“Tonight,” he said in response to my arousal. “If I take you now, I won’t want to stop, and I want more than sex today.” I want you, he didn’t say, but didn’t have to because there wasn’t much his heart could hide from me. I was grateful he didn’t vocalize it, though. Grateful I didn’t have to ruin things with a reminder of what couldn’t be, especially when day by day I was finding it harder to hold on to the reasons why not.
