my palm. “Can you spare a sliver for me in this heart of yours? I’ll never take James’ spot, and I don’t want to, but I need to know if you can carve out a piece for me, too.”
“You’re already in there, Liam. You’ve already got your own spot, right there. Only you,”
“God, you’re so perfect, so perfect for me.”
I swear I’m drowning. I’m fucking drowning in him.
“I’ve realized that life ends, but love doesn’t. I’ll never stop loving you,” I stammer, my voice trembling. “You were the man I loved when I had you. Liam can be the man I love in a world without you,”
“My heart was half-empty without you here. I’m going to let Liam fill it up again.”
She’s taking him away from me. The world I want is leaving, and I’m getting banished to one I want no part of anymore.
“No,” I whisper, reaching my hand out for Julian.
He doesn’t even look back. He doesn’t look back once.
“Everything! Everything about him is special. He’s everything you're not, and everything you’ll never be,”
I gave Liam all the empty spaces of my heart, and now it’s shattered into so many pieces that I’m surprised it’s still beating.
The pillow that no longer smells like Liam.
The pillow that no longer smells like James.
“Did you see his face? Did you see how ashamed he was of me? He was ashamed of me, Nora. Ashamed of us!”
Who knew you could mourn the living?
Just Julian. It will always be just Julian.
I miss Julian so much, it’s like the air has been sucked out of me. My bones will never let me forget him. They won’t forget the way they felt when our hands were intertwined. They won’t forget what they felt like when he was snuggled up next to me. They won’t forget the way they felt when he was on top of me, around me, inside me.
We’re like two magnets, powerless against colliding.
“You’re insane,” he whispers when we’re face to face. “You’re insane, and I love you.”
Grabbing his hands, I pull him into my chest, smashing my mouth against his. That’s right. I’m making my statement. I don’t give a fuck who sees us. I don’t care what everyone at...
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Julian is mine, and I’m...
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I drown out the loud claps around me, immersing myself into the man whom I’ve been without, into the man ...
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My Julian.
I’ve been drowning in a sea of sadness, my world black and white until he showed up. When I'm with him, life is better. Everything is brighter, more alive. He’s the man who made me live again. I didn’t find love, it found me. Call it fate, call it destiny, maybe it was written in the stars. Maybe every single moment of my life was meant to lead up to this moment. I don’t know, and I don’t care.
Whatever this is, it’s undeniable. It’s like the world is pushing us together, making us belong to each other.
His hand belongs in mine. It’s where it’s supposed to be.
Yes. I got two happily ever afters. I’m the luckiest man in the world.
