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“Oh.” I frowned.
“That’s not all.”
“It’s not?” I whispered, feeling his hand sliding around to my back, aligning his front against my front.
“My dad’s been a drunk all my life, so I have nothing to do with him. My mom never left the trailer park. We had a house at one point, but for the most part, we were in the trailer park. We can get into that later, but there are good trailer parks and some that aren’t. She came from the stereotyped kind. If that doesn’t make sense to you, that’s a good thing, but if you meet her one day, you’ll understand. I gave up on her a while ago.”
“Oh.” I reached up to comfort him, but when my hand found his arm, a different zing went through me. “Oh.”
“I got two more siblings. One is the reason I thought you were trying to con me. The only contact I have with her is when I block her from hurting more people. She’s not good news, and I’m trying to turn over a new leaf, keeping communication with her to the bare minimum and as nice as I possibly can, while not letting her fuck with the way I view people. I almost missed out on you, because darling—”
Darling?
I liked that. No. I loved that.
His head inclined toward me. “You know how you sometimes have milestones that change your life?”
I nodded.
“If I’d missed out on a chance with you, that would’ve been a milestone in regret.”
Oh, whoa. A milestone in regret?
“I got a half-brother who grew up in the next town over with his mom, which probably saved him, and I’ve got no intention of fucking that up in some way, so I steer clear.” He stopped, holding my gaze for a beat. “So now you know something about me. I don’t talk about my family. Football saved me, plain and simple. Also, you were crying before. Why were you crying?”
I frowned, remembering that too. “Where did you come from?”
“We like eating here. We get escorted in from the back and slip into a booth. Most people have no clue we’re here. Olvander needed to talk about his woman, and honestly, I could use some drinks trying to figure out what to do about you.”
“About me?” Also, holy crap. He needed to be escorted in the back? He was that kind of athlete. Which I knew, but seeing it firsthand? Wow.
“Because I messed up. Bad. I’m sorry.”
His hand slid from my back to my front, and he toyed with the bottom of my shirt. His knuckle grazed against my skin, teasing me. Little wisps of lust grew, dancing inside me.
“That’s okay.” I wanted his whole hand against my skin. Under my shirt. “We all mess up now and then.”
He chuckled. The sound washed over me.
I loved the sound of that.
“I can more easily count the times I’ve not screwed up. That’s also the kind of guy I am, so you know.”
“Why are you telling me all of this?” I was also touching him. My hand smoothed down his arm to his wrist.
“Because I don’t want to fuck up with you. I just dumped out most of my skeletons, and now that you know all that, you can decide.”
“Decide what?” I tilted my head up and was caught again by his eyes.
They were so close.
His whole face was so close.
His lips… If I stood on my tiptoes, mine would brush against his.
It’d be so easy.
“I want to know you. Do you want to know me?”
