"Baby." He said my name like a purr that reached the vertebrae of my spine. See?”ĭex's thumbs tipped my chin back so that I could look at his face-at his beautiful, scruffy face. “I’m thinking that I love you so much it scares me. I held my hands out for him to see how badly they were shaking. In this case, I’d take his nipple piercings. I had my entire life ahead of me, and I needed to quit being a wuss and grab life by the balls. For so long I’d been happy to just be alive but now.now I had Dex. What kind of life was I living if I let my fears steer me? This was a gift I’d forgotten to appreciate lately. I loved him and sometimes there were consequences of it that were scary, but it-the emotion itself-wasn't. My bones and heart knew that there was nothing for me to fear. That didn't mean that he was the only one who knew how to give. Well, there were three other words I'd like to hear but I'd take these from him. "That's my girl."Īfter all the crap that I'd gone through today, there couldn't have been three better words to hear. It was everything I’d wanted.Įach of his thumbs curved over the shells of my ears. I don't know how to explain it-it was like Christmas morning when you were a kid. It pulsed, full of life and warmth and gummy bears and glitter. “My rib cage clenched all of the organs and muscles within it.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |