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“Hey, beautiful, you slummin’ it again tonight?”
“Not at all. And for the record, I grew up in a small ass house, not with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
The only thing that feels out of place is the sensation coming from the man a few feet away.
And when he slowly lifts his gaze to mine—static.
I heard they share women.
Butterflies swarm me when he’s around, and my body draws tight every time he pulls me close. I’ve memorized his body, aching daily to shift our relationship from friends to more. His refusal to act on our chemistry is driving me up the wall. At the same time, I love the delicious anticipation, the feel of his eyes on me as I take a shot at the pool table, the feel of his fingers tracing the water on my skin.
Now is now, later will eventually be now. Don’t be a slave to the insanity of keeping time and keeping up. Now is the only thing you have control over, and even so, it’s an illusion.”
“The sadder truth is that the only way to conquer the fear of dying is by dying.”
Alfred Sean Roberts
“I’m good at reading people. Anticipating what they want. Yours?”
“I don’t do things the way most people do when it comes to any aspect of life. I follow my gut, my instincts on everything, and answer to very few.”
“It means I belong to myself, Cecelia, at all times. And I choose carefully who to spend my now with. I’m selfish with my time
and sometimes, about the things I want.”
“But whatever choices I make, I work with, with little regret, no mat...
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“It can be.”
If I’m interpreting him right, he’s not the boyfriend type, or the commitment type, though his actions in the last few weeks of knowing him have been contradictory.
But it’s no longer my need to define us that has me staring down at him in wonder. It’s the ache, the throb, the need to get closer that has me studying the definition of his biceps, the muscular expanse of his chest.
his voice filled with pure lust
“Took you long enough.”
I’m taking my time. You took yours.”
“I didn’t know that’s what you wanted.”
“The hell you didn’t. I was letting you make...
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“You were,” my eyes roll back with the next stroke of his finge...
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“I wanted you...
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It took me months to figure out how to orgasm alone, practice to pinpoint the parts of my anatomy that set me off, and this man has managed to find them all within mere minutes. Superpower on full display.
“No, but you’re more. A lot more.”
“Meaning with you, right now, I’m feeling a little selfish.”
“It’s a very bad thing.”
The man has confidence in spades, a smile that could melt the panties off a nun, and eyes that convey everything without him speaking a word.
Actions over words, that’s what I’m taking with a grain of salt over Sean’s cautious words on my birthday.
“Take it slow,”
“we’ve got all the time in the world.”
“Damn…you…” he grunts, picking up his pace, “you are so much trouble.”
“We have all the time in the world, right?”
“Right.”
“What’s wrong?” His gaze clears and he shakes his head, his shoulders going lax.
“Nothing,” he strokes my skin, cupping my breasts, “nothing at all,” he repeats, before claiming my mouth possessively....
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“New rule. No phones with me.”
“A few reasons, one of them being this is my time. I’m choosing to spend it with you, and I want the same from you.”
“If I asked you to please trust me enough and that an explanation will come later, would you?”
“We aren’t there yet.”
“I know, but it’s a dealbreaker for me.”
He’s everything I didn’t know I wanted in a man and so much more than I ever hoped to have. He’s considerate, thoughtful, and ridiculously smart, and my attraction to him is boundless on so many levels. With him, I feel lucky, like I won some sort of man lottery. And in a way, that makes me fearful.
My heart is no longer hiding in the shadows, it’s dancing in the open now, much like we were in the bar last night.
“I know, baby, I’m with you.”
For so long, I’ve been in hiding, and in a month of knowing him, it’s like he’s freed me.
I open the door and am met with the sight of Dominic in the bedroom on the opposite side of the hall. Naked. Sleeping naked.
The sight of him knocks the breath from me as I stand frozen, somewhere between in and out of the bathroom.
I. Can’t. Look. Away.
My eyes dip to where his cock rests between his muscular thighs. Jesus, he’s beautiful.
