C14

“It was no ruse. I thought kissing could cure me. It turns out kissing isn’t enough.” He grins crookedly. “But regardless, I wanted to kiss you from the first moment I saw you.”

“You could have asked.”

“Would you have let me?”

I don’t know what to reply. The answer may be no. But I remember how I’d felt when I’d first seen him. His beauty had been a knife to the heart