#Chapter232
/"I want you. That’s all there is to it. I want to show you that you don’t have to fear me and maybe prove you can trust me./" Alexi gets straight to the point, lifting my hand into his and slides his fingers between mine to hold me tenderly. I stare at our entwined digits, feeling his heat flow into my cold, smaller one and gaze at it, disconnected. The space around me is surreal as though I’m dreaming. I should lie down. I’m verging on passing out at this rate.
/"I didn’t know what love was, what was staring me in the face. I haven’t exactly had anything to compare it to./" Alexi sounds incredibly young once more, flitting between his normal cocky self and these glimpses of an unsure teen that are throwing me off. This is a side I doubt anyone ever sees in him and yet it's softening me to him a little.
