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I hold her eyes and wait.
Until it happens.
She closes hers, drops her forehead to my chest, and exhales. Her words elate me and confuse me. “I don’t know how to resist you, Eli.” In a choked whisper, she adds, “And I really need to resist you.”
I lean away and fight to find her eyes. “Baby?”
Her head whips up. “That’s what you call me when you’re inside me. I don’t want that.” She turns, as if something requires her immediate attention and she doesn’t know what. “I mean—”
I grab her, placing both my hands on her shoulders. “You mean what, Bright? You don’t want me to call you baby or you don’t want me to be inside you?”
She bites her bottom lip. Fuck me. She’s never this unsure, this tentative.
When her eyes flick up to mine, I see the vulnerability. I also see her resolve, and the two together are my undoing.
I lift her and wrap her legs around my waist and move to her sofa where I sit.
“Darlin’, you’ve said an awful lot without saying anything at all.”
Her sigh melts her further into my body. “I’m like coming home?”
“Every time I’m around you, my soul settles deeper.”
“You called me a cold bitch yesterday.”
I tilt her head so I can see her eyes. “I said you were pretending to be a cold bitch.”
* * *
Brighton
“You said...”I swallow past the sand in my throat. “You said I wasn’t worth the trouble.” My voice is tentative, and I begin to squirm, not okay with being on his lap and wrapped around him.
Wrapped up in him.
It’s too great a risk.
I fight to remove myself from the stupid situation I’ve gotten myself into, yet again, when his arms lock like a vise around me.
“Baby, I said you were home.”
“Don’t call me baby.”
“Why?” I feel the vibration of his anger as his word lashes out at me.
Without thinking, I say what I know I’ll come to regret, “Because I’m not just another one of your fucks.”
His inhale pulls me tighter to him, but his silence is my undoing. It’s pregnant with unsaid things, and you can’t unsay shit. We need to cut our losses before we voice things we can’t take back.
When I meet his eyes, they’re soft and serious, but the curve of his mouth belies his satisfaction.
“You could never be those women.”
Well, fuck him.
I flail. And I fight.
I’m freaking strong too.
