Page 13 of Chaotic Curse
Except when he told me to get out of Eagle’s hospital room, but I leave that part out.
“Good.”She narrows her eyes.“What exactly is going on between you two?”
I bite my lip.“I don’t think I need to spell it out.I spent the night there.”
“I know, sweetie.”She squeezes my shoulder.“And I think you know that I want to ask if you’re okay.”
“I am, actually.I know I’m young, and I know I’ve been through…”
“You don’t have to go into any detail.”
“I know that, too.But in a way… In a way, I lost my virginity last night.”
She raises her eyebrows.
“You know.I mean…consensually.”
“Your emotional virginity,” she says.
“That’s it, exactly.So I’m trying to look at this without getting too emotional.I mean, it was amazing, and I don’t have any regrets.”I look down.“But I’m also feeling some things that I never thought I’d be capable of feeling.But I’m young, and it seems too soon to be feeling anything like that.It was just sex, right?”
She smiles.“Do you care for him?”
“Of course.That’s what I mean by feelings.”
“Then it wasn’t just sex, Dani.It was something very special between the two of you.If he has any sense at all, he’ll return your feelings.”
“So you don’t disapprove?”
“Why would I disapprove?”
“Because I’m so much younger than he is.”
She grabs my hand.“Dani, I fell for Vinnie so quickly.Before I really even knew anything about him.Love can be like that, you know?It can sneak up on you when you least expect it.”
My cheeks warm.“I didn’t say anything about love.”
“You don’t have to, sweetie.”She grins.“It’s in your eyes.”
I blink.
“You can try to hide it, but it’s there.I know you’re young, and I know you’re confused, given your past.But my brother is a good man.I love all my siblings equally, but Hawk is special.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah.He’s strong in a way that is hard to describe.He’s always concerned with what’s right.”
I nod.“I can tell that about him already.”
“He’s always been that way.If he thinks something is unjust, it bothers him.”She looks at my ice cream bowl.“Come on.Let’s sit down with the others before that mass of ice cream melts.”
We walk back to the table, and I sit down next to Vinnie on the end.Raven sits across from him.
“Where are Falcon and Savannah?”Raven asks, pointing to two unfinished bowls of ice cream on the table.
“Falcon got a call, and he left to take it,” Robin says.“Savannah went with him.”
“Baby,” Vinnie says to Raven, “I’m going to need to head home after the ice cream.I have a meeting that I can’t miss.Do you want to stay?”
