I feel like I fell down the damn rabbit hole. Maybe she’d had a nice dream or some shit because the woman who came back from her nap was a completely different person to the one who’d driven back from the island.

Between the supermarket run and the baking I wasn’t sure what the fuck to think. And that kiss before I left the kitchen just now, a kiss that she initiated, only left me more confused. Happy, delighted, but confused as all hell all the same.

“What’s up with her?” I whispered the question to Travis as soon as we hit the upstairs gym. She had me so spooked I was still whispering even though I knew she couldn’t hear us.

“Here’s a tip. When she’s mad she cooks like an angel, when she’s happy she bakes like a queen. Keep those two things straight and you’ll be just fine.”

“Damn, I’m gonna gain weight.” I removed some of the weights from the bar as he laid back on the bench to lift.

“Why do you say that?”

“Because she’s always going to be happy.” Can’t ever fucking win.

I worked through my sets after spotting him without feeling a thing, because my mind was filled with her and what had brought about the change.

She was still in the kitchen when we headed back downstairs, and swear to fuck I think she was singing. I sniffed my sweaty arms debating if I should go to her or get cleaned up first. Of course she won, she always will.

I peeped around the doorway and she was puttering around the kitchen with a bowl in her hand mixing something with a wooden spoon, singing at the top of her lungs.

I couldn’t resist. Seeing her this happy made me all kinds of fucked up. I walked into the room and she looked up in surprise as I walked over and took her face in my hands.

I caught her lips and laid one on her with the bowl between us. “I like seeing you like this.” I left her and hit the shower.

The surprises didn’t end there. All evening and into the night she was the most relaxed I’d ever seen her. When I pulled her onto my lap to watch TV she didn’t complain, but made herself comfortable, even turned her face up for a kiss before turning back to the screen.

And later when I took her to bed after she started to fade, it was she who held me back and wouldn’t let me leave. It was she who pulled my head down to hers for our nightly kiss.

I ended up covering her on the bed as the kiss got hotter. By the time I moved off of her, my dick had gone beyond just being hard and my damn eyes were crossed. But as hot as her innocent kisses were that night, I knew she still wasn’t ready.

Besides, when I take her the first time I don’t want any witnesses to what I’m going to do to her. I have no doubt that once I get inside her shit’s going to get wild.

I didn’t want to leave her though, didn’t want to wake up the next day to a change, so I laid in bed next to her with her head on my chest until she fell asleep. I’d planned on leaving as soon as she passed out, but found myself reluctant to let her go.

Her weight on my chest felt right, being that close to her felt like it was meant to be. I must’ve smelt her hair and kissed her temple a hundred times as I listened to her easy breathing in sleep.

I let myself relax and realized I’d been tensed up all night waiting for the other shoe to drop. Travis said goodnight from the doorway a little while later and closed the door before heading off to bed.

His show of trust in me was just one more reason for me not to fuck up. I don’t know anyone who, knowing their history, would do that shit lightly.

I tried getting out of her bed a little while later when I was sure she was down for the night, but she made a complaining sound in her throat and held onto me. I was really starting to eat up these little shows of affection.

It was morning the next time I opened my eyes but this time unlike the last, she was still asleep. I laid there taking in the feel of her in my arms, ignoring the raging hard on that pushed against the shorts I’d slept in.

I rolled to the side putting her beneath me and kissed her awake. The kiss was soft and sweet and when I pressed my hard cock into her she opened her thighs invitingly, not quite fully awake.

I dry fucked her until I reached the point where I was going to embarrass myself before pulling back. “Good morning.” I placed little nibbling kisses around her lips and was rewarded with the feel of her hands as they moved over my back.

Fuck, I could wake up like this every day for the rest of my life and that would do me.

“You slept here?” Her eyes were clear and bright as she smiled up at me. I thought my heart was going to explode at that smile.

I nodded my answer and lowered my head for one last kiss before climbing out of her bed. “You have dance today right, and then that’s it?” She rolled over and hugged the pillow I’d just left.

“Yes, I have to get up soon.” She sniffed my scent from the pillow before looking back at me with an impish grin. The fuck is going on? I wasn’t exactly wary when I backed out of her room, but it was close.

All morning I tried to get a bead on just what the hell was going on in her head. While she’d been in the shower I’d made a quick call to mom who had no answer as to why the sudden change, and I wasn’t about to ask Anna for fear of things going back to the way they were before.

