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“How did you keep your virginity for that long?” Tiero asks in disbelief. “You’re stunning… you would have had men fawning all over you.”
I like that he thinks that.
“I’ve always been picky, and Donald was the first guy who stirred something inside me. He was handsome, highly intelligent, and had an air of confidence about him I found attractive. I was eighteen when I met him. He was two years older than me and studying at Dublin University. We talked endlessly before anything ever happened. Rhia had been sexually active for years by that stage and was at me the whole time to stop procrastinating and get on with it. With her in my ear, I reached a point where I just wanted it over and done with.”
Not much has changed, has it? Rhia is still on my back to have more fun between the sheets. Well, I’m catching up now in spectacular fashion.
Tiero frowns, clearly not pleased with my explanations. “What happened with this Donald guy?”
“Despite our average sex life, we were quite close, but all that changed when my parents died in that car crash about a year and a half into our relationship. He tried to be there for me, but I wasn’t in a space to accept his help. I became a bit of a hermit, and our relationship suffered. When he finished uni, he went to America to work for a company his family was associated with. I was furious with him, but in hindsight, it was for the best. Our relationship was on the way out anyway.”
“I know how hard it is to lose your parents. I’m sorry you had to suffer through this.” He holds me tighter, memories of losing loved ones haunting us both.
“What about boyfriend number two?” Tiero asks. “Tell me about him.”
“Well, I met Marco a year after Donald and I broke up. He was a great distraction from the pain I was still going through from having lost my parents. Marco was adventurous and fun. He made me smile again. He worked for his family’s business. Two years after we started dating, they opened a new subsidiary in London and appointed Marco to run it. He wanted me to move with him, but I wanted to stay in Dublin, and that was that.”
I leave out the part where he cheated on me and how I found out. I couldn’t be with him after that, no matter how much he tried to convince me to take him back.
“And was he able to please you?”
I laugh. “Is sex the only thing on your mind, Signor De Marco?”
“Can you blame me? Just look at yourself in this bikini.”
I kiss him then, erasing the memories of my failed relationships, making sure Tiero is the one who’s at the forefront of my mind.
But he pulls back, staring at me. “Well, did he? Please you, I mean?”
“Yeah, we had a good sex life.” I leave it at that. Tiero really doesn’t need to know more.
From the looks of it, he didn’t like my answer. So, I tell him the truth. “You, Signor De Marco, are topping everything and everyone. You please me like no man ever has.”
The truth of what I just said hits me.
How will anyone ever compare to him?
Have I set myself up for a lifetime of disappointment?
No!
I can’t think like that. Tiero just set the bar high, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t others who can reach it.
Clearly pleased with my words this time, Tiero descends on my lips.
God, I love making out with this man.
His kisses are all-consuming. I forget the world around me. They heat my blood and turn my insides into molten lava.
After a while, Tiero lets go of me and swings his legs over the side of the bed.
“I’m going for a swim. You want to come?”
“Yes, I most certainly do,” I reply sheepishly.
He rolls his eyes at me, but can’t hide his grin. “Right, let me try again.”
He pauses for a second, thinking while I look at him expectantly. “I’m going for a swim. Do you want to come with me?” But before I can answer with an equally big grin on my face, he holds up his hand to stop me. “No, no, no… spiacente. That wasn’t much better.”
