CARMEN
“Like big in a good way,” I rushed to clarify, my eyes widening. “I don't regret any of it. You make me feel free to express myself more, and that's all so new to me that sometimes I have to remember to take my time. I guess I was avoiding it because it felt good—like really good, but it was also a lot to process, and I’ve been processing everything on my own for so long, I just—.”
Tim’s hands slid from my hips up to my arms, grounding me again before one of them tilted my chin just enough to keep my gaze on his.
“Hey,” he said quietly, “you don’t have to sprint through this. We’ve got time.”
Time.
That word settled something restless inside me.
“I don’t expect you to have everything figured out after one morning,” he continued. “Or ten. Hell, I don’t have everything figured o