I decided to just watch her and enjoy the peace for now. My biggest surprise came when she actually brought up using the dance floor at the club for her school as Tony drove her to school that morning.

“If the offer still stands I’d love to use the space, but only if you let me pay you something. With that much space I can take the kids I had to reject before. I can probably offer more classes, I’ll have to rearrange my schedule. It would mean you losing a waitress though.”

She was actually sitting with her body turned to me and her hand held in mine. She was animated and excited as she spoke in a way that I’d never heard before.

“Do you have any ideas about what you want to do with the place?”

“There isn’t much that needs to be done, just the bars added on the wall I think. The floor is already perfect.”

“Just let me know if there’s something you need done and I’d get it done.”

“I wouldn’t want to change too much, it’s your place of business after all. Plus I like an aesthetic space with not too much crap on the walls. My girls are going to be too busy learning to dance to care about such things.”

Tony kept giving me what the fuck looks in the mirror but I had nothing for him. If she’d taken some new medication or some shit I hope it never wore off.

This time when we pulled up she waited for me to let her out and even let me walk her to the door. She didn’t freak when I pulled her in for a kiss and I damn near skipped back to the car.

“Okay, what the fuck happened?” That was my greeting from Tony when I got back inside. “Whatever it is I’m glad.” Travis answered him. “That’s the closest I’ve seen to the old her. What did you do?”

He turned and twirled his eyes at me. “I would love to take credit, but I’m just as lost as you two.” At this point I really didn’t care. I was just happy to see that look on her face.

I’m sure I had mom to thank for part of the change though. Her soft no nonsense attitude seemed to get through to Annabelle better than my gruff approach.

The girl who’d fought me tooth and nail was now very excited about using the club for her school like she didn’t try to bite my head off when I mentioned the same damn thing to her.

For the next few days shit was chaotic. First was getting Travis settled in at mom’s over the weekend, then getting the club ready for her school. I got to see another side to her then. She’s a kickass business woman.

She had a game plan in place already and once she got the ball rolling it was full steam ahead. By the middle of the following week she had more clients for her school and had already told her existing customers about the move which no one seemed to mind.

She had a website up and running by Sunday night and showed me excitedly all the hits she was getting. I worried that there were too many people trying to sign up their kids but she took it all in stride.

We’d been circling around each other in the apartment since it was just us two there now. I didn’t use the opportunity to jump on her the first chance I got, but still kept to my promise to give her time.

That doesn’t mean that I didn’t have my hands on her every chance I got. By that first weekend she’d grown used to my kissing and pawing at her at all hours of the day. I was training her ass and she didn’t even know it.

I’d talked her into taking some time off from working at the restaurant to concentrate on getting her school ready. Since her brother was squared up she could take a breather.

The woman was fierce as fuck once given her wings. I stepped back and let her do her thing without any interference from me. As long as whatever she was doing wasn’t harmful I was good. But when that shit crossed the line I put my foot down.

Like the night I made her go to bed when she wanted to stay up from four in the morning to midnight to work on her shit. She didn’t put up too much of an argument, progress.

We were in the habit of sleeping together now, though we hadn’t moved to my bed but always ended up in hers. I was saving my bed for that special night. Because once I get her in there, that would be the last time she sleeps anywhere else.

The more time we spent together the more relaxed she was, and the more open. And the more I learned the more in love with her I became. I loved her mix of strength and vulnerability that pulled at me like nothing else ever could.

No matter what else was going on, I spent part of each day with her in my lap for at least an hour. By day three I had her top off and her nipple in my mouth.

Our make out sessions were getting hot and heavy until we reached the point where she’d search me out when she needed some loving. She has the cutest way of letting me know when she needs some attention from her man.

It was usually when she’d hit a roadblock of some kind, or something was plaguing her mind. She’d find me wherever in the apartment I happened to be and rub her little face on my shoulder.

I’d lift my arm and let her under for a hug and a forehead kiss and refrain from questioning her until she was ready to share. I was learning to let her handle the things that she could, but it wasn’t easy.

I wanted to take the reins and move all obstacles out of her way. To use my name and fame to make everything go smooth, but she always balked. Out of respect for the feminist in her I usually backed down, but I still keep an eye out because if she needs me I’ma do what I need to regardless.

There were times when the past intruded and she’d panic, but at those times I always brought her around. Tonight she was a little melancholy, I was so attuned to her moods that I knew something was on her mind.

