Page 64 of Storm Bound
“It was sexy,” I corrected.
He smiled like an innocent little boy, and I shook my head with a smile. He was so perfect. In every way imaginable. And I wanted him to be mine in every way.
So naturally, the next sentence just slipped out of my mouth.
“Should we move in?” I asked.
“Move in?”
“Yeah. As in, move in together,” I said.
It had been something that had crossed my mind the last few days, but I hadn’t dared mull it over too much. But maybe it was time.
“I-I don’t know,” he replied.
Or maybe not.
“Forget I said anything,” I said and tried to walk faster, but Adam put his hand on my arm and pulled me back to him.
“I-I’m sorry. I just… you took me by surprise,” he said.
“It’s fine. Don’t worry about it. It was a stupid thing to say.”
“It wasn’t.”
“Yes, it was. I’m only here for another five months, anyway. It’s stupid,” I said.
The more he pushed the issue, the more annoyed I got with myself. And with him. It wasn’t like I slept in his house every night. Or that we spent most of our days together. Nothing had to change. It just made logistical sense.
“O-oh, so… you’re just going to leave after five months, anyway?” he mumbled.
I stopped and looked up to the sky. But if divine intervention were a thing, I didn’t think it was happening to me right this moment.
“I don’t know, Adam. I don’t know what our life is going to be like. What I do know is I have a life and a job back in Detroit waiting for me, and if I’m going to give it up, I need to know whatthisis. I know we might be moving too fast, but I didn’t think it was a big deal. It obviously is, so forget it.” I sighed.
What a way to ruin an almost perfect evening.
“I didn’t say it was a big deal,” he said. “I just—”
“You just what? Never lived with anyone before?”
“No,” he replied immediately with a huff, then took a deep breath. “I’m sorry. Like I said, it just… it took me by surprise. Don’t be like that. Please?”
“Like what?”
“Like your whole world has just been destroyed and like you’ve made the biggest mistake of your life. You haven’t. I-I’ll think about it. I promise.”
He pulled me into his arms for an embrace, and I tried to let it go.
Adam was right. It had come out of nowhere. What exactly did I expect? And I hadn’t really given him a chance to breathe before I went off on a tangent. It wasn’t his fault that we hadn’t discussed our future.
Our relationship was still new. And even if I felt safer and happier by his side than I’d ever felt before, it didn’t mean that we had to jump ahead and make snap decisions.
“I’m sorry,” I said, still clinging on to him, holding him tighter than before.
“There’s nothing to apologize for,” he said, rubbing his hand along my back. “I was the one who overreacted.”
“And I was the one that said I’d be leaving in five months, which wasn’t fair on you,” I said.
