Page 71 of Sweet Temptation
Lucky
I remember everything, Lex.
Lexie
The flowers are beautiful, Lucky.
Lucky
Am I forgiven?
Lexie
Have you forgiven yourself yet?
Lucky
For getting you sick back then?
Lexie
I won’t forgive you now until you forgive yourself for back then. It wasn’t your fault.
Lucky
I’d rather not talk about this over a text.
Lexie
When we talk in person, we end up having sex.
Lucky
And the problem with that is?
Lexie
I don’t want to hurt you, Lucky.
I stare at the unanswered text until my eyes hurt almost as much as my heart does.
And when I finally look up, he’s here, watching me in silence.
“When did you become important to me?” I whisper, my voice betraying my heart. “You weren’t supposed to be this great big thing in my life, Lucky.”
He crosses the kitchen in two strides and holds my face in his big hands. “You were always going to be the biggest thing in mine.” He presses our foreheads together, and his warm breath fans my face. “Let me in, Lexie. Let me love you.”
I slide his black ball cap off his head and dig my fingers into his hair, still damp from the shower after practice, and breathewith him for a minute. Trying to calm my racing heart. “I’m going to destroy you, Lucky.”
“Then let’s make every minute count.” He lifts me straight up, leaving my feet dangling beneath me, and crushes his lips to mine. “Please, baby.”
I don’t know what breaks me more.
His words.
His arms around me.
His willingness to be with me, even though we’ll never truly get our happy ending.
