Love Bet
It wasn’t desperate, or rough, or hungry with weeks of pent-up frustration.
It was slow.
Soft.
A kiss that tasted like forgiveness and hesitation, like hope and fear, like something fragile and new and terrifyingly real.
And the moment his arms tightened around me, the moment he sighed into my mouth, his entire body melting into mine like he had been waiting for this just as much as I had, I knew.
I knew.
I still loved him.
Even after everything.
Even after the lies and the heartbreak and the betrayal that had shattered me into something unrecognizable.