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“I’ve fallen in love with you several times since I met you, Ms. Sanders,” he spoke, tender and so sure.
“The first time was the Monday after you ran out of the garage.” After our first kiss. “And I found you asleep with Maya on the couch. I don’t know how long I sat there and watched you two, but that was the first time I knew. It was more of a slow-burn realization than a jump like you mentioned.”
“Since I’d been falling in love with you from that very first day you walked through my door.”
“The second time was when you frosted my beard with pink icing. Third time was the water fight later that night. Fourth, when you fearlessly called Heather out after she hit me. And then about a hundred times after that.”
“Sometimes I fall in love with you when I’m just thinking about you. Sometimes you’re standing right next to me when it happens.”
“Maybe you’ve got it backwards,” he heartened, face lowering to mine. “Maybe you’re my hero.” “I hate maybes.” “And I love you,” he hummed. “Deeply and wildly out of my control.”
“It got so bad, I was in pain whenever you were around and in agony whenever you weren’t.”
“I have never in my life been reduced so completely to such a primal state before. I wanted you so madly, I felt it with every part of me. Every fiber, every molecule I possess, you possessed until you were all I thought about. You turned me into a man of want and need for something I couldn’t have… and you had fun with it.”
“Now it’s my turn to have fun, Ms. Sanders.” Except ‘fun’ sounded a hell of a lot like ‘payback is gonna be a kinky bitch.’ “Are you gonna be mean to me?” I asked, tracking my eyes over his sculpted face. “Extremely.” “Are you gonna let me come?” He held his answer back like he was really, truly considering it. “Eventually.”
“I’m going to put my mouth right here,” I gasped as he cupped my core, grabbing it like he owned it and washing my lips in his rough voice, “and I’m going to spell out my name and listen as you scream it.”
“But I’ll kiss your tears away as many times as you need me to, and I’ll never get tired of it.”
We were the crossed stars tied up in the constellations, the twin flames unchecked and unbound, the mirrored pieces of a heart broken in half at birth. We’d been unwittingly set off on a path to find each other before we knew what we were searching for, but Dominic had figured it out quickly.
I’d find her by tonight, and the only thing keeping me breathing was picturing her and I back at my new place, buried under the sheets and buried inside each other. I’d never let her go again after this. Not in a hundred years.
The man arrogant enough to hide my girl from me and think I wouldn’t tear a hole through the universe to find her.
Maybe I had it wrong all these years hating men. I shouldn’t have discriminated. I should have been hating everyone until proven otherwise.
“I feel better actually. I think I just needed to hit something.” “Yeah, but did it have to be my face?” A quiet beat sat. I nodded. “Yeah. I think it did.”
“No one would ever be stupid enough to take you away from me, I hope you know. And if they were, I would find you. No matter how long it took or where I had to go, I would find you, I would slay your monsters, and I would never let you out of my arms again.”
“I waited my entire life to fall in love with you. I’m not losing you now.”
