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Oppressing someone with love is still oppression. Even if it’s because they want to protect us.
Connor gives me a noogie. “What’s up, little brother?” Asher leans around him. “Say the word. I know a few hit men who could take him out.”
It’s been years. Years and years since Easton Kikishkin got under my skin, and I plan on it being many more years that he hangs out there and I do nothing about it.
Instead of getting angry like I normally would, I sweetly address the overprotective nutcase Mom and Dad turned Connor into.
“I dunno, I’m pretty good at helping men find God. You’d know that if you weren’t somehow immune to all my offers.”
He’s been picturing us getting married and buying a house in the suburbs and having two dogs and an ice rink in the backyard.” I hate how perfect that sounds, except for one part. “I’m allergic to dogs.” “We’ll have kids, then.”
Though, with how he’s been staring at you today, like he’s been on a diet and you’re the only candy bar in the entire universe, I’d say the only reason he rejected you is because of your brother. Or because you were drunk. And we love a king of consent.”
Unloosen the damn leash that’s starting to feel like a noose, please.
It’s really flattering to know that even in his drunken state, he was still able to reject me so easily. Makes me feel so great about myself.
and then we line up to thank our goalie with helmet taps. When I’d watch hockey as a kid and saw this ritual, I used to always think, “Now kiss!” It never happened.
Miles only became a goalie so he could have physical affection from his teammates when they win. You should see the way he pouts when we lose. He’s practically in his crease singing ‘All by myyyysellllf.’ It’s heartbreaking, dude.”
For all the talk of old times and past crushes, Easton wants to kiss me. And I want to kiss him. Here and now.
The second our lips touch, I’m terrified because that’s all the time it takes to know that I’ve made the worst mistake of my life. East’s lips are as soft as I always thought they would be. He melts in my hold the way I imagined. His jaw fits in my hand with the exact perfection I’d always assumed it would, and as we kiss, as my guts fill with helium and my heart feels too big to contain, I work out that there’s only one thing worse than your dream man being nothing like you thought he would be. And that’s your dream man being everything you imagined.
And somehow, I need to go back to my life and forget that, for one moment, East and I had something. Something just ours.
Connor and Knox are lucky they got a different flight back because otherwise, I’d be tempted to be one of those mentally unwell people who try to open the door mid-flight so I could toss them both out.
I’ve had feelings for you for close to half my life, and I don’t know how to be me without them.” “Then don’t. Don’t even try.”
