A Yearning Beyond Years
“But I don’t care, Stacey! I don’t care about society or how old you are or the fact that you’re my lecturer. I just love you for you!”
For a moment, I just stood there, staring at him. Staring at the boy—no, not boy, the man who had just laid his heart bare in front of me to see.
His words wrapped around my heart like vines, tugging, pulling, making it ache with a longing I had tried so hard to bury.
“Noah…” I whispered, my voice trembling.
His eyes searched mine, full of hope, desperation, and something so real it made it hard to breathe. His hand was still hovering near my face, hesitant now, like he was scared to touch me again, like he was scared of what I was going to say.
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