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You’re the whole damn flower.
I’m always going to protect you. Until the end of time.”
I’ve never forgotten what it feels like to kiss him. I still feel him there every time I touch my face.
unmistakable gold ring looped through it, hanging at the center of his chest, pressing against the tattoo across his heart.
“You did hear me say your name. The name I’ve been moaning every time I fuck my fist for the last ten years.”
“Darby,” he rasps. I look at his eyes again. “Do you ever think of me?” I feel my face go red, but not with embarrassment. With need. With desperation. “Yes,” I whisper. “When?” “Every time I close my eyes.”
“Eyes on me, Honeysuckle. I want you looking at me as you come.” “Fuck.”
“All we are is lost time.”
wanted you to be dumb and seventeen, and I also think your dad is a bit of an asshole, so I’m not going to say anything.”
I don’t want you living a life that isn’t really yours.”
“You are, without a doubt, the most beautiful person I’ve ever laid my eyes on.”
“They’re beautiful and perfect.” “Just like you.” God, he is not real.
But in the daylight, things might be different.
“I’m going to love your body no matter what,” I promise her. “So, that means you should too. I will take personal offense if you hate something I like so much. Understand?”
“When you tell me you love me for the first time, Honeysuckle, I want you to look me in the eye. I don’t want to ever hear the word maybe in that sentence either. When you say that to me, I want you to mean it.”
You make me feel like I’m worth something.”
“You don’t need a piece of my soul, Honeysuckle. You already own the whole goddamn thing.”
“I remember everything about us, Honeysuckle,”
Something about being sweet as a honeysuckle and falling in love with the same person over and over again.
“I asked you a question, baby. Are you listening to this right now? You get it?”
“You know what it means when I kiss you, right?” “Yes,”
I’ve always known what it means to kiss Leo Graham. I’ve known what it’s like to find him, to lose him, and to find him again. I know what life is like with him and what life is like without him.
And finally, finally, I find my way back home.
“I’ll be that for you too.”
The reminder that she’s real. That we’re real. We’ve always been real.
After ten years of drought, my soul is experiencing its first rainfall,
“Yeah, baby. We’re only going to need one from here on out.”
Tonight, I think we’ve both finally realized the only place you belong is right here next to me.”
“I promised I’d always keep you safe. I’ll always be there for you. I came out here to keep that promise, and I’ve also realized I never fell out of love with you, either.”
“Did you look for me in the dark? Did you try to hear my voice?” “I tried.” She nods. “But I think your voice got drowned out by the howls of wolves.”
“Yes, Honeysuckle. I’m so fucking angry with you for breaking my heart.”
“But you’re here now, wanting me.” “I do,” she whispers. “I always have.”
“I don’t want to be destroyed tonight, Darby,” I whisper against her sweet skin. “Damn the past. I just want to be put back together.”
Kissing her feels like a breath of air after a decade underwater, like weaving through waves after so many years with my feet on the ground. Like floating after drowning.
“I haven’t been with anyone since you, so I’m good too,”
Darby. My honeysuckle. My first love. My only love.
“And I’ve always been yours, Leo.”
Heathen.
She’s always been mine.
God, we’re stupid.
“I also survived seventeen years without you, Honeysuckle. Doesn’t mean I ever want to live without you again.”
I think the honey-eyed golden girl might be in love with me. And I know for certain I’m in love with her.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed that, but it’s the place your hands are always drawn to. You’ve marked it with your touch, and I’ve made that permanent with ink.”
“I’m about to show you what it’s like to fuck a surfer.”
“Then why don’t you get on your knees and taste what a bad girl you are?”
“Suck, honey.”
“Do not stop touching yourself. Do not stop sucking my cock.”
“Should I answer it? Let him know you’re busy right now? Should I let him listen while I fuck your pretty little throat?”
I lift my head from the mattress and realize for the first time the mirror on the other side of the room.
“When I watch myself fuck you, it looks like coming home. But when you tighten around my cock, honey—” My body clenches at
