Chapter 158

“Continue. What do you expect to feel for someone with whom you’d like to spend the rest of your life?”

“Wellllll…It would be more than a passing affection.”

“You mean love?”

A weird warm and cool feeling crawled over his scalp and down his neck. Took Dean a minute to recognise it as embarrassment. “Yes,” he said, trying not to make the word sound tight. “Someone I loved. Someone I shared things in common with. A person to…laugh with.” He hadn’t considered that important, but it was.

“Good sex?”

He grinned. “One would hope. Someone with whom I felt comfortable. I’d want to be myself, to relax.” He meant in everything he wanted to do in relation to sex but didn’t want to elaborate.

“And what would you seek to do for this person?”

“All the things you said. Taking care of. Loving.”

“Fulfilling this person’s needs?”

“Yes.” He became wary.

“Would you expect to look elsewhere if you found such a person?”

“Of course not.”