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A fullheavy in the sky The stars twinkled on And I’d just upended ain "You’re now officiallyDoes that bother you?"

With a sigh, David flicked on the indicator and pulled over in front of a neat row of suburban houses He picked up one of ently between both of his "If I wanted to quit the band would that bother you?"

"Of course not That’s your decision"

"If I wanted to give all the ed "You uess you’d have to co you now, the apartment we’d have on my salary alone would be small Miniscule Just so you know"

"But you’d still take me in?"

"Without question" I covered one his hands with th just then "Thank you for being there tonight"

Little creases lined his perfect dark blue eyes "I didn’t even say anything"

"You didn’t have to"

"You called me your husband"

I nodded, my heart stuck in my throat

"I didn’t kiss you at the studio today because it felt like there was still too ht But I want to kiss you now"

"Please," I said

He leaned into me and I met him halfway His mouth covered mine, lips warm and firm and familiar The only ones I wanted or needed His hands cuppedme to him The kiss was so sweet and perfect It was a promise, one that wouldn’t be broken this ti all our lives That was ue against his The taste of him was as necessary to me as air The feel of his hands onto coht speed The groan that came out of him Holy hell I wanted to hear that noise for the rest ofto pull him closer We had some serious time to make up for

"We have to stop," he whispered

"We do?" I asked, in between panting breaths

"Sadly" He chuckled, nudged the tip of irl in the world Soon Did you really have to throw the fucking in there?"

"I really did"

"Your parents looked about ready to have kittens"

"I’ers over the spiky short dark hair on the side of his head, feeling the bristles

"I can deal"

"You shouldn’t have to You won’t have to I’ ue played overet closer Nobody kissed like David His hands slipped beneathto the curves of s were so da of which, I could feel David’s erection, pressing into my hip We kept our lips locked until a car full of kids went by, horn blaring Apparently our makeout session was soed-up s Classy

"Soon," he proood to get you alone That was intense But I’ood"

"Thank you You think we’ll understand e have kids, like my mom said?"

He looked up at me, his beautiful face and serious eyes so wonderfully familiar I could cry

"We’ve never talked about kids," he said "Do you want them?"

"One day Do you?"

"One day, yeah After we’ve had a few years’ worth of alone ti to show me this condo of yours?"

"Of ours Absolutely"

"I think you’re going to need to take your hands out ofus there"