“Yeah, but you love me.”
Nose flaring as she looked at him shocked he’d said that, it was like an unspoken rule between them not to.
But he’d technically broken it first.
The night on the beach, by the ocean. It had been during s*x so she’d tried to say it didn’t count. Because neither could think with her gripping his shirt, holding him closer as the moon made her beautiful skin glow. Moaning his name, taking him as he pushed her harder against a boulder, it was as he sent her over, waves crashing and his words pulled from his chest as she came for him, she heard it.
And he knew she had as she came again a little, as they finally came full circle.
“You heard me when I told you I loved you.” Cece shook her head and breathlessly whispered, “Stop.” She thought she wanted this, but
