Page 58 of Mending Me

Before he opened the door, he pulled me against his hip and looked at me fiercely.

“Thanks for coming with me and being on my arm tonight. I can’t wait to watch all the guys drool over you the rest of the evening.”

“Is that all you see me as? Just some hot piece of ass to show off?” I rolled my eyes and joked.

He pulled me in for a long, slow kiss that felt more intimate than what had just happened in the closet where we still stood.

“No, Bailey, that’s not all I see you as. I see you as so much more than that. I see you as the most gorgeous woman I have ever laid eyes on. The strongest woman I have ever met. And the woman who I am totally and completely falling in love with,” he said the last few words with so much ease and I could feel my heart start to quicken. Before I could speak, he pressed his lips to mine again and pulled me even closer to his chest.

“Now, let’s go back out there and pretend like we didn’t just totally fuck in this closet.”

He opened the door and I didn’t have any choice but to put on a poker face and make it through the rest of the night as if he hadn’t turned me over a table and fucked my brains out.

Oh, and as if he didn’t just tell me that he is falling in love with me.

1 beautiful

2 sweetheart

3 Thank you god for making me a lucky man.

4 beautiful

5 beautiful

6 I feel you getting tighter.

7 Come for me again, beautiful.

8 Come for me now.

9 You’re so fucking sexy

33

HANK

The last few weeks of summer rolled past like the horse drawn carriages that roll down Calhoun Street each day. Bailey and I fell into a rhythm over the last month where we would see one another at the gym, text throughout the day, and then every few nights she would come and stay at my place. She hadn’t said anything about my‘I’m falling in love with you’comment that I’d let slip as we exited the janitor’s closet at the benefit. Part of me wanted to ask her if she felt the same way but we were in a good place and I didn’t want to jeopardize that. My phone buzzed on the top of my desk, pulling me out of my thoughts.

Dungeons and Dickheads: 1 New Message

Malcolm:

There’s an event at the bar today and there’s going to be leftovers. You shitheads want some? I can bring them to campaign night.

Kolbi:

I’ll never turn down free food.

Conrad:

You better not be late again Malcolm.

Malcolm:

Conrad, pull the stick out of your ass, I was late once and that was literally back in June. It’s September. Let it go.

Malcolm:

---