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There! I did it. I spoke. Take that, everyone! Words were totally my bitch.
Rider reached down and took my hand in his. The contact sent a jolt through me,
That didn’t reassure me, but I’d be lying if I said my heart didn’t do a happy set of jumping jacks this time.
His lashes lowered and the lopsided grin appeared. “I always knew you’d be beautiful one day.”
A flush swept across his cheeks as one side of his lips kicked up. “I just never thought I’d get to see how beautiful you’d become.”
but the feel of his skin under my lips was still unnerving and unexpected.
Holy crap. I’d spoken without hesitation at lunch! Holy crap! No one recognized my internal freak-out over it, but I couldn’t believe it. I sat there and spoke with no problem. I needed to give myself a cookie.
“I know you deserve better, but I want to be better. I want to be that for you.”
He lingered longer, as if following the path of my lips, learning it and committing them to memory.
I wasn’t thinking about anything other than how he made me feel, how he kissed me, touched me, like I was something precious and invaluable to him.
Forever was something we all took for granted, but the problem with forever was that it really didn’t exist.
I learned that those who are always helping others help themselves last.
