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“I told you I love you and your only reaction was to tell me that I couldn’t possibly love you, and then you brought me snacks,” she said.
“Yes?” I said.
“Can you do me just one tiny favor?” she asked.
“Of course,” I said.
Lark pushed the plate aside and crawled over to me, straddling my lap and looking down at me.
“What’s the favor?” I asked, almost completely breathless.
“Kiss me,” she said, running her fingers through my curls. “Kiss me and tell me what you feel.”
That was no hardship.
I grabbed her ass and pulled her closer and tilted my head up as her mouth met mine, fiery and forceful. This kiss was making a point and I followed her lead, moaning as she seduced me with lips and tongue and her fingers in my hair and on the back of my neck.
She was so sexy and wonderful and sweet and delicious, and I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to kiss anyone else but her.
Whoa. Hold on.
What wasthat?
Lark felt me freeze and pulled back.
“Everything okay?” she asked, and I couldn’t look away from her face. Her beautiful, lovely face.
I opened my mouth and then shut it and shook my head.
“Syd?” she asked.
“Kiss me again,” I said. “I need to check something.”
She did so immediately and all of the things I’d been thinking rushed to my mind again and my entire body was suffused by a warm certainty that wrapped around me.
“I love you,” I tried to say, but her tongue was still in my mouth, so it just came out as gibberish.
She pulled back again. “What?”
“I love you?” I said, testing the words again.
Lark’s eyes narrowed. “Is that a question or a statement?”
I tried again. “I love you.” And again. “I love you.” I tried emphasizing a different word each time. “Ilove you. Iloveyou. I loveyou.”
“Syd? Are you broken?” she asked, brushing my hair back and looking a little worried.
“No,” I said. “I’m not broken.”
And I wasn’t. I’d always thought love would be awful. It would mean giving up myself to someone else. It would mean that I’d have to change my entire life and become a different person. That I would be miserable. Nothing about this was miserable. This woman in my arms was everything.
She did deserve better than me, that was for damn sure, but I was also too selfish to give her up. Guess I was enough of an asshole for that.
“I love you,” I said again, purely for the joy of saying it, and then I started laughing and couldn’t stop.
“What’s so funny?”
Lark was probably questioning her love for me right now, but I didn’t care.
