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I lay ht as well My plate is empty "Prove it," I say

Silence falls over the rooht you were ready for what I want, I would"

He gets up and washes my plate "How do you knohat I’m ready for?" I walk up behind him and pull his shirt from where it’s tucked into his pants I slide my hands around his naked stooes stiff in ive you ten minutes to knock that shit off," he says He chuckles, and I can feel his belly ers into his waistband and his hand coo to bed?" he asks, turning his head to kiss uy was s and I’m afraid I have it in rirunt

"Use my bathroohts of ? "Okay"

I grab o into his bathrooo back into the roolasses in bed, reading a book "I didn’t know you wear glasses," I tell hiht for the first time, but I never would have known otherwise

"I don’t" He takes theaze takes a lingering path up and down oes down to ht tofor rabs ht dusting of hair that graces his body

"I like waiting for you," he tells me He lifts his head and kisses ht I can feel hi…"

"Ask Just ask" But I stiffen because I’ to askWhat would you call it?"

I lift rumbles "No, this is not sex If you think this is sex, your previous partners were really bad at it" He laughs, his chest shaking beneath me "No, this…relationship" He jostles uess so," I say quietly

"You guess?"

"I mean, yeah, I think it’s a relationship" I draw a circle on his chest "Do you want it to be a relationship?" I hold my breath

"Hell yeah, I want it to be a relationship"

"I wouldn’t mind if it was sex, too," I whisper I kiss the center of his chest, and his belly clenches under my hand

"Would you be mad if I said I’th of htly in his strong aro," he says "I don’t think you took that the way I meant it"

"How did you mean it?"

"I mean that I really, really like you and I want to see where this thing is going"

"Okay…"

"And I know that once I get to be inside you, I’o, so I want to be sure this is permanent"