“What’s bothering you? Is it Travis?” They’d spoken not that long ago after dinner. We were sitting in the media room with the TV going in the background, but I couldn’t tell you what the hell was on.

She’d been in my lap for the past twenty minutes, not nearly time to call it quits. I’d left a nice size hickey on her neck and was working my way to her tits when I noticed the slight tension in her.

“No, nothing like that.” She leaned her neck to the side giving me access and her breath hitched when I sucked her nipple between my teeth. I dropped the hardening pebble long enough to ask, “So what is it?”

“It’s nothing, I’m just thinking over some stuff for the school.” I stopped what I was doing for a second before going back to her nipple. See, I too had made progress. A week ago I would’ve pushed until she told me and then tried to fix the problem myself.

“Did you give any thought to what I asked you?” I was leaving in the morning to head out to Miami and I wanted her with me. She was in the middle of her plans and didn’t think it wise to leave now, which was understandable, but I wasn’t ready for us to be apart.

Instead of me training her this past week, it was my ass that was on a leash. “I can’t, I have way too much to do.”

I sucked hard on the flesh over her nipple and felt her squirm in my lap. Her fingers dragged through my hair holding my head closer as she tried to push her nipple back into my mouth.

“But I’m going to miss you.” I sounded like a whiny bitch no disrespect to whiny bitches. But I was already dreading getting on the plane. We’ve hardly been far away from each these last few days and I’d gotten used to it.

I liked being able to walk one room over and finding her there. Or at the club I could leave the office and head upstairs for a look or a feel. Now I’m going to be away from her for a whole damn week.

“I’ll miss you too, but it’s only for a few days. You’ll be back before you know it.”

“Just promise me you’d call if you need me.”

“Max!” She took my face in her hands and looked into my eyes. “I thought you said I was your strong brave girl.”

“You are.” Damn, she would use my own words against me. I didn’t tell her but there was another reason I didn’t want to leave her behind. My guys had lost Ray Morrison yesterday and no one knows where he went to ground. “Fine, but if you’re staying in the city I’m leaving Tony here with you.”

“What why? I don’t need a babysitter.”

“It’s not up for debate baby.” It hadn’t been that easy talking his ass around either. Until I convinced him that watching over her was the same as him having my back.

Once I got it through his head that I wouldn’t get shit done if I left her here without one of us to protect her he gave in, though not happily.

“But who’s going to take care of you if you leave him here?”

“I have a whole crew to look out for me baby, but he’s the only one I trust with you.”

I circled her nipple with my fingertip as we spoke and watched it pebble and become red. “Take this off.” I tugged at the bottom of her top. She hesitated briefly, her face going red before obeying me. She’s too adorable with her shy self.

I helped her pull it off over her head exposing her perfect tits to my eyes. I cupped one of the round globes in my hand as my face grew tight with need. I lowered my head slowly as I took in her naked flesh for the first time. “You’re perfect.”

I whispered the words just before closing my lips around the morsel and sucking in deep. Since I was leaving her for a few days, that night I planned to turn things up a notch. I needed something to tide me over while she was out of my orbit.

I sucked on her flesh like a starving pup until her ass squirmed on my growing cock and I knew she wasn’t thinking about anything but what I was doing to her. Only then did I get to my feet with her held carefully in my arms and made my way down the hallway.

I had a moment’s hesitation once I reached the head of the hallway. Should I take her to my bed or hers? I stopped outside her door before turning back to mine.

I put her down once inside the room and covered her lips with mine, crushing her chest into mine. I felt the pointed tips of her nipples through my shirt, and stepped back briefly to remove it. I wanted to feel her bare flesh against mine.

“Max…” I responded to the uncertainty in her voice, very attuned to her. “It’s okay baby, trust me.” I left my hands on her waist and went back to her lips, distracting her from her nervousness and the fact that there was a sea of bed behind her.

For the first time I realized just how tiny she really was, how vulnerable. All that she was hit me like a hammer to the head. This was the first time she’d let me get this far and because she was now a part of me, I couldn’t overlook anything.

In my hands I held the future of this sweet young girl whose life had already been fucked with. I knew and understood that she was trusting me, with so much more than just her body.

Fuck everything that came before, this was the moment which the man in me had to be honest with himself. Am I that guy who, knowing all that he does, could take her to my bed and leave her at some point down the road? Or am I the man I’ve always hoped I could be? There was no fucking question.

