Revealing Us

Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you've been through. But don't let that mislead you. You wouldn't be here if I planned on protecting you from me.

The past is a part of you and us. You can store it away someplace different, but you can't make it go away. And you can't even resolve it until you, we, face it.

We attack the problems. They don't attack us.

My head drops back and I have a fleeting out-of-body moment where I see myself in the window, my hands tied above my head with my legs wrapped around the neck of Chris Merit, while he does delicious things to my body.

Focus on what you can control... Kow what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't.

They don’t get to tell you who I am.” His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. “I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it.” A muscle in his jaw flexes. “Understand?

I look deep into his eyes and find myself wrapped in the familiar connection we share. It streams through me like moonlight on a bay, glistening through my soul.

I'll go find us a private car and driver," Chris informs me. "You stay with the bags." I purse my lips. "Yes, Master." He arches a brow. "Why is it that I can only get you to say that sarcastically?" "Because according to you, " I remind him, "you don't want me to call you Master." "Are you saying you would if I wanted you to?" "Absolutely not.

You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together.

I’m angry at Chris. I’m hurt. “Well, you know what I fear? This is my fear. This moment when, once again, you shut me out and I’m alone. If you were going to leave me alone, you should have walked away before now, when I still knew how to breathe without you.

You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together.” My gut clenches at the reference to the way my

Know what you can bend to your will, and don’t waste energy on what you can’t. It’ll suck you dry, like it is right now.

I think it’s the whole ‘bad boy who’s so good but destined to break your heart’ fantasy. Which doesn’t sound like much of a fantasy when you put the broken heart part in the picture, but it is. It so is.