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I only hoped my relationship with my parents would mend so easily. I had a feeling that was wishful thinking, but I didn’t need a perfect relationship with my parents. I didn’t need to make them happy in order to be happy. For so long, they had made me feel that my choices were wrong. But they weren’t, and I wasn’t going to question them anymore.
I was going to start living by my gut. Start doing things to experience pleasure. I’d start with making sure the man who brought me the most pleasure stayed in my life.
“I want you, Max. I love the way you look at me. I love the way you know how to calm me down. I love the way I feel when I’m with you. So what I’m saying is…I love you, too.”
He answered my confession with another kiss. Even with only our lips touching, it was a full-body kiss that touched every part of me. I would never get used to this. I would never get tired of feeling this way—loved, appreciated, craved.
He pulled away again and mumbled against my cheek, “You’re really not going to be a lawyer?”
I shook my head. “I have no idea what I’m going to be when I grow up.”
I had tons of time to figure out what I wanted to do, but first, I needed to figure out who I was. The man with his arms wrapped around me was exactly the person to help me figure that out.
“You have no idea how happy I am that I don’t have to go to anymore stuffy lawyer parties.”
I laughed. “You’re welcome for that, but just as long as you know…we will be going to as many wrap parties as we can. Being the son of Hirsh Levin should still come with a few perks.” I wiggled my eyebrows. “Like free membership to White Lace online.”
He laughed. I had missed that laugh. I had missed him so much over the last couple of weeks.
“I’ll do you one even better.” He leaned in and whispered in my ear, “You finish the two kilometers, maybe we can watch more live porn.”
My heart thumped in my chest. The idea of watching others have sex kicked up my desire. My body no longer felt like it was splitting in two. I wanted to take our party over to the bench on the other side of the track and smash my mouth down on his. But was his proposition enough to get me running again? He didn’t give me the chance to think it over.
I yelped when his hand smacked my ass, which only kicked up my libido even more. With a wink, he turned and jogged away.
The farther he got, the more my anxiety took over. I was going to have to get used to not having a plan. I didn’t have a plan. He didn’t have a plan. One of us…
“Wait!” He didn’t stop. He simply faced me and continued to run on the spot. “Are you finally going to tell me what you’re going to do with your life?”
He jogged back, his knees forming a ninety-degree angle with every step. “Today we don’t have any plans.” He leaned in and placed a quick peck on my lips. “Maybe not even tomorrow.”
With renewed strength, I took another first step toward my new life.
A life with Max.
A life without a plan in sight.
Epilogue
Max
“Honey, I’m home.”
With the widest smile I’d ever flashed, I walked through the front door of Everly’s house—our house.
I’d moved in a few weeks ago, after Sadie and Grace had moved out. They’d known it was only a matter of time before we took things to the next level. They’d done me a solid and took the initiative.
When I stepped into the doorway of the living room, I found Everly on the couch. She was in the exact same spot as she was when I’d left last night.
She was hunched over a stack of course catalogs, biting the top of her pen. Her hair was pulled up and she had a pencil sticking out of the round bun and a highlighter behind her ear. When she looked up, red and puffy eyes stared at me. Two empty bottles of Mountain Dew sat on the coffee table beside an empty package of Twizzlers. She’d been up all night…again.
“Did you get any sleep?” I crossed my arms over my chest.
“You know I can’t sleep when you’re not here.” She pouted. “I don’t like being alone.”
It killed me every time she said that. But my absence from our bed wasn’t going to stop anytime in the near future.
“How was work?” She curled up at the end of the couch, pushing away her books, making room for me.
