Crap. I should’ve told him.
“Are you a virgin?”
I tuck my breasts into my bra. It’s bad enough that we’re having this conversation. I sure as heck can’t do it with the girls hanging out.
“I’m so sorry. I should’ve told you. I wanted to tell you,” I ramble. “But it’s just not something you go around announcing, you know? And—”
“Nora.” Grayson wipes his fingers on his jeans and shakes his head.
I can’t determine if he’s in shock or pissed.
“You should’ve told me. I could’ve hurt you. And the other night…Christ, Nora, I could’ve hurt you.”
“I—I liked everything you did both nights.”
He lets out a low curse. “That was the point, but baby, I wasn’t easy on you tonight.”
He’s still calling me baby. That has to be a good sign, right?
Grayson flings his legs over the side of the bed and sits up.
Tears prick my eyes, a familiar burn crawling up my throat as I stare at his bare back.
“Are you mad at me?”
He turns toward me, his eyes wide. “What? No.”
I sigh. In my relief, a tear slips out. Grayson crawls across the bed and wipes it from my cheek.
“I’m mad at myself, but not you, Nora. Never you.”
“Why are you mad at yourself? You didn’t do anything I didn’t want you to do.”
“Maybe not, but I was about to take something from you.”
“Nothing I wasn’t willing to give. I wanted that, Grayson. Stop acting like you deflowered me. I’m still a virgin—although not for long, I hope.”
“I’m still trying to wrap my head around this,” he says.
“I’ve messed around before.”
“I really don’t want to know about other men who’ve touched you.”
I smile at that. “There have only been three, including you, and you’re the only one who’s been inside of me.”
Grayson rolls on top of me. “Now what do I do with you?”
I lift my hips. “I can think of a few things.”
“Were you saving yourself for marriage?”
“No,” I answer honestly. “I’m saving myself for someone who makes me feel special. Someone I can trust and be myself around.”
“You deserve to give it to someone who can give you the world.”
“I don’t want the world. I just want you.”
“I want you too. I want to bury myself so deep inside of you that I’ll be permanently engrained in your body.”