“What?” I blink, looking up at him.
Dino’s eyes are dark. He slides the hand that I”m not holding against my face, and leans down ever so slightly.
If he moves forward again, he’s going to kiss me.
I want him to kiss me.
“I can think of one place that I have felt belonging.”
“Oh?” I whisper.
His lips are almost touching mine.
He leans closer again, and I have to strain to hear the words.
“I belong with you.”
19
DINO
I’ve never beenthis honest.
I’m not a fuckin’ liar, by any stretch, but right now is the first time ever that I’ve actually told the entirety of the truth that’s been sitting in my chest.
Marisol makes me want to pull my heart out, so she can hold it. I think it might be safer with her.
That’s a fuckin’ terrifying fact. But with Marisol, I want to be so much more than who I am. I want to be good. I want to be someone that she can see herself with. She’s mine, whether she knows it or not.
But if she loved me? I couldn’t hope for something as good.
I am, however, trying to get to a place where she at least tolerates me. Where she can see a future together.
Where she won’t fuckin’ leave me.
So I’m doing something new. I’m giving her a little bit of myself, which I wouldn’t normally even think about.
But for Marisol?
I want to be better than I am.
She’s so close. If I lean forward any more, I can take her lips.
The thought sends blood straight to my cock.
The rain on my skin is fucking icy cold, but I think I might be radiating it off of me in steam, because right now Marisol is making me feel like I’m on fucking fire.
I want to kiss her.
If I was just being myself, I’d fucking kiss her and never think a fucking thing about it.
But I want her to wantthis.
I’m fucking desperate for her to want me, and it makes me feel…
Scared.
She breathes, her eyes wide, her breath sweet. “Dino…”