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Share Us
His frown deepens and he shakes his head. “You don’t share custody?”
I give a little shake of my head. “Mel’s not ready.”
“And you?” he says knowingly, eyes narrowed. I can see his wheels spinning.
My chest rises with my deep inhale before collapsing. “I don’t know. I’m…scared.”
Sympathy shines through his eyes.
“A lot of things scare me, it would seem,” I say, tugging on his hair. “I don’t know how to feel like I’m worthy of this. Of something good. I don’t know how not to feel like I’ll just let you down.”
He nods.
“It never had anything to do with you—” I slam my mouth shut, and shake my head. “No, that’s a lie. Your age was and is still a sensitive subject for me.”
Skyler glances down, brow furrowed. He chews his lip, clearly deep in thought about something.
“I’m sor—”
“It makes you feel dirty?”
My mouth opens, closes, then, “No. No, that’s the problem. Itneverfelt dirty and wrong.”
He peeks up at me through his lashes, his expression wary and something else—something I can’t pinpoint. But I don’t think he’s mad. Curious, maybe.
I shrug a shoulder. “If it did, I never would have touched you. I would’ve stopped you that morning in the cave. I would’ve pushed you away, and…kept my distance. Never let you get close.”
Scoffing, I glance away, staring blankly at the snow falling outside. “Hell, I would’ve kept my distance since that first moment on the beach, the second you looked up at me with those big brown eyes and I just….” I purse my lips, shaking my head.
“You…you felt it even then?”
Shifting my focus to his once more, I nod. “I didn’t know what it was. But you…you captivated me, Sky. It’s like my world stopped when you turned around, and looked at me for the first time. It stopped, and then it started again, and life just never looked or felt the same since.”
His eyes redden.
I smile sadly. “I told you. I was an idiot.”
He chuckles wetly, shaking his head. “Don’t say that again or I’ll spank you until you can’t walk.”
I grin, feeling lighter than ever. “Oh yeah? I’d like to see you try, sweetheart.”
Smirking, he leans forward, batting those pretty lashes at me.
Groaning, I clutch his cheeks, pulling his mouth to mine in a searing kiss.
“You never told me,” he whispers after our lips tire, the kiss slowing. “What Hudson and Mel were right about.”
“Oh. Yeah. Just what I was saying before, about how I’ve basically been…depriving myself of happiness, as a way to punish myself.”
He nods.
Blowing out a breath, I say, “But…I’m working on that. Okay?”
He chews the corner of his lip, nodding. “Okay.”
“Mel…” I wince. “She doesn’t know I’m bi.”
His eyes widen.
