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“He’s the reason I see pixie dust,” I tell my mom.

“My touch, my kisses, they’re all yours,” I say, my lips ghosting over his ear. “Every last one of them. Yours.”

“Sounds like I must be dreaming. If I am, stay here with me, Oak?” My breath stutters out of me, Lawson’s skin warm and solid and real beneath my touch. I promise him what I know to be the absolute truth. “I’m not going anywhere.”💖

“It’s just… You have the most gorgeous eyes I’ve ever seen, Oak.” It takes me a long, long time to answer him. “You think so?” “Always have. Everything is right in the world when you’re looking at me.”♥️

I never said I was a rational man when it comes to Lawson Darling. I’ve been his in some form or another my entire life. Friends seems like an inadequate word for a person you’d travel into literal Hell for. I just pray the flames don’t consume me whole.❤️

“You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” I could have Lawson, it would seem. If I’m willing to sacrifice my heart.

The sun is low in the sky. The wind is blowing gently. If I squint, I can almost see pixies flitting on the breeze. Almost. My best friend is home. Maybe that’s magic enough for me.

A few seconds later, I hear, “Did you pack up my goddamn sex toys?” “Nothing to be ashamed about,” I call. “Sex is a perfectly healthy activity for a man your age.” “Jesus fucking Christ.”

“They never treated you the way you deserve.” My heart thumps. “And what do I deserve?” Warm brown eyes hold mine, and I wait for the blow to my chest I know is coming. It does, a second later, with one concise word. “Everything.”💖