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She hesitates, dropping her head onto my chest. “I don’t know how.”
“Yes you do,” I encourage. “Tell me you want me forever, and I’ll tell you yes. Go on, Cora. Take what you want. Don’t let doubt stop you from what we both want. Ask to be mine, and I’ll be yours.”
With a rushed breath of air, her hesitance is gone. “Tell me you love me and I’ll tell you I want this. I can’t say the words unless you promise. I can’t always be the vulnerable one, Nova. I won’t survive it.”
There’s my girl, asking me for what she needs.
“You want me to be vulnerable for you, baby?”
Her head shakes with a nod, and I lift her chin. Her watery eyes meet mine, and I smile. “I’ve loved you endlessly, even if I haven’t understood it. I’ve wanted to be at your side and on your mind for years upon years, Cora. I’m sorry that it took me so long to figure that out.”
She sniffles, and two fat tears roll down her flushed cheeks. “Don’t leave me.”
My chest swells with bliss at her plea. “I won’t. You’ll have to pry my cold dead hands off of you to get rid of me.”
She swallows thickly. “I don’t want to get rid of you.”
“Good, because you’re stuck with me now.” I plant a firm kiss on each of her damp cheeks. “I won’t promise that I won’t fuck up, because I probably will do something stupid at some point. But I promise that I’ll always fight for us, even if I’ve pissed you off and you don’t want to see my face. I’ll always make it up to you, you're my girl.”
She lets a relieved breath out. “Okay.”
And in this moment, everything changes. A wide smile tugs at my lips. The world isn’t ready for Nova Elsher to be in a committed relationship, but I’ll show them just how serious I am.
They won’t even know what hit them.
Epilogue
Cora
A Week Later
Vegas isn’t my typical scene. The nightlife is chaotic and the stakes are high. I can handle that sometimes, my stepfather is a rockstar after all. But I much prefer a lowkey night in with some good food and a good fuck. Hopefully by the end of the night, I’ll at least have the latter.
After all,Novais with me.
And even though we’ve decided to keep our relationship quiet for a little bit longer, there’s no reason we can’t be seen out in public together… given oursituation. We’ll just need to resist the urge to suck each other’s faces.
Thankfully, we manage it. Probably because our night out goes by quickly. But before we end it entirely, Nova has a gift for me. A little piece of special candy. As she presents it to me, I pop it into my mouth without prompting. I recognize the shape—a blue butterfly the size of my thumb. It's the only drug I occasionally partake in.
She chuckles. “Eager, are we?”
I ignore her in favor of chewing my treat.
It's a hybrid of microdosed MDMA and THC, chemically balanced in a way that I don’t fully understand, but I do trust. I’ve taken it before with Nova and well, alonewithNova. Some people like drunk sex, some people like to get a little high instead.
The gummy tastes like blue raspberry on my tongue. My favorite flavor. I decide it's the best part of the evening, even though our time has been nice. Good music, nice food, and lots of laughs with Nova. It’s the best part, because it's thrilling. I know that there’s more to come along with it. Our time out is over, but the night has hardly finished.
Twenty minutes later, we’re back outside of our hotel room. Before I can step inside, Nova covers my eyes with her hands from behind.
I still, feeling her lips brush against the shell of my ear. “I’m going to lead you to the bathroom, and you’re going to get ready for me. I want you to do whatever you need to do to prepare yourself for what I’m about to do to you. You will take no less than five minutes, and you’ll come out stripped for me when you’re done. Nod once for yes.”
I nod without hesitation, letting her guide me inside. Once alone inside the bathroom, she leaves me with a fierce kiss.
As soon as the door latches behind her, I drop every piece of clothing from my body to the floor. My skin is already hot, the high beginning to set in. I’ll be buzzing any minute now,floating, until the high cools off into the relaxing effects of the THC.
I rest my back against the cool tiled wall, staring at my phone, waiting for five minutes to pass. Time moves slowly, but it eventually passes. I can’t leave the space fast enough, swinging the door so hard that it smacks against the stopper.
I hear a soft chuckle from Nova as I rush into the main suite. Sucking in a gasp, I’m struck silent by what I find. The room is bathed in a dark but golden hue, lit up by portable lights. She’s changed the bedding, wrapping the mattress in silky gold sheets. Once again, she’s created an entire ambiance just to fuck me.Shit, I love it so much.
