23. Father said so!

He leaned over me, his left hand still on my right cheek, keeping my hair from coming onto my face. He licked his lips before asking his question, and my attention shifted from his penetrating eyes to his tempting mouth.

“How come you don’t know how amazing, breathtaking and irresistible you look when you close your eyes like that?” he breathed out, leaving me at a loss of words. “You seem at peace with yourself and a barely visible smile dances on your lips.”

“Is that how I look?” I asked, amazed by his observation skills. “I guess no one ever told me.”

“No one told you how attractive you are?” He furrowed his eyebrows, ending his spell over me.

I gently placed my palms on his chest to move him and pushed myself up to sit.

“Yeah, no one ever said such things to me.” I said, playing with my zipper, offended by his question when I really had to consider, he said those words to me.

“You never had a boyfriend before?” He asked, his mouth open in disbelief.

This was humiliating. What if I