Page 71 of A Little Bit Reckless

Her mouth touched mine and stopped all thoughts. The kiss was soft, sweet, and distinctly Bow.

It was beautifully Bow.

It was filled with everything Bow was. It was my light just as much as my undoing. It brought me completeness I could only say I felt with one other person. It was her and it was him.

It was them.

I fell into the kiss more than I should have. I let Bow direct it and take me to a place I couldn’t go. I bit her lip. “I can’t, Bow. I was a piece of shit to you, and I hate myself for it. I was shit to both of you guys and I?—”

“I forgive you,” she said, and I tasted salty wetness in our kiss as she sucked my lip into her mouth. A burn charged itself inside me. Especially when she deepened our kiss.

She forgives me.

She couldn’t. I shook my head. “You can’t. I don’t deserve it.”

I wanted it though. Idesperatelywanted her forgiveness. I wantedher, and I didn’t fight it when she pushed her fingers in my hair again. Her touch was heavenly. It was euphoric.

“I forgive you, Wells Ambrose,” she repeated against my mouth, and it unfurled something inside me I didn’t know I needed. She unleashed something, a breath, a weight. Her nose brushed mine. “Now forgive yourself, Wells.Loveyourself like I always have.”

I stopped kissing her, blinking.

“I love you, Wells,” she said, and her face was so cherry red. Her mouth pressed to mine. “I love you.”

She… loves me.

She undid me with the words, and I pressed my mouth so hard against hers.

She loves me.

It was like I was enough for her. I knew the truth of that, of course. I could never be like Rainbow. I could never be as good or as kind.

She loves me.

But I’d try. I’d try so fucking hard for her, and I knew that was selfish. And I definitely knew I’d nevereverbe worthy of her.

Or him.

I didn’t know what was happening right now. How I could be kissing her and thinking about him. The same happened when I kissed him.

Bru was right about what happened at Legacy House. I fucked him because I was so messed upabout her. It was like they both had a piece of me, and I knew they both liked each other too.

“You’re fighting her like you’re fighting me.”

Bru was right about that as well. I was fighting him and her.

Because I loved them both.

I didn’t know how it worked. But I knew how it felt.

“Why are you denying Bow and me?”

Bru’s voice was in my head as I kissed Bow deeper. As I let myself… have her. It was like he was egging me on, making me brave.

“I love you.” I pushed into Bow’s mouth, and she gasped so hard. She trembled, and I shook my head. “I know I have no right, but I fucking love you, Bow.”

I did, so fucking much.

I didn’t know what that meant for Bru and me, but something inside me told me he wanted this for me just as much as I wanted this, needed this. Something told me he’d already given me permission for this. To have this, her.