Total pages in book: 32
Estimated words: 30218 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 151(@200wpm)___ 121(@250wpm)___ 101(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 30218 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 151(@200wpm)___ 121(@250wpm)___ 101(@300wpm)
The dim light coming in his window illuminated the room in the faint, multicolored glow of the Christmas lights he still had hung up outside.
“You want to know something?” he asked. “I know neither of us are virgins, or whatever. But everything we do together still feels like it’s a first.”
I hummed. “I feel exactly the same way, actually. It’s strange how you can live a whole life, and still feel like you’re starting over again, all the time.”
“So that feeling never ends, huh?”
“Never,” I confirmed. “And I kind of like it.”
“I noticed,” Casey teased. “You really, really like doing new things, especially when it involves my thighs.”
I squeezed his hip. “Damn right, I do.”
He sighed sweetly. I knew we were both drifting off to sleep slowly, but both of us could also talk for hours.
“I have so much fun with you,” he murmured. I could hear the sleepiness in his voice, but I knew he meant every word.
“I do, too,” I said. “More fun than I knew I could have.”
“You’re my favorite, Rome,” he said softly.
I swore my heart could have cracked into a thousand beautiful pieces, hearing that. Part of me had assumed no one would ever say things like that to me again.
“I know we’re going to take things slow, Casey,” I said in a low voice. “But I’m down to try anything, with you. You’ve brought more light to my life than it’s had in a long while.”
He nuzzled back against me, reaching one hand back to grab my hand and squeeze it.
“We’ll take things as slow as you want to,” he said, “but I’m not going anywhere. And I think you know that.”
My heart pounded. “I know.”
We slowly drifted to sleep, holding each other.
It had been a strange Christmas. And I’d done things I never thought I would do. But I wouldn’t change a single thing, now. Not for the world.
Somehow, I was right where I was supposed to be. Happy. Grateful. A lucky fucker, for sure. And there was nowhere else I’d rather be for the new year than right here with Casey.
- The End -