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Andino let out a breath. “Exactly like that, yeah.”

“So, two months before me.”

“Two, yep. And my last relationship? Didn’t exist.”

Haven cocked a brow. “What does that mean?”

“If you consider the girlfriend I had in high school for a total of three whole weeks—before I decided teenage girl drama wasn’t for me—to be a relationship, then that’s your opinion. I don’t, though.”

“That was your last relationship? And I mean, a real relationship, Andino.”

His broad shoulders lifted. “That was it.”

“So, casual sex is—”

“My thing when I feel the need. I don’t have time for more.”

Haven openly frowned. “I don’t want casual sex, Andino.”

“I know you don’t.”

“Then, why—”

“I haven’t been out with anyone. I don’t have girls on the side. I’m not fucking somebody else when I’m not around for you to see me. I’m sorry that I have to come and go because my life is a mess, and I’m trying to get it figured out. But here I am. I’m here—right now, Haven. Here with you because I want to be, and because I like you. You don’t want causal sex, then fine, we won’t do casual.”

“I’m not asking for the whole titles and that bit, either.”

Andino laughed. “I get it—you don’t want me sticking my dick into somebody else while I’m fucking you. It’s fine, girl. I get it.”

He was crass.

Brash.

Kind of fucking terrible.

She liked it, though.

“What about the rest?” she asked quietly.

“What else is there?”

“Everything. You, mostly. There’s a lot I don’t know about you, and I feel like you’re keeping things from me.”

Andino cocked his head to the side, and let out another one of those hard breaths. “Can’t this be enough for right now—what we’re doing together? Let it be enough, okay.”

“But—”

“Please, let it be enough.”

A part of her wanted to keep pushing. At least, until she got what she wanted, and he gave her something more than nothing in this regard. But he had given her more in a way. He’d given the honest conversation she asked for, and answered some of her questions. It was better than absolutely nothing.

The part of her that didn’t want to say a thing, and just keep enjoying this man while she had him decided to keep quiet.

And she didn’t mind.

“Now,” Andino murmured, his tone dipping lower and his lips spreading with that sexy, signature smile of his, “dance for me, Haven.”

“You’re still on that, huh?”