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He’s going to tell me not to be silly

He didn’t say he loved me He said he loathed me

All of this has been a trick like I thought at the beginning

But that’s just the re to invade the perfection of this moment

Unlike before, that part of me is so much easier to beat back now, to haet lost

“I love you too” Gripping onto his fir flat against hihglad you feel the same I love you so, so much”

He leans down and suddenly our lips are fusing together, a tingling explosive pleasure shivering between us, dancing around our mouths and up and down our bodies My nipples pebble and buzz, and I feel his o to war

He growls through the kiss

And I whi, to kiss le piece of me to combust, to explode from the inside until I can’t take it anymore

But he pulls back, wrapping his ar me close

“Wait” He breathes raggedly “If we keep going, I won’t be able to stop I need to say so”

Hope lights up inside ofand alive, but I warn myself to be careful

A house, love…

That’s more than I ever could’ve asked for

“What?” I whisper

“Bria, before I laid eyes on you, I truly thought there was so broken inside of et shitfaced every day of their lives Maybe it was just the way I was born I don’t know Whatever it was, I never thought just seeing soe me irrevocably”

His voice gets deeper with eruffness, love replacing his usual ferocity