Hideaway

He slowly approached me, staring hard. “Love is pain, Nik,” he told me. “It’s never felt good.”

“So, you do like me then?”

I smiled at her joke. Little shit.

“Yeah,” I told her. “I like you a lot.”

A lot.

I wanted to show her the world

Rika is my earliest memory, and I’ve loved her forever. The sun rises with her. It always has. And everything we do, we do together. Everything.”

“You don’t know what you’re doing to me,” Kai choked

You make me feel driven. You make me hungry and on fire and wanting to slow down time instead of wanting to rush through it. It’s you I look for when I walk in the doors in the morning.

“No matter how you cover yourself, it’s never enough. You’re beautiful.”

He tasted like everything I’d ever need.

His lips touched my skin, and my eyelids fluttered. He was the best feeling in the world.

His presence—the anticipation—was a weight on my chest. God, he was beautiful.