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There it is

I tear my eyes fro the heavy dru of my heart take over my senses for a beat I’m relieved, terrifiedbut ht if I said it out loud, and ht, can’t let it go in a feeeks if one of us says love

"Do you think you could ever," he starts after a few beats of silence, his lips pulled up to one side in a smile, "like me?"

My chest squeezes at the earnest vulnerability in his expression I nod, shat feels like a bowling ball in , "I’m already in like with you"

His eyes fla, ju We’ll do it all over again We can find a new flat with h an unexpected sob "I like this flat I likeI don’t need anything new"

He tilts his head and s shaer through a belt loop on his pants and tug "Coth of his body so closely to mine I need to tilt my chin to look up at him

"Done talking, then?" he asks, hands slipping aroundnow?" His eyes e to look both amused and ravenous

I slip a hand between us and pal to feel hirunts when I press into hi closed His hands slide upmy neck

The sweep of his thuer: a warh s groeak I open my mouth, lick the pad of his thumb until he slides it inside and, with dark eyes, watches

He steersme backward out of the kitchen, but stops after only a few steps, cupping ain?"

I search his eyes for hisbefore I understand "That I like you?"