I took her head in my hands and devoured her lips. I’d jumped the final hurdle in my mind, there would be no turning back after this. Though I wasn’t going to push it to the limit tonight, I wanted to take things farther than ever before.

“I want to taste you, no don’t tense up, I promise not to go too far.” I whispered in her ear before lifting her in my arms again and moving to the bed.

I laid her gently back on the bed like the precious gem that she is and came down over her making sure not to crush her. I held her eyes with mine as I removed the rest of her clothes. Stopping along the way to taste her exposed flesh as it came into view.

I teased her and myself, dragging my tongue around her nipple before sucking it in deep. I sucked first one to hardness before moving onto the next for more of the same.

I was aware of every change in her as I moved slowly, bringing her along with me every step of the way. Learning what she liked and storing it away for future reference.

Like the way she arched her back when I pressed my cock into her heat while nibbling on her nipples. Or how her tummy trembled when I licked my way down her middle until I reached her Mons.

I inhaled deep, taking the scent of her aroused pussy into my lungs. My cock spat pre-cum in my shorts and I was tempted, very tempted to drag them off for some relief. But a promise is a promise.

She shyly tried closing her legs to keep me out so I had to gently persuade her to let me give her my mouth. “It’s okay trust me, you’re going to enjoy it.” I nipped her inner thigh before going for the prize.

I thought if I fucked around and took too long she might bolt, so I held her down with a hand pressed firmly on her tummy. She has a pretty pussy, smooth pink flesh with plump lips that were tightly closed. Virgin pussy!

The thought ran through my head giving me a jolt. It hadn’t once occurred to me that she could be untouched. But the possibility had all kinds of shit going through my head, all of it good.

I took a really good look at her pussy before sliding a finger along her slit. I tried opening her up, but her pussy hole was shut tight. The fuck! Is this shit for real?

I spread her open as far as I could which wasn’t much. I’m no expert, but something told me nothing had ever been inside her before. I had to clear the frog from my throat twice when I tried asking her.

“Are you a virgin baby?” Her face turned red and she looked away from me until I lowered my head and licked her slit once. “Tell me!”

“Yes!” My heart rolled in my chest and air got trapped in my lungs.

I looked up at her speechlessly from my place between her thighs, before my eyes went back to her tight little cunt in awe and some other emotion too strong for words.

“Really?” I felt like fucking crying, in fact I think my eyes were wet. Instead I buried my face between her thighs and held her hips tightly in my hands as raw emotion overwhelmed me.

I felt like I was flying, and my body trembled slightly as the force of what I felt overcame me. My mini meltdown seemed to give her courage because I felt her hand in my hair as if telling me to get a move on.

My hand actually shook when I touched her. If I wanted her before, the need was now tenfold. I never knew I was the kind of man who’d react so strongly to his woman being a virgin. Didn’t even know it mattered to me.

I eased my finger inside her slowly, gently. I wanted to feel her innocence myself but was afraid to hurt her. The tip of my finger butted against that thin membrane and that quickly everything changed for me.

No one else had ever had her. She was pure, unblemished, and she’s mine. I vowed to myself that in this life she would never know another man’s touch. The rush of possessiveness I felt was new to me but I accepted it.

My mind refused to settle and my heart felt as though it was trying to punch a hole through my chest. I still had a promise to keep so although I wanted to mount her and claim what’s mine, I fought to keep my word.

I played with her pussy, running my fingers over her flesh and down to her tight opening back and forth until she started to move under my hand.

I was hyper aware of everything that was going on around me. My senses were sharper than they were a minute ago as I took her all in. Not just her body that was in bed with me, but all that she was.

How did I get this lucky? Why did this one in a million woman walk into my life? I stored everything that I felt in those moments away, to keep close in my mind always. They will be reminders for the rest of my life of why I could never betray her.

Her pussy reacted to my fondling and soon her scent reached me. There was a bead of cunt juice leaking between her folds, just at the edge of her sweet opening.

I lowered my head and tasted her, dipping the tip

of my tongue inside her as far as it would go. That shit snapped around my tongue and my head grew light at the thought of how fucking tight she was going to be around my cock.

I had to press my dick into the bed in an effort to keep him from breaking out the gate. You promised Max, you can’t take her now, you can’t fuck; you can’t fuck…

I repeated that mantra until my dick got the message, too afraid to go any farther lest I break my word, but fuck was it hard. I pulled my tongue out of her and ran my nose along her inner thigh before taking her flesh between my teeth.

I think she came when I marked her. One look told me that I was right. Her pussy was juicing again and her thighs were trembling. I opened her with my fingers and licked her until she lifted off the bed.

She keened in her throat and pushed her pussy harder against my mouth until I gave her my tongue again. She coated it with her juices as her ass clenched tight in my hands.

Pressing my cock into the mattress wasn’t working

one fuck so I took the chance of working my shorts off and down my thighs, before kicking them off to give my cock and balls a break.

She stopped moving for a second when she realized what I was doing, afraid that I was going to take her. But when I didn’t try to mount her she calmed down again under my soothing hands.

Pulling my tongue out of her wet heat I moved onto her clit, teasing it out of hiding with my teeth and tongue before sucking it into my mouth.

Her too tight pussy could only take one finger, which I used to tease her, butting against her hymen gently until she creamed all over my hand.

My senses were heightened, her scent making me nuts but it was the sounds she made that were going to be my undoing. I was this close to letting my cock get at her.

“Baby you gotta stop making those noises.” I didn’t tell her why. That those fuck me noises were about to get her ass bred. I eased my finger out slowly and licked her clit a little softer to bring her down.

She stopped moaning for like two seconds, but as

soon as I plunged my finger back inside her and nibbled on her clit she went off again. I was glad her brother wasn’t here, because when she let go, she was like a siren blaring.

She howled and screeched as she thrashed around, her body lifting off the bed. I took my mouth away from her heat but kept thrusting my finger into her. I wanted to see her face when she came.

She spread her legs wide and grabbed at me as if begging me to fuck her. I knew she was just caught up in the moment so I had to keep a cool head, but fuck it was hard to resist.

I climbed up her body intending to hold her in my arms to offer comfort but her warm thigh brushed against the head of my cock and I saw stars. “Babe…”

I wrapped both arms around her, pressing my throbbing cock against her hungry pussy as I held her body down with my hips and sucked her nipple into my mouth.

I rubbed the length of my rod along her slit, making sure not to get anywhere near her tight little pussy hole as I clit fucked her.

She came hard, head thrown back, mouth open wide as she squeezed her legs around my ass. I felt my balls tighten up and tried to avert danger. “Baby let go.” She wrapped her arms and legs tighter around me, trapping my cock between us and my cock shot off. Oh fuck!

I held her through the after shocks all the while willing myself not to push my still hard cock inside her. The shit must’ve throbbed and spat for a good two minutes before calming the fuck down, but her nearness, and the scent of her pussy didn’t help.

“I can’t wait to get inside you.” I whispered in her ear before sucking the flesh just beneath her ear between my teeth. If she’s that fucking hot from a finger fuck I can only imagine what she’d do to my cock.

I thought for sure she’d freak when she came down, but instead for some fucked up reason we both started laughing.

We ended up rolling around in the bed, laughing in between some hot as fuck kisses that only got me going again. “Baby we gotta stop.” She did a little wiggle before releasing me from her clutches and I finally saw the damage.

“Let’s get you cleaned up.” She looked down at herself for the first time and noticed what I’d done to her.

“You didn’t get any of that inside me did you? Because I’m not on the pill.”

“No I didn’t.” But her words gave me something else to think about as I pulled her up from the bed. That was the first time I ever spilled outside of a condom other than when I was spraying the shower walls after a me time session. Something I hadn’t done in years.

I dragged her into my shower and got us both cleaned up, but my mind was still stuck on the fact that she wasn’t on birth control. I hadn’t even given the shit any thought but now that I did I find that I’m not as averse to the idea as I thought I would be.

Her screech and her body moving away from me jerked me out of my thoughts. “What, what happened, did I get soap in your eyes?” Max you fuck! I’d been daydreaming while washing her.

She pointed at my dick that was still semi hard because hello, naked beauty in front of me, and tried to get through the wall behind her. “What is that?” One of her hands went between her thighs as if protecting herself and I got the message. I tugged on her hand until she stood in front of me.

“Don’t worry, when the time comes I’ll make sure he fits.” She was already shaking her head before I covered her lips with mine. I realized she was really upset when I felt the slight shaking in her body.

“Hey, I’ll never hurt you, you have nothing to worry about.” I held her head in my hands before pulling it into my chest and soothing her with soft light kisses. She leaned against my chest while I finished washing her before taking care of myself.

