Page 123 of High Stakes and Soulmates
I tuck my head against his shoulder as I wrap my shaking arms around him. It’s no wonder I was so drawn to him the first time I met him. It’s no wonder he felt so comfortable to me. It’s no wonder I was prepared to tear the world apart for him from the first day I met him as Cyrus and the first day I met him as Arturo. “I’ve never stopped loving you for one moment since the day I met you,” I whisper.
His arms tighten. “I don’t know what I did to deserve such love and devotion.”
I close my eyes and simply feel him in my arms. If he let me, I would sit here for the rest of my life. As long as I could hold him, I could know that I would never lose him again.
“Stop crying so hard,” he says. “You’re crying harder than I can wipe the tears away.”
“I love you so much. I love you as Cyrus and then I get to love you as Arturo too.”
“You’re being ridiculous. I’m really not that exciting. And the Arturo you told me about was so sweet and nice. I don’t know if I can be that nice.”
“I don’t want you to change a single thing about you. You’re absolutely perfect.”
“You’re really love blind, you know that?” he asks. “I feel like I could be a hardened criminal and you’d still be like, ‘You’re perfect!’”
“You can murder anyone you want, and I will happily help you bury the body,” I assure him.
“I feel like you’re saying that in a romantic way and I’m hearing it in a concerning way.”
“Don’t be concerned.”
“I want to hear more. I want to see if any of it jogs my memory,” he says. “What if we start with the first time we made love? Tell me about that.”
I laugh, unable to stop myself. “That’s your pick?”
“Yes. And then we’ll go to the first time we made love for the second time.”
“But we haven’t… oh,” I say.
“Right? Go on now.”
“Yeah. Uh… you were like, ‘I’ve never seen such a magnificent dick!’”
“That’s what I said? Really? First time I saw it?”
“Word for word,” I tease.
“Oh wow. I really must not have seen too many dicks. Was I a virgin?”
“No… but I sure was.”
“Oh no.”
“Stop! Don’t act like you know how it happened!”
“I’m not! I’m just saying that sometimes… for someone’s first time… they get excited quickly.”
“I got excited really quickly,” I admit, and Cyrus laughs before hastily quieting himself.
“I’m sorry, I’m not laughing. Please, go on.”
“You told me I had the stamina of a workhorse.”
“Oh wow!”
“And that I pleasured you in ways you’d never seen.”
“I’m going to have to experience this firsthand to know.”
