Chapter 94
“Uh,” he acknowledged. “I missed you,” he added in a low voice. Lone Eagle bristled beside me. “Don’t get all stiff-legged,” Cut snapped. “I am telling a friend how I missed his friendship and wise counsel.”
That night when Lone Eagle asked if I still loved Cut Hand, I replied honestly. “I will always love him. But I have grown and changed. I do not love him in the same way. You need not fear him or any other man,” I added, laying a hand on his smooth chest. “I am yours and yours alone for as long as you want me. I ask only one thing. When you are finished with me, tell me. Do not go slinking off to other beds and crawl back to mine.”
“I have not done that to you,” he responded indignantly. “I told you, Billy. I love you. And my words are true. You said them back to me, and I believe them true as well. I have shown you my love the only way I know. Is that not enough?”