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“Not that you and he were together. Not about that, I swear. But because…” How do I explain this? I have no idea where these feelings are coming from.
“Because?” he prompts.
“Well, I heard you say you needed him, and I guess I…” I take another breath. “I want to be what you need too.”
“Keres.” My name leaves his mouth on a sigh, and he rolls me onto my back. “You are what I need, sweetheart. Both of you.”
Tears leak from the corners of my eyes. “I know that. I do.” I scrub at my eyes with my knuckles, but he stops me by taking hold of both my hands in one of his. “I don’t know why I’m feeling all these things, Ace. I’ve never been this person before, and I don’t know how to stop.”
“Because you’ve never let anyone care for you or love you before, Keres. You’ve never allowed yourself to feel any of this, and now that you are, it’s normal to be a little overwhelmed by it all. But you have to feel it all and you have to talk to us about it, okay?”
I sniff. “Okay.”
“And I gotta admit, you being jealous of me fucking Romeo instead of you is kind of hot.”
I stifle a laugh. “I wasn’t jealous of that. I just want to be whatever you need me to be.”
“You are. But I’m not gonna fuck you while you’re sleeping, sweetheart. Not unless we’ve discussed it first. I know Romeo is okay with it because we established that dynamic a long time ago.”
“I’d be okay with it too.”
His dark eyes search my face. “After everything that’s happened to you, you think you’d be okay waking up with someone inside you? It could be a huge fucking trigger.”
“Not someone, Ace. You.”
A soft smile spreads across his handsome face. “We’ll see, Trouble.”
I lift my chin. “I’m giving you my blanket consent to fuck me while I’m asleep whenever you want.”
Chuckling, he lies back down and pulls me against him. “You really take life by the balls, sweetheart.”
I snuggle against his chest, feeling so much better for having told him what I was thinking. “No point in living it half-assed, is there?”
“No.” His breath tickles my skin. “It’s one of the many reasons I love you.”
“I love you too.”
He kisses my forehead. “I know. Now get some sleep.”
Chapter
Fifty-Five
ACE
Five months later
I drain the milk from my cereal bowl and place it back on the countertop as I watch her fidget. She twists the fabric of her dress over her hips as though it isn’t sitting correctly even though the simple charcoal-gray fitted dress she chose especially for today fits her like a glove. She’s fucking stunning.
But her nerves are starting to make me antsy, and we still have two hours before we need to leave for the opening.
I step up behind her. “You look beautiful. Stop fidgeting.”
“I want to look professional, not beautiful,” she snaps.
Fortunately for her, I know exactly what she needs to get out of her head for a while. I spin her around to face me. Fisting one hand in the hair at the nape of her neck, I slide down the long zipper at the back of her dress with the other.
“What are you doing?” she asks before she hisses out a breath.
