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Daire wasn’t exactly the pour-your-heart-out, monogamous kind, and getting him here—naked beside me—hadn’t been easy. So the idea of admitting I wanted not only to do this again, but wanted him to only be with me, had me fumbling.
“Gavin? Did I hurt you last night?”
“What? No.” Of course that was where his mind went. Ever the protector. It was just one more reason for my heart to do that little skip it did whenever I thought about him. “You didn’t hurt me. Last night was… It was perfect.”
The concern from seconds ago slipped away behind a wall I was all too familiar with. The idea that he was the reason for my happiness was something he wasn’t comfortable with at all, and that was both heartbreaking and incredibly frustrating.
Why couldn’t he see what an amazing human being he was?
“You don’t think it was?” I asked, not sure I was ready for the answer. Because if he pulled back, if he shut me out while I was lying here naked beside him, I wasn’t sure I would ever recover.
But when he rolled to his back and said, “I didn’t say that,” my chest tightened.
I scooted in closer to him, keeping my eyes on him as he stared up at the ceiling. I didn’t want to spook him. I just wanted to get closer, and that was going to take care and patience. I needed to tread lightly here.
“Soooyou might possibly want to do this again?”
Daire’s lips twitched. “Yeah, I think I might want that.”
“With me?”
“You see anyone else in this bed?”
I grabbed hold of the covers and lifted them up, looking down at his phenomenal body. “Nope. No one else.”
Daire snorted and tugged me into his side, and I laid my hand over his steadily thumping heart.
“There better not be. I’m the only one allowed this close to your naked body.”
Heat swirled in my stomach at his claim. While he might not freely admit to having softer, gentler feelings, this showed me he cared.
How much? Well, that was another question. One I needed to ask. I needed to know where he stood with all of this.
Was this a casual thing? Or was it more?
“D?”
“Hmm?”
“Whatwaslast night?”
His chest rose beneath my hand on a deep inhale. “Do we have to analyze it?”
Not exactly the answer I wanted. “I don’t want to analyze it. I just want to know what it meant to you. Was it just last night? Or do you want more?”
I closed my eyes and held my breath, my heart pounding a mile a minute as I waited for his answer.
“I’m no good at this stuff.” Daire’s voice was reflective as I lay there willing him to say more and then he added, “But I don’t want this to be it.”
I let out a breath, squeezing my eyes shut as I gave a mental fist bump to the air.
Holy shit.I’d just gotten Daire—Daire—to admit he wanted more than a quick roll in the sheets with me. This was huge. It was…monumental. And I needed to calm down or he was going to freak out.
Steadying myself, I opened my eyes and, with much more calm than I was actually feeling, smiled. “You don’t?”
“No. Why, do you?”
“No.” I quickly shook my head. “No. Iwantto do this again. Like, many times, again. I just want to know, I mean, if we do this, I just want it to be us.”