“Stop looking at it if it scares you.” I was drying her off with a towel and her eyes were glued to my dick. “It’s like something you know you shouldn’t see, but you just can’t look away.”

“You calling my dick an accident?” I snort laughed and swatted her ass with the rolled up towel before running it over myself.

In the bedroom I pulled an old football jersey on over her head and nothing else. My dick was already leaking at the thought of cuddling up to

her fine ass. Maybe she’ll let me eat her again. I don’t think I’ll ever get enough of her taste.

She tried leaving the room but I pulled her back. “Where are you going? You’re sleeping here tonight.” I lifted her and took her back to bed.

“Shouldn’t we change the sheets?”

“After.”

I lost the towel and dropped down between her legs spreading her open with my shoulders. I took my time looking at her this time, teasing her opening with my fingertip before dipping it inside.

I thumbed her clit and fingered her until I felt her pussy tense up just before her juices escaped. Then I lifted her ass in my hands and brought her to my mouth.

I spent an hour just loving her with my tongue, bringing her off time and time again until she gave me what I wanted. Those same hot as fuck noises from before.

I gave serious thought to dry fucking her again but thought better of it. I wasn’t sure I could withstand that shit again. “What about you?” Bless her little heart. “Don’t worry about me, just let me take care of you.”

I ate her until she pushed my head away. Greedy fuck came like five times on my fingers and tongue. I’d used my head this time and stretched her around two of my fingers because I was sure it wasn’t going to be long before I tried to shove my cock in her.

I knelt between her spread thighs and stroked my cock while she caught her breath. Her eyes followed my hand’s action and my brave girl reached out and touched me.

I held still and let her go at her own pace, until that shit became unbearable. She was so fascinated I almost didn’t want to stop her, but if I didn’t she was going to get a face full of cock snot.

“Ease off babe.” I tried pulling out of her hand but she gripped my shit tighter. I almost climbed out of my skin when she stuck her tongue out and licked the pre-cum from my cockhead.

“Fuck me!” I had to grit my teeth and clench my fists, but when she sucked that shit, just the tip into her mouth I grabbed her hair. Tight!

I barely kept myself from face fucking her, but her shit was about to make me lose it. She was treating my dick like a science project. Taking it out and looking at it before taking it back into the soft warmth of her mouth.

Each time she took a little bit more until her cheeks were puffed out and she started to gag. “Easy, easy.” I brushed her hair with one hand and lifted her chin with the other.

I slipped my dick out of her mouth and lowered my head to hers but this girl was on a mission. She barely accepted my tongue in her mouth before kicking it out and going back for my dick.

I didn’t know if to howl at the fucking moon or kiss her damn feet. For all her obvious inexperience she had me going. Her slobbering and drooling all over my dick is the best thing I’ve ever felt.

She grabbed my balls in her soft little hand and moved her mouth up and down my cock as far as she could go. I snatched my shit out of her mouth after the first shot flew out of my dick and jerked the rest of it all over her chest and chin.

I dropped on my ass and almost fell off the damn

bed, breathing like a locomotive. I opened my eyes to her dipping her finger in my spooge and studying it before putting it in her mouth. Oh yeah, she’s as good as fucked.

“How is it?” I rested my head in my hand and watched her with a grin. I guess this is that mix of the two Annabelles. A cross between the girl she was before her life changed, and the one I’d met not so long ago.

She smacked her lips and fell onto my chest, rubbing my own jizz into my skin. “It’s not as weird as I thought it would be.”

“You’ve never done that either?”

“Nope.” She shook her head and rested her chin on her folded arms.

“How far have you gone?”

“How far have you?”

The fuck! I flipped us around putting her under me. “Tell me!” She did a little wiggle with her hips to distract me but that shit didn’t work. The longer she took to answer the wilder my imagination went until she put me out of my misery.

“I never had a boyfriend so I didn’t get to experiment.” Why those words should make me breathe easier is a mystery. Maybe it’s because of the shit I know I’ve done. I’m that guy, fuck.

“You’re going to turn me upside down aren’t you?” I didn’t bother answering the questioning look she gave me, it was enough that I knew what I was talking about.

I pulled her up from the bed for another round in the shower before we changed the sheets and got ready for bed. I was putting it off as long as I could because I knew I was going to be leaving her in a few hours and that shit sucked.

I fell asleep long after she did, with my arms wrapped around her and my heart happier than it had been in a long time.