Page 69 of Promise Yule Be Mine
Surely I hadn’t heard right.
“Huh?”
“I’m ace too. More like demi but I really don’t like labeling myself to the nth degree. I prefer a good cuddle to a blowjob and I don’t need sex to love and be with someone.”
Was it possible…could it be that Nova wasn’t just the perfect human specimen but that he was also the perfect person for me?
“So…you don’t think I’m broken?” I asked. I just needed to make sure.
He cooed.
“Not unless I’m broken too.”
“Oh,” I said and, slowly, my lips curved up into a smile. A smile I couldn’t erase for the rest of the night. Not that I would want to anyway.
We kissed again. We hugged. We lay down next to each other holding hands, rubbing our legs together to keep warm, wegazed into each other’s eyes. We did it all except for the one thing that wasn’t important to us.
“Are you sure it’s not a deal-breaker? You think we can make it work without…sex?”
I couldn’t stop asking these questions. I couldn’t hold back because I was still in utter disbelief.
“Of course we can. Why couldn’t we?”
“What…what makes this different than just being friends?”
“Because,” he said and cupped my cheek. “I don’t share my fears and dreams with everyone. And most importantly, I don’t do this with friends.”
He smiled and closed the distance between our mouths, kissing me.
And we kissed and cuddled all the way into the morning.
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NOVA
Iopened my eyes, fearing last night had been nothing but a dream, and yet…
He was there. In bed, with me, with his hand resting on my waist as if it belonged there. It all came flooding back to me. The kiss, the dash to the airport, the truth. Admitting we were falling in love with each other.
I had been so scared that if I opened my eyes that morning I would find none of it had happened, that I'd gone back to worrying about Jenna's wedding plans and my growing feelings for her fiancé. Everything had happened so fast I was surprised I hadn't got whiplash.
Kody was in love with me. He was in love with me and I was in love with him, and admitting it or acting on it hadn't betrayed my friend's trust. He could be mine and I could be his. And there was nothing, nothing I wanted more than to be his.
As if we were even compatible in our sexual preferences, which were none with a little cherry on top of a whole bunch of nothing. We couldn't have been a more perfect match if we tried.
I didn't know how long I stayed still, watching him sleep, feeling his breath warm on my face, his hand on me making me feel safe and wanted and…cozy.
I'd never felt like this before. As if there was a future, which was a wild leap to make in my head, but…I also couldn't help how I felt.
Eventually, I managed to peel myself off him and the idea of him, of us and got up to make coffee. Jenna wasn't here. She must still be at Aunt Maria's. I felt slightly guilty at that thought, of having Jenna cast out of her own home just so her two best friends could be together. Then again, after everything she’d put me through with all the fake wedding emergencies it was the least she could do.
As the coffee maker made a fine hazelnut roast that suited the chilly Christmas Falls morning wonderfully, my gaze landed on my laptop and notebook.
"Shoot. The wedding," I mumbled.
What was going to happen with the wedding? Were they going to go ahead with it? Were they going to cancel everything? What about all the money they'd already sunk into it?
The coffee maker clicked and I poured two cups, a generous serving of sugar for Kody's and a little sprinkling for me, finished it off with cream and returned to the bedroom. Before I could wake him up, Kody stirred, opened his eyes, and smiled.
