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“Do you make it a habit to sacrifice things that make you happy for others’ comfort?”
I just think sometimes we lose ourselves in our compromises and forget that ‘no’ is a full sentence.”
“Do you, um, do you like it?” “It’s not my favorite drink, but it’s good.” She tilts her head to the side, taking me in. “What’s your favorite drink?” I take a moment to study her, gliding my gaze down her form, lingering a second too long on those God damn waist beads, and then back to her face. “I haven’t had it yet.”
“I like how you just took all the credit like I didn’t kiss you too.”
“I feel like I need you. I need my lips on yours and my hands on your body. I feel like I need to make you feel good right now or I just might explode.”
“I was right,” he says, proudly. “About what?” “You are my favorite drink.”
Be selfish with me. Give me all your yeses this week and I promise I’ll take care of them. And you.”
“Ass. How long have you been up?” “You mean how long have I noticed you staring at my skin like you wanna wear it? A while.”
“Umm, okay.” “No questions?” “Were there supposed to be? I thought you told me to just trust you.” “I’m just impressed you’re listening. Let me find out you’re a good girl after all.” Heat rushes to my core, leaving me breathless. “Keep playing, you’ll find out what a good girl I am.”
I fuck with sea turtles heavy because they’re loners. They actually rarely interact with each other unless they’re mating and I respect that, because if you’re not clapping these cheeks why are you in my space?”
“First of all, you need to stop worrying about other people for a second. You don’t have to repay people for every little thing they do for you. The people who really fuck with you don’t give a shit about that.
“I can pay for some fruit, Rome.” “I know you can, but when you’re in my presence you should never be reaching for your wallet.” “I give you one romance book and you don’t know how to act.”
“Sometimes the people who are supposed to love you the most are the ones who hurt you the worst. They don’t get a pass just because they’re family. Choose yourself.”
“I don’t have enough to bind your feet so I’m going to leave them free. I’m trusting you to not use them to touch me, J. Can you be my good girl and do that for me?”
“I want you to see me worship your body, J. Worship you.” Her forehead creases and even through the scarf I can see her eyebrows pique. “Not with your eyes, J. I want you to really see me,” I whisper in her ear. “Feel me. Can you do that for me?” “Yes!”
“I’m not surprised. Rome’s a good guy.” “He is. Probably one of the best. There’s one thing you should probably know about him.” “What’s that?” “Once he’s decided he wants something? He works relentlessly to get it. And keep it.” And there it is. He knows.
He shrugs nonchalantly. “Don’t do that.” “Do what?” “Minimize the effect you have on my happiness. That made my day today.” “Whatever you need and want, whenever you need and want it. I’m not gonna repeat myself again, J.”
“Unless I’m laying you down and driving you to the brink of insanity with my dick you should never see the backseat of my car. Get your ass to the front.”
“Yep. If you don’t do things that scare you, how can you say you’ve really lived? Me personally? I want to look back on my life and know I was brave enough to do the things that brought me joy despite the risks, even if they didn’t work out.”
“You do know that buying me a whole new collection of body jewelry doesn’t give you the right to continuously rip them off me, right?” “Debatable.” “Rome!” She playfully slaps my arm. “Listen, you need to own your part here,” I laugh. “I was prepared to be on my Olivia Pope ‘you want me, earn me’ shit after you played games at the cenote, but you showed up looking too damn tempting.”
Rome: Put my girlfriend on the phone she talks to me nice
I think a part of me knew when I met her that we would end up here and that’s why I stayed away.
“You are the one person I trust the most with my yeses. So, of course, I’ll give you this one too.”
