“You seem so tense. Shouldn’t we be celebrating?” “I’m tense because I couldn’t wait to get here and tell you.” “And that’s a bad thing?” He huffed out a breath. “I can’t sleep in our bed another night without burying myself in you. It’s all I fucking think about, Sav. How badly I want you. And I don’t want to fuck up this friendship, because I’ve missed you so much, and I don’t know how to deal with all of it. How to deal with the way I feel about you.” It came out in a flustered burst of words, like he couldn’t hold them in anymore. I was stunned, because Hayes wasn’t big on feelings, nor
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