Page 20 of Manny for the Alien
It was time to take the reins again, even if it made my wings jitter with nerves.
Outside of Marco’s door, I stopped. For a moment I wondered if I should just walk in, but he had already accused me of doing something he hadn’t wanted once today and I didn’t want him to think of me as that type of man ever again.
Reaching up, I knocked gently. Inside, there was a shocked gasp and then silence.
I waited, but he didn’t come to the door. He wasn’t planning on answering me, was he?
“Marco?” I asked quietly. “May I come in to talk?”
“Um...”
There was a long silence.
“There’s nothing to talk about,” he finally said. Even through the door, I could hear his voice trembling.
Cursing silently, I looked up and down the hallway to Azalea’s room and then the nursery. I didn’t want to wake them by standing here and saying what I wanted to in the open.
Biting my lip, I reached for the doorknob.To my relief, the door wasn’t locked.
Marco was sitting on his bed looking defeated before I even said anything.
“I won’t come in if you insist,” I said. “But know that I want to speak to you and Iwillwhether it is right now or the next time we are alone together.”
Sighing, he shook his head.
“It’s fine. Come in. Let’s get this over with.”
I paused.
“Get this over with?” I repeated. “That is the very last thing I want. In fact, I am hoping that there might be something between us that can last.”
Marco stared for so long, that I closed the door and came to sit next to him on the bed before he managed to blink a couple of times, shake his head and give me an incredulous look.
“Hyacinth,” he said slowly. “What...”
“I am still new to this planet,” I said gently, taking his hands in my own once more. He allowed me and that gave me the courage to continue. “From what I saw, humans move very slowly. I spoke to people on the dating app we met on for weeksbefore even getting to speak to them and then from what I understand, you are lucky to even get a date.”
Marco bit his lip.
“That is basically online dating in a nutshell,” he agreed. “But it’s not always like that. If people are really interested, they move a lot faster than that.”
“I see that now.”
He looked down at our joined hands, his cheeks darkening to that pretty pink as they often did.
“So are you trying to tell me that youareinterested? Or am I about to make a fool of myself again?”
“Does this answer your question?” I asked, and leaned into him, tilting his chin up so that I could reach his lips properly.
This time, the touch of his lips sent a shock of butterflies into my stomach, followed by heat that filled my blood stream.
As my lips moved against his, tasting sweetness that was quickly morphing into lust, he made that noise again. Again, the unconscious moan made him freeze and pull back, but this time, he didn’t go far.
“Are we now going too fast for human dating?” I asked gently. I didn’t want to pull away yet. I wanted more and Marco did too. The scent of his lust was flowing over me, taking my own desires up even higher. But there was a hearty amount of nerves mixed in too and I couldn’t ignore that.
His hand tightened in the front of my shirt, keeping me where I was, close enough to brush our lips together while we spoke.
“Honestly, I would take anything you’d be down to give me right now.”
