“I’m never leaving you,” I interrupt.
I don’t want her to think about what could’ve happened.
Whatever’s in the past is in the past, and I’m done lingering there where the ghosts remain.
“Pinky swear.” She holds out her pinky finger.
So I hold out mine too, and we cross them. “Promise.”
But before she can pull away, I drag her closer and smash my lips on hers. I’ll never get enough of the taste of her lips, of how easily she’s accepted me into her heart despite all the terrible things I did. And something about that makes me insanely proud.
“So… you love me, huh?” I murmur against her swollen lips. “I heard you out there in the woods.”
A blush spreads on her cheeks. “I …”
“How long have you been pining over me?”
“Forever,” she admits.
A devilish smirk forms on my lips. “Yet you couldn’t stop hiding from me on campus.”
“Because you got all beefed up, and it scared me to even look at you without feeling weak.”
I chuckle. “I got all beefed up because I thought it would finally make you look. Guess it had the opposite effect of what I wanted to achieve.”
She bites her bottom lip and squeezes my biceps. “I can get used to it.”
“Can you?” I squeeze them for her pleasure.
The soft moan that leaves her lips makes me wild. “Oh yes, definitely.”
And I pull her in for another fierce kiss, unwilling to ever let go of this firefly of mine.
Apollo
With two bottlesof Coke in one hand, I open the door to Levi’s room with the other, but I stop the second I see them smooching like lovers, and I grin when they both look up at me like they’re surprised. “Well, don’t stop the party because I’ve arrived.”
“Sorry, forgot,” Aspen mutters, blushing like crazy, and it’s kinda cute.
I put the bottles down. “Forgot I was here with you?” I bring a fist to my chest to pretend I got stabbed. “Don’t hurt me, Freckles.”
“I could never forget you,” she responds, winking as I approach. “Like you’d ever let me.”
“Good point,” I say, winking back.
I grab her by the waist and pull her in for a very big kiss just to remind Levi that she isn’t just his. She’s mine too, and there’s plenty of her to go around for us three to share.
I suck on her delicious mouth before I pull back to watch those swollen red lips reach for more as I hand her the Coke bottle and grin. “Got us some drinks, because you’re so thirsty.”
“Ha ha,” she replies.
“Drink while we wait for him to grow back his limbs like some freaky-ass lizard.”
“Asshole,” Levi responds with a frown.
“Back to your old self, I see.”
“Just had some scratches. No big deal.”
