They wouldn’t buy that a woman like you would ever care for someone like me.” The way his voice dips at the end, the way the fire in his eyes dies down as he admonishes himself sends an unfamiliar squeeze to my chest. Part of that is the shock of hearing him praise me so highly. I never knew he thought any of that about me. No one has ever made me feel so confident, so wanted in less than three minutes. And to hear it from a guy who I considered so far out of my league for so long is even more mind-blowing. “But I’d be the luckiest guy in the world if you did.”
