Page 100 of Sweet Sin

“I know that.” She curls her hands into fists. “I know that, damn it. But these days. They’ve all blurred together, and I… I…” Tears well in her eyes.

“Hey. I didn’t mean to—”

“I know you didn’t.” She grips my shoulders. “I want you too. Don’t you know that? But this can’t be us, Falcon. We can’t be the couple who has sex every time something goes wrong. It’s a bandage. A patch. It doesn’t fix anything.”

“Bandages work miracles sometimes, Vannah.” I lead her hand to the bulge in my jeans. “And I could use a miracle about now.”

“Falcon—”

“Say it.”

She looks at me, her eyebrows raised. “Say what?”

I shake my head. “You don’t even know, do you?”

“Falcon, I—”

“You didn’t say it back, Savannah. I told you I love you, and you didn’t say it back.”

My words.

Does she remember?

“I was… I was… Your dick was in my mouth, Falcon, and I—”

“My dick’s not in your mouth now, Vannah. Ideally, I’d like it in your tight cunt, but you stopped me.”

“I—”

“I’ve only said those words to a woman once before, and I didn’t feel half for her what I feel for you. You’re a drug to me, Savannah. But a sweet drug that I never knew I needed. The kind of drug that eats at you, body and soul, but that you’d die without.”

“A…a drug?”

“I’m not a poet, Vannah. But I fucking love you, damn it.”

She scrapes her fingers over my cheek. “How could you doubt me?”

“Easy. I haven’t heard you say it.”

She tilts her head up and kisses me gently. “I love you, Falcon. You. With all your flaws and with all your fire. With all your strength and your good, good heart. You, Falcon Bellamy.”

I close my eyes, savor her words. Nothing about drugs. Just simple words of love.

“But…” she continues, “that doesn’t mean we should fuck in here. We can fuck at home.”

“At my home?”

“Well, yeah. Mine’s unlivable at the moment.”

“At our home, Savannah. It’s our home.” I pull her to me and kiss her hard.

I grind my cock into her belly, but she pushes back again.

“I love you, Falcon. I want you. But not here. I can’t. Not again. Too much has gone on here.”

“Yeah. Our first fuck, and I wouldn’t change it.”

She cocks her head, her eyes wide. “Wouldn’t you? Do you remember what happened that night, Falcon?”

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