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He’d been sitting on the edge of the bed for several ainst the headboard when I’d realized he was struggling, but now Ioff to his side I ?”

“I don’t want to mess this up,” he admitted

“How do you think you’re going to mess this up?” I asked

He just shook his head

“We don’t have to do anything you don’t want to,” I offered

“I want to,” he said quickly “I just don’t want to do to you what I did to the others”

“Youhe was referring to the girl who’d tried to kiss him

“That…but the escorts too,” he said softly, the sha , but the way I treated them…like they were just bodies”

My heart hurt for him, but as badly as I wanted to touch hi next to him rather than off to his side

“I know you didn’t see them that way”

When he didn’t respond, I finally took a chance and touched hih so I could turn his face to look at me “And I know you don’t see me that way either…you’re just not wired that way I really just want to be with you, Cain Even if that means I can’t touch you with my hands…I’ll find other ways to touch you…to show you how much you mean to me”

I risked taking his hand in ed

His fingers grippedand then turned to face him I slowly removed my shirt and then waited for him to do the same My socks were next Hehis eyes off mine I didn’t even scan his body like I wanted to because I didn’t want to risk losing the tremulous connection I had with him I took his hand inthe spray of the shower and he was at my back Since I couldn’t see him anymore with him behind me, I watched our reflection in the lass shower door