The Hardest Fall

by Ella Maise

“Zoe, I don’t think I’ll ever let you out of this bed again.”

“What? These? I’m not hurt at all, Kayla. I’m just pissed I didn’t get the chance to hurt him myself, so don’t even think about that part of it.”

“I didn’t bring you here so you could fuck the football team. You’re just like your mom, aren’t you? Just a slut going after football players.”

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“Keep me, Flash. I’m a good catch.”

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“I have this ache, right here, and every morning I woke up these last two weeks, I would have this moment, that first second after I opened my eyes, where I thought, Get up, Zoe, get up and see Dylan. Get up and go to his bed. Get up and have breakfast with him—he’s waiting for you in the kitchen. Then I’d realize I couldn’t do any of that.”

“I’m not going to stay away from you until draft day, Flash. You can get that out of your head right now. Now that I know everything, nothing you say can keep me away from you.”

“I saw how hard you worked to get where you are—just living with you for a few months was enough for me to see that. I’m not gonna be the reason for even the possibility that—” “What are you asking of me?” “Just don’t make it obvious that you know, that’s all.”

“Okay, don’t freak out, but I’m falling for you so hard, Dylan Reed—complete free fall. I’ll probably land pretty soon, too.”

“That’s easy, Flash. You’re my best friend, like I told you you’d be, and I already love your brand of weird. I’ll never forget seeing those neatly stacked M&Ms in the kitchen, and the love you have for pizza? That’s a whole other level of weirdness.”

“I’ll catch you when you land, Flash. Just don’t take too much time, because I’m already there, impatiently waiting for you.”

“I didn’t even get a chance to learn what turns you on,” he murmured right before sucking and gently biting the skin on my neck.

“You telling me you’re wet for me?”

“Easy, baby,” he whispered, one of his hands gently tangling in my hair and smoothing the pain away. “You want me?”

“I wish I could capture this moment,” I whispered. “You…just looking at me the way you do.”

“You’ll have all the time in the world to do anything you want to do to me, Zoe. Trust me.”

“You have no idea how much I missed you, Flash. Missed being inside you. Feeling you work my cock. Fucking you.”

“Are you going to come on my cock? Do you want me to give it to you harder?”

“Yeah, that’s it, baby. I’m going to fuck your sweet pussy every day until my last breath, Zoe,”

“I wish I could’ve been your first. I know I probably sound like a caveman saying that, but even picturing you near another man makes the blood boil in my veins. I can’t stand to picture you in someone else’s bed, lying just like this.” He pulled me closer. “Just me from now on—I’ll be the only one touching you, kissing you, holding you, fucking you.”

“I always want you with me—don’t you know that by now?

“I’ve always wanted you, Zoe Clarke.”

“With the second pick of the 2018 NFL draft, the New York Giants select Dylan Reed, wide receiver…”

Husband—every time the word left her mouth, my chest puffed up, and I couldn’t help but feel proud. She was mine, my Flash, and I was the luckiest bastard to walk this earth.

It’s hard to explain what draws you to a person, what it is about them that makes them so special that you give them your heart. I believe it’s all about who you are together, how you are together. It’s simple, what I feel for her—simple, and the most powerful thing in the world. We chose each other, and we’d keep choosing each other long after we took our last breaths on this earth. Zoe Clarke was my forever, the love of my life, and I was hers.