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Our door will always be open to you, regardless of whether you bring Dylan or not.” “Actually, we’d prefer you to not bring Dylan,”
“Baby, it’s me. It’s Dylan. It’s okay. Everything’s okay. It was just a dream.”
Whatever he needs, he can have from me.
Maybe that’s why the whole encounter assumes a dreamlike feel, a sequence of mental snapshots that I’ll store away when he goes back into emotional hibernation.
I don’t have to be Mystic Meg to realise that the Gabe you’ve gone on about for two years, the bastard, is also the man who you’re in love with.”
Dylan, that man needs love like no one I’ve ever met before. It’s like he’s starved himself of any meaningful connection.”
This time I do, because I’ve never been so in love with one person, never felt that my happiness is so tied up in one surly, bad-tempered idiot.
It hurts to know that fate has given me the perfect person for me to love, but has failed to make it reciprocal.
He closes his eyes at my touch, leaning into it the way that a plant does to the sun. I take a deep breath. “I love you,” I say clearly, and his eyes fly open and I swallow hard at the look of blind panic there.
“No,” he says frantically. “Oh, don’t do that, Dylan. Don’t love me.”
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“But I do, and you knew that, Gabe. That’s what tonight was about after all wasn’t it? You wanted to let me k...
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I want to grow old with someone. I want to die knowing that I loved with all my heart, and to the best of my ability.”
“I wish you a good life, Dylan. I hope you find that someone who’ll appreciate you the way you should be appreciated. Someone who will look after you and make you happy the way you deserve. I hope that someone knows what a gift he’s been given. Someone warm and loving and loyal.”
He doesn’t trust love, and he doesn’t want it, because to him, it’s death.”
“I think he was in love with you, Dylan. The man who spent two hours telling me funny stories about you, and wanting to know whether you were okay, isn’t the prick he appeared to be.
“Oh my God,” he gasps. “Baby, are you okay?”
“He’s adorably high-handed where you’re concerned, isn’t he?” My eyes slide closed. “With anyone.” “No,” he says thoughtfully. “Only you. He really can’t be bothered with anyone else, unless they’re connected to you. You’re all he sees.”
You’ve challenged me and made me laugh, but irritation is far too bland an emotion to fit the range of the ones I have for you.”
I had been in too much pain to think very much about anything, but now I try to analyse what I feel, and the simple answer is – love.
It’s as inevitable as Christmas following Bonfire Night that I will keep loving him.
“I can’t believe you’re here,” he says hoarsely. “I’ve dreamt it so many times.”
“The truth is that I will always need you more than you need me. It’s also the truth that I’m not a good bet for someone as vital and young as you. I’m bad tempered, a perfectionist who is too serious, and too used to being on my own.
You could go out tomorrow and find someone better for you, but the truth is that no one will ever need you like I do.” He pauses and then says firmly. “No one will ever love you like I do.”
but the thought of anyone else touching you and being inside you makes me feel so angry. I can’t share you, Dylan.”
“Fuck, yes. I want the scent of my skin and my come all over you. I’m warning you, Dylan. I’ve discovered that I’m a very possessive man.”
“That’s it, baby. Fuck my mouth. Sit on my face, and fuck yourself with my tongue.”
“That’s so sexy,” I murmur, and he smiles. “I know. I could get addicted to that. Can’t wait until it’s my come in you.”
I can’t, because he’s it for me, and I love him deeply and fiercely. I don’t want to be without this tall, stern man with such a tender, hidden heart.
No one will ever need me like him. To him I’m necessary, and I like that.
He is my family. He’s everything to me.
“He said taking you to a supermarket was like taking Prince Philip to Laser Quest.”
“Baby, if you do this food shop, you have carte blanche for the week.”
I swallow hard, already thinking of all the depraved things I want to do to that fantastic body.
What I love most, however, is the ability to say our house.
He’d immediately set about giving me a home for the first time in my life.
I wouldn’t let anyone close, and if they offered I would take, but never give. I had been a selfish and cold man.
I’ve never known love the way that he gives it, and the only real way to describe it is … steadfast.
I find that I can care because I have Dylan, and I love him fiercely beyond any of my previous barriers.
I suppose what he does best is to encourage me to be the best, because he loves me. Maybe at its finest, that’s what love should be.
‘The Dukes of Hazard’, if you’d only rolled over the bumper.” “This is an Audi, you buffoon,”
“Don’t come near me,” he groans.
don’t actually think that I’ve got another fuck in me, and if my cock tells you differently just ignore him.”
“I’m glad you did. I’m so glad you ignored every single one of my rules.” He lifts his face, and to my amazement, his eyes are suspiciously shiny. “Because you did, I have a home again and a life, and fuck, most of all I have you, and you’re everything to me. Everything.”
“I’m not sure Charlie Hunnam would be flattered, but good name, daddy.” “Shut up,” he growls.
The man fucks like a dream, but his coffee tastes like something crawled up and died in the cup.
I want to see my ring on his finger and have him take my name, no matter how caveman it is. I want our lives entangled so deeply we won’t ever get free.
Why are we miles away from home in an unknown destination, and one of us is blindfolded in a sadly non-sexual manner?”
“Sweetheart, you’re my family. You have to know that by now. I’ve given up nothing at all to be with you. Instead, I’ve gained everything.”
“But that home was mine first. I love that you love it, and I adore the way it’s become our home, but I wanted us to have something that was ours from the beginning. Something we can make into our home here. I want you to be near your family and have everything.” He
