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“And for the record, I think Exxon is doing a beautiful job with your hair, and it’s cute when you dress like a tampon, and there is a man who cares way too much for you, and he’s not your father.”
“Who else puts a tingle in your dingle?” “Dingle? Poison, I’m way too big to dingle.” “Okay,” she quips. “Who puts a big gong in your giant dong?” I laugh, wrapping my arms around her. “Woman, you have a PhD in killing me.”
“Why do you call me ‘poison’? I get calling someone ‘baby’ or kinky names during sex, but poison is deadly and—” “Because it kills me, Vale.” He lifts my chin so our eyes meet. “It kills me to want you like this, to feel this way about you, knowing no one can ever know, and we can never really be together.”
You ask me who I choose, but there is no choice. I pick you, Vale, every time, all the time.”
Gently, he puts his forehead to mine, nuzzling our noses. With another breath, he sighs, “You’re the best I’ve ever had, and that’s the only test you need to pass.”
“You were never broken, Vale.” Love strains my voice. “You were always mine.” A sob escapes her throat as I kiss the tears falling over her flushed cheek. Her cries—joy, relief, awe, gratitude, pleasure … and something else—flood my heart. I hold her while it rains through us. I didn’t know I could feel this much for a woman. It’s overwhelming and undeniable. It makes me confess everything I’ve hidden for years, “Poison, you take my breath away, and you can have it. I belong to you, too.”
I’m an evil man for wanting her, a redeemed man for having her. I will burn in hell for this heaven, and let’s go. I was going to hell anyway.
“Give it back to me.” “What?” I ask tenderly. I’m confused. “My kiss.” She lifts her lips to mine. “Give it back to me, Nash. Only you can.”
“Is it a surprise that I love you? I love you, and I mean it—I’m never letting you go again. You’re mine. I’ll give my life for you, too.”
“I love you, my poison,” I murmur over our lips. “I love you, too,” she whispers, “you sexy dickhead.”
“Bet on us, Vale.” His lips press to my ear. “Let me love you. Let me inside forever, and I promise I’ll never leave.”
Nash lets me search his heated brown eyes. They’re a deep storm of lust and love. So much love. Every day, he proves it. Every night, I feel it. This is my beast, my man. He is honest. He’s telling me what he can, and when he can’t … I trust it’s to protect me.
