Page 114 of Good Girl's Guide to Love
And I love her. So fucking much.
guide to love #70
When you find your person, you realize how different things were before them. And what true love really is.
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ainsley
We weren’t eventwo steps inside Linc’s apartment before we were stripping each other. It was a matter of seconds until he was kissing every inch of my body, his hands touching every part of me his mouth wasn’t. Within minutes he was inside of me, thrusting into me like a man possessed.
And I loved every second of it. It mirrored what I felt in the moment as I was telling that horrible woman how it was.
Linc’s body was saying, “She’s mine.”
And when I was facing her, that’s the only thing that was going through my head.He’s mine.
This shouldn’t surprise me. Linc has always known what I’ve needed. Even before we began the physical part of our relationship, the man somehow has always had a sense about me.
He knew when I needed help that night at the bar.
He knew how to navigate the first meeting with my siblings.
He knew how I needed to be touched when I didn’t have a clue.
And now, as we lay in his bed—his fingers gently stroking my back as I aimlessly trace the ink on his chest—we both knowthat we needed this. The silence after the passion. To process everything that’s happened in a matter of hours.
“Am I stupid?”
His question surprises me, and I turn to look at him, needing to know where that came from. “The initial answer is no. But now I need to know why you asked that?”
I roll off his chest, propping my head up with my hand, but Linc makes sure I’m not far away, pulling my body into him. “Katie. I trusted her. But the way she started acting recently? I don’t know…something was off, and I ignored it. I feel like I’ve been played.”
I bring his hand up to my lips, gently kissing his palm in hopes of some comfort. “My answer stands that you’re not stupid. We put our trust into people, and she was no different. She probably did have your best interests at heart at some point, but something happened along the way. We just don’t know what.”
“You happened,” he says. “The second you came into my life, things shifted.”
I had that thought, but didn’t want to say anything and sound conceited. “I knew she never liked me. That was evident from the first day we met. But, being me, I assumed I was reading into things that weren’t there. That changed when she showed up in the suite that first game I went to.”
“What did happen that day? You never filled me in.”
Oh, shoot. Now I feel guilty. “I meant to, I promise, Linc. But after we had that little exchange in the tunnel, we got in the car and then we came here and…”
“Then you sucked my dick wearing my jersey,” he says with a wink. “I guess I can forgive you for that. In my defense, I forgot everything that happened before that as well.”
I relax, and of course, blush a little, because that day was pretty hot. “I really didn’t mean to hold out on you. But thenafter that, I didn’t really see her again. I’m assuming she saw you, but she avoided me. I honestly didn’t think about it until today.”
“It’s okay,” he says, kissing my forehead for good measure. “It’s just…something’s not adding up.”
“I have theories, but they don’t make sense.”
“What are they?” he asks. “Because I’m clueless.”
“My first one is that she has feelings for you.”
“Really?” he asks, clearly not thinking on the same path as me. “Besides being a little touchy-feely, she’s never come across that way.”
“I know,” I say. “It was my first thought. But then, why would she set us up? If she truly had feelings for you, getting you a fake girlfriend is the worst idea in the world.”
