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“You are,” Nico told her. “We’ll make you see that.”
“You need to go.” But there was no conviction in her voice, and she slumped on the bed.
“We’re not going,” Liam told her. “We’re not leaving you.”
“Tonight?”
“Ever.”
“What if I opened myself up and said yes to all this. What happens when you decide you’ve had enough of me?”
“What if the reverse happens?” Liam asked. “What if I open myself up to you, and then you decide I’m too much for you?”
“That wouldn’t happen.”
“It might. But I can tell you now, I wouldn’t let you walk away. I keep what’s mine. And you’re mine, Charlotte Malone. Just like Nico is. The two of you are fucking mine.”
She sucked in a deep breath, then let it out slowly. Putting her phone down, she rubbed at her temples.
“Let us take care of you, Lottie? Please?” Nico asked. “I get this is overwhelming and way too much after the day you had. But please, just give us this small moment to show you how we feel.”
She looked so exhausted and lost as she sat there, staring at them. “I want to be alone.”
“Do you?” Liam asked. “Or have you been alone for too long?”
“I have my brothers.”
“Who you haven’t confided in. They don’t know about this, do they? About the fact that you’ve started hurting yourself again.”
“It was just twice,” she whispered.
“Don’t lie to us or yourself,” Liam said sternly. “If we hadn’t arrived when we did, what would you have done? Cut yourself?”
This was killing him. Thank fuck he’d listened to his gut. The thought of her harming herself made him want to puke.
“We can’t leave her,” Nico said.
“You don’t trust me. See? There’s no hope.”
“Trust is something that has to be earned on both sides,” Liam said. “Give us a chance to show you that you can trust us.”
“How?”
“By spending time with us. That’s the way trust is built, isn’t it?”
“I suppose so.”
“Here’s what’s going to happen. Nico is going to put our numbers into your phone. The minute you think about harming yourself, you’re going to call one of us. I don’t care what else is going on, you’re going to call us.”
“And if I don’t?”
“Then there’s going to be consequences,” he said sternly.
“You’d hurt me?”
“Fuck, you best figure out quