***A brief s****l scene is ahead***
Elena
“Why did you want to come back here?” my date asks, lying beside me on the picnic table where we had our first date.
I look up to the quiet, darkening sky to see the faint sparkles of the stars emerging from the depths of the universe. Not one cloud taints the canvas, nor is there a breeze. All is still and calm. “You said that our date out here was real. It’s a happy memory for me.”
A moment of silence passes as we soak in the romance of the evening… that is until I ask, “What did you mean when you said that you were selfish, especially with me?”
He takes a deep breath beside me. A warm, calloused hand engulfs mine between our bodies. “When it comes to you, I will do whatever I can to keep you in my life. I know it’s selfish, but I don’t want
