Let's Do This

by Loren Leigh

don’t have to turn around to know who’s behind me. I’d know his voice anywhere. I’d know it in my sleep, a thousand miles under water. I’d know it twenty years from now, even if I never saw him again after this moment.

just want to go somewhere where shit’s okay. Where I don’t have to pretend to be anything. And that’s kinda turning out to be your bed. But if that’s not where you’re headed, then I’ll go where you are.” His green eyes come up to meet mine. “Because I don’t think it’s actually about the bed.”

“I love you.” It comes out quietly, tenderly. But strong. Like the truth that it really is. “I want everything with you. A life. A home. Marriage. I’d give up Montreal in a heartbeat for that. I’d give you a home you’d never have to lose.”