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We stayed there just like that, panting and gasping as he softened inside me.
“I don’t know how to give you up,” he said finally, his fingers digging into my hair while he pressed his forehead to mine.
I stared at his face, his eyes closed and brow furrowed.
“Don’t,” I breathed, shutting my eyes too, taking it all in.
His fingers squeezed, clutching my hair a little in his desperate attempt to hold on to this moment.
“You caught my attention from day one,” he whispered.
The words surprised me, but I didn’t move and I didn’t speak, hoping that he’d go on.
“Then you chewed me out and called me an asshole, and I was fucking hooked.”
I grinned, feeling moisture gather in my eyes as his hand gripped even tighter in my hair.
“Then you opened your Goddamn mouth and we talked about everything books and writing and…then you came to my house and that look in your eyes when you saw all that history… I’ve never… I’ve never met anyone who I harmonized with like this. Someone who challenges me and who will listen with a critical but supportive ear.”
I looked at him, but his expression read pain and frustration.
“Owen…” his name slipped from between my lips and his eyes finally opened, connecting to mine.
His hand dropped from my hair and moved to my cheek.
“This happened too fast, Mia. A few weeks isn’t worth risking an entire career for.”
All the air in my lungs whooshed out as agony raced through me.
“But this,” he added, sparking a flame of hope. “This feeling in my chest is worth it. It’s worth…everything.”
I smashed my mouth to his, my chest feeling so full it could burst.
“I don’t care how fast it was,” I told him. “I don’t care about anything else. I care about this. About you and me. You make my heart swell and my breath stutter. You’re all the things I never knew I wanted, and everything that I knew I needed. I’m not here to take what you give me. I’m here to give you everything I am, in hopes that you’ll do the same back.”
His jaw clenched again, eyebrows scowling for a moment.
“It’s not just me,” he said finally. “I come with two boys and a shitton of drama in the form of an ex-wife.”
I wanted to yell from the rooftop that I didn’t care. I would take him in any way he’d give himself to me.
“Give me time.” He sighed. “I have shit to sort out in my life here. That’ll give us more time to get to know each other and let this all settle in.”
“And school?” I asked.
“Nothing needs to change. You’re my TA still, and I need your help. Midterms are coming up and we’re going to make the tests for the classes together.”
I nodded.
“But I want you in my home. In my bed,” he said, his voice growing thicker.
“I’ll need to tell my roommate something.”
“Tell her the truth. You’re dating someone.”
I grinned at the idea of the two of us dating.
“You don’t know Clea. The moment she finds out I’m going on dates at all, she’s going to demand to know who the guy is.”
