CHAPTER 128: CONFUSION

"For the past two weeks, our sex life had been almost too much for me. It was fun and nice, and in a lot of ways, it was love, but it had ramped up dramatically."

"Because I love you," he answers quietly. "I think you're hot, it feels good, I like watching you-"

"Oh my god," I mumble, shoving him slightly, and he laughs. I feel my cheeks turn pink and I clear my throat. "You're really too much for me." I'd never been in a relationship where sex had become such a normal part of it. When I dated in high school, sex was something I did every once in a while. It wasn't anywhere near as often as Kent and I were doing it.

"You know there's nothing wrong with us, right? Couples have sex," he shrugs, and I clear my throat.

"I know there's not," I whisper. "We're so not having this conversation." I amend a second later, moving around him to get back to the fridge in search of a bell pepper.

He's not having it, though, picking me up and sitting me on the island. "Kent! Just let me."

"Why a