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I didn’t want to be this person, this guy who sat around and waited for her to show up, was happy for the stolen moments, didn’t mind being the side dude, but I was this guy.
She could walk through the door and the look on her face would tell me whether she was happy, sad, horny, or bored, all reasons for her to visit, and I knew what to do for every occasion.
I loved Nicole Strickland, loved her before we ever made love. Loved her before I understood what it meant to be in love. Loved her despite the fact that she didn’t love me the way I wanted her to.
No, Nicky couldn’t marry him, wouldn’t marry him, because he wasn’t me. I was sure of that.
That was the beauty and the curse of being in love with your best friend. She told me everything,
You’re the only man I’ve ever given the luxury of going raw.
Now that he was a grown man and sexed me like a grown man? Damon’s penis was crack to me,
Three days later, I found myself in Damon’s lap, grinding and moaning during my lunch break.
he felt like home.
“I love you, Nick,” he murmured against my neck. “And I missed you.”
“You don’t have to say it back, because I know how you feel. I know you love me, too. Maybe not as much as I love you, but you love me. You just wish you didn’t.”
“I’m sorry for ever hurting you. I’m sorry you think there can’t be an us because of some stupid shit I did in high school. I wish I could take it back, baby, because I love you so much. I don’t know how to love anyone else.”
“Look at me and say that. Matter of fact, look at me and tell me you don’t love me. Tell me it’s him you want and not me.”
“I can’t.”
“You were wrong. You couldn’t possibly love me more than I love you. I’ve always loved you more. Always.”
Blind Man by Xavier Omär. I
“Travis, I would love to settle down with the woman I love, but I know if I looked her in the eye and told her how much I love her and miss her, fell down on my knees and begged her to forgive me for ever hurting her, promised to spend the rest of my life making it up to her and making love to her, told her how much I miss her smile, her goofy-ass laugh, the way she smells, the way she feels…she’d refuse me. I know she’d say no, so I can’t settle down. I can’t be with her, and to be honest, it kills me, because I don’t want anyone else.”
while Damon was the source of my pain, he was also the only effective remedy.
I was engaged to another man who had a reputation to protect, I’d just kissed a man I’d sworn I had no feelings for in my sisters’ presence, and I…didn’t care. At all.
I loved Damon Davis from the depths of my soul. I truly did.
Damon and I made love to that song. What we shared that night rivaled all the other intimate moments we’d shared over the years.
all I could do was blink back tears, grab my clutch from the table, and say, “I’m ready to go.”
You could search the whole world and you’ll never find a man who’ll love you more. There’s no way you could.”
“Now I fully realize I was trying to purge you from my system, to replace you and make the pain of being without you go away, but I couldn’t. And then you moved back, and things were like they were before sexually. It was only a part of you, but it was enough to keep me going, to make me feel better, to take some of the sadness away.”
but you have the misfortune of being in love with me.
“I’m afraid of being hurt again, by you. You see, you’re the only man who can hurt me, because you’re the only man I have ever loved. You’re the only man I will ever love. You own my heart, all my love, and with that kind of possession comes a lot of power. You can easily break me. You’ve done it before, and I don’t ever, ever want to feel that pain again. I’m terrified of your power and your hold on my heart.”
“This is what they want,” he murmured. “But they can’t have it. Can they?”
“You ain’t leaving, either. The fuck you thought this was? This is forever, Nick. You don’t get to leave me. Not today or tomorrow. Not ever.”
