Do you wish to know why I avoided you? Why I couldn’t bear to spend another night beside you?"
Her lips fell from the side of my neck, her nose scraping against the stubble on my jaw as she looked up at me. The burning embers in the depths of her eyes lit up the room, and my entire world. She nodded once, her hand still lightly resting against my face.
"Because I could not lie there, close to you, and not wish to be inside you."