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I got it a few ht Cooper saw it clear as day

When I went to Cooper’s apartment after my tattoo appoint "Why weren’t you answering your phone? I had no idea where you were"

Honestly, I didn’t think about any of that until I saw the oing on and on so instead of trying to talk over hiht I would just show him what I had been up to My jeans were already unbuttoned because I didn’t want theainst my raw skin I pushed my pants down a little further than as probably necessary to show him the tattoo, but I wanted his attention Cooper stopped mid-sentence and watched me closely I lifted my shirt up to just under my bra and watched as his eyes landed onwashed over Cooper as he dropped to his knees in front of me He kissed just abovefrom the butterflies that had taken up insideand make it all better Only that would never happen

Later that night a night for air, sas pouring downCooper tried to cal to talk to et me to drink some water, and then to call Hailey or MacKenzie When none of that worked he tried to lift me from the bed but I flinched away

Cooper held up his hands and backed up a few steps "Come into the bathrooet up I needed to wake up frohtmare I just couldn’t pull ave in and went into the bathroo behind me When ere both inside he shut and locked the door I started to panic, feeling suffocated all over again

"Strip" Cooper dee to it

I didn’t listen at first; I just stood there and gawked at hicareful not to touch me, and turned the shower on When he was satisfied with the teain "I’ain Strip or I’ll do it for you"

I couldn’t believe the words that were coht he wasn’t going to letI was fuet hts tied tothem down

That’s when Cooper leveledand I couldn’t have his hands onthe words in lance at hiheavy Most of the time he was cool, calm and level headed and it took a lot to piss hi his shit, I stripped out of my clothes quickly

When I was completely nad Cooper pulled the shower curtain open and nodded his head towards the water Not wanting to piss hi the water wash over ainst the shoall and just let it all out All the guilt I held, all the sha dirty

Seconds, minutes, hours seeainst the wall but I had wrapped myself around Cooper who had slipped in the shoithhis hands up and downsexual in any ith the way that he heldmy backbone when all I wanted to do was crumble He wouldn’t let me crumble alone

When the water turned cold we dried off and both went back into Cooper’s rooed on my hand and pulled me to his bed I sat there as he walked over to his dresser and pulled out an old baseball t-shirt of his and two pairs of boxers He dropped his towel in front of me and I had to turn my head I wanted him so badly I wanted him to make ht I was dirty, tainted When he finished pulling on his boxers he dropped to his knees in front of et dressed in his clothes We both cliized for the hundredth ti he had no control over He had nothing to do with that night

I faced the bathroo in the dark anyht with it, fear and anxiety, confusion, and most of all, helplessness I was at my hts, Cooper wrapped his body around mine and then some time later the darkness pulled me under It was in his arms, the ones that wouldn’t let me fall alone, that I slept safe and sound for the rest of the night

As I turn around to face Cooper he reaches behind hi to feel hi for the button of his jeans As I get the button undone, he does nothing to stop erous and I loseto feel what he’s thinking

I tug his jeans down over his hps and watch them fall to the floor Cooper wraps his arms around my shoulders and I hold him around his stomach My head rests on his chest and I listen to his erratic heartbeat Cooper inhales and the next thing I knoe fall to the bed and I’m pinned under him

He kisses ain His kisses are slow, rind intoquickly

Then Cooper stops suddenly and looks into one too far, only he hasn’t even started to scratch my itch

Cooper starts to roll off"Please, forto, he’s not ready Or he doesn’t think I am I know this deep down inside and I hate it Our relationship tothe shots, keeping the ga me when I’m out