Page 40 of A Lick and A Promise
And shocker.
I was not at all scared of it.
Oh no.
I was there for it.
I was there for how easily he gave me that. I didn’t like what he said, but I liked that he trusted me with it. That he was open about it. That it indicated this wasn’t going to be about games and parceling out information and tests.
“So, what you’re saying is, there wasn’t a lot of laughter,” I surmised.
“Best thing I ever did was go into the army. Best thing that ever happened to me was being in the army. My life right now couldn’t be any more different than it was the whole time I was growing up. The whole entire time, Luna.”
I was still there for the honesty.
I just hated what he was saying.
I pressed closer and whispered, “Baby.”
“Yeah, it sucked,” he agreed matter-of-factly. “So, I can say that a beautiful woman with curly hair and dancing eyes and fierce friendships, who’s funny as all fuck…no. This is not a mistake. This isn’t a one-off. This is happening.”
I waited for him to ask me if I was on board with that, but he didn’t.
Which was when I started laughing.
“What’s funny?” he asked, sounding mildly miffed and all kinds of cute.
“You’re lucky I agree with you,” I did not lie. “But my decision is based mostly on the fact you really know what to do with your dick,” I lied.
That was when he busted out laughing.
He also rolled into me.
Oh yeah.
“Ready for seconds?” he asked.
“It is Thanksgiving,” I remarked.
I felt him smile against my mouth.
Then he gave me seconds.
My alarm went off, playing “Leia’s Theme” from Star Wars.
But I was already awake, and had been for a while, lying in bed, arms curled around a special secret I kept under my pillow, my face stuffed in it, stuck in my thoughts.
Or in my memories.
Beautiful memories.
That was one of only two nights we spent in my bed (the morning after the second night, intel about Jessie’s missing brother came in, everyone showed at mine, and luckily, he’d had plans to do brunch and go to the shooting range with Cap, and the news was so big, and it came in late morning, no one paid a lot of attention to the fact Knox was there with me, but we decided from there it was his place only…until we came out).
After it was over, I’d wished I’d had more time with him in my pad. More memories of him there.
Right now, I was realizing that was crazy.
Just the two were enough.
