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“Ash?” a voice said. I straightened my spine. I’d know that voice anywhere. If I had slipped into a coma, it would wake me up. If I was six feet under, I’d dig myself out of the grave just to be closer to it, which was dramatic and startling and tragic and stupid. But it was true. “It’s just me out here,” he said. “The bar’s cleared out.” I’ll love you until we’re dust in the wind, Camille Ashwood. “I’m here, Cam.”
“You brought me to a fucking Chili’s?” Cam said with a shocked laugh. I smiled over at her as I cut the engine. “Sure did.”
Dusty kissed me again—he didn’t care that my mom was watching. “I’ll get you out of here someday, I promise.”
Dusty put a hand on my cheek and looked straight into my soul. “I’ll love you until we’re dust, Camille Ashwood.”
“Don’t do that,” he said. “Don’t hide from me. I want to see you.”
“No. You’re a privilege, Cam. Being in your presence is a goddamn honor.”
“You’ve always been a sure thing to me,” he said softly.
“Ash, I tried friends. I really did. But friends don’t feel the way I do about you,” he said as he pulled me even closer to him. Our bodies were touching now. “Or the way you feel about me.” I could feel his breath on my face. “I’ve waited half a lifetime for you, Cam.”
“I’ve been waiting for this for over a decade, angel,” he said. His other hand pushed my underwear to the side. “I don’t want to do anything fast with you.”
“I’ve been waiting a long time to get my mouth on you again,” he whispered darkly. “And I’m nowhere close to done.”
“Everything,” I whispered. “I want you to be everything.”
“Don’t rush me,” he said against my ear. “I want to spend all night worshipping your body—learning all of the things I don’t know about it and remembering all of the things that I do.”
“I’m not a fumbling teenager anymore, angel, and when I tell you I want to take my time, I’m going to take my time, and you’re going to love it. And then, when you’re ready, I want you to take what you want. I want you to take everything from me that you’ve missed in the last fifteen years, yeah?”
“That’s my girl,”
“You had to throw in the please,” he said with a breathy laugh. “Such a good fucking girl.”
There’s a reason that rearview mirrors are small and windshields are big.”
“And I know it’s different, but if I had a second chance to be with the person who felt like the sun and rain and air and everything, I would take it without another thought.”
“You’re wrong, angel, I fucking love being on my knees for you,”
I know the fact that I’ve been in love with you since I was seventeen is kind of ridiculous, and I know you’re mad at me, and you have every right to be. But, god, you are everything to me. You always have been, you always will be.
“I do love you,” he said. “I love you madly and deeply. I love you in ways that people don’t believe exist in real life. I love you for who you’ve been and who you are and who you’re going to be, Ash.”
