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“Eli—”
He puts his hand out. “Let me finish.”
I nod and let him continue.
“When I told you I was sorry and that I loved you, you were pretty drunk.” His lips tremble as he says his next words. “ I figured this morning I need to give you the chance to be the one to walk away from me this time.”
“You figured wrong for once, genius.” I tell him, getting up to pull him up in my arms. “I’m not going anywhere.”
“Are you sure?” he asks, pressing against me.
“I’m sure,” I say. “And I don’t think you’re broken. Not any more than I am, anyway. Maybe our jagged pieces are just meant to fit together.”
He relaxes against me and the feel of his body against mine causes my cock to want to get in on our reunion.
But for the second time in a few hours I deny my horny self in favor of getting everything sorted out with Eli so I can make sure he know it’s a commitment that I want from him. What I need from him.
What has love done to me?
Even though I know it can’t lead to anything right now, I can’t stop touching him. He feels too good against me to stop.
“Growing up I felt like I was less than nothing,” I tell him.
Eli’s face scrunches. “Jeb—”
“Shhh.” I stop his protest with a kiss. “Let me finish. No one ever seemed to see me. Not my mother, who was so high most of the time she forgot I even existed, or the teachers at school, who wrote me off as trash. Even the johns from the truck stop,who once I got them off, looked at me like I was just another mistake, and couldn’t get me out of their rigs fast enough. Except for Carl, and he hurt me so bad during the blizzard cause he knew if I’d died in the snow that night nobody would have cared.” I shrug. “He was right.”
Eli’s eyes glint with fury. I know later I’m going to have to talk him out of deleting Inyan from the map, maybe even the census bureau. I give a mental shrug—or maybe I’ll let him do his worst.
“Then I met Cora.” A smile comes to my lips at the woman who taught me how to save myself. “When she told me I could be ‘legendary’that was it. I was in. Every job I pulled. Every decision I made was all about convincing myself that Jebediah Ezekiel Jones would be remembered.”
“He is.” Eli rushes to say.
I nod. “It’s cause I’m the best.”
Eli laughs. The sound warming me from the inside.
“That’s the thing though, Iamthe best, but every time I finished a job, or heard other thieves talk about one of my epic heists, I never felt it. So I kept pulling job after job hoping that that one of them would make me really believe I’m as great as I tell people I am.”
“Eli pulls away from me, his shoulders tight and determined like he’s going off to battle. “You are legendary,” he insists with fire in his eyes. “Better than legendary.” He starts entering full on attack mode. “I’ll upload all the data. It’s never wrong. I’ll make up spreadsheets.”
“I don’t need it,” I say, but he doesn’t hear me, he is so intent on his data driven siege.
“You’re a visual learner so I’ll present you with graphs that unequivocally show how le—”
I take ahold of his shoulders and shake them gently. “Eli, I don’t need it,” I repeat.
“But you said…”
I can’t help rubbing my hands up and down his lean, muscled arms. “I don’t need it, Eli because when you look at me I feel it. I finally feel it.”
Eli looks at me with a shock in his eyes. “Me,” he says breathlessly.
“You.” I kiss his lips again, which are open in surprise.
“It took me too damn long to be able to name the feeling that hit me every time you paid me any kind of attention.” I laugh. “It didn’t matter if you were pissed off at me, or if you were sneaking looks at my ass or my abs—”
A playful grin takes over Eli’s face. “I never did that.”
