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His gaze searched mine, though for what I didn’t know, and the fear was gone as fast as it had appeared, shifting to resolve. We’d chosen this path, and there would be no changing fate now. We both knew it.
“Okay.”
The word broke my heart.
Acceptance of our fate.
Acceptance of this life.
Singular.
“I’ll ride with you.”
“Thank you.” I kissed him again, lingering in the moment. “I’ll change my shirt.”
He rolled his eyes and got in my car to wait.
Once we were on our way, he stared at me. I knew what he wanted, but I wasn’t ready to give it to him, still processing all the things weighing on my mind.
“I can do this all day.”
“If you think I don’t already know this about you, you’re wrong,” I replied without looking over.
“Vinketten.”
“Yes?” I asked, pushing this off as long as possible.
“I want to know what you’ve found out. Good or bad. Two minds coming at it is always better. These are my people. I’ll see things you won’t.”
“I’m trying to find the words, Dominic.” This felt too formal. I should have told him standing in the drive, but I’d been trying to be timely, and we didn’t have time for emotions.
“Don’t prepare like you do for clients. Tell me what you’re thinking.”
“It’s the way I am, Dom.”
He cringed, and I turned to look at him. He’d never had such a reaction to me.
“What?”
“You called me Dom.” Confusion was written all over his face.
“I didn’t realize you had such an aversion to what everyone else calls you.”
“You’re not everyone else.” He had me there.
“Do you dislike when I call you Dom?”
“You just don’t, which makes it weird.”
I turned back to the road. “I am trying to not be analytical about this, but I’m finding it hard to process without being this way.”
“Because you want to be emotional about it, and you’re not letting yourself.” He explained so easily what I hadn’t realized I’d been feeling.
“Yes.”
“It’s okay to have feelings.”
“Feelings won’t help any of this. I need a level head to deal with it.” We were the opposite there, too. I was dry and analytical while he acted with his heart and chest and gut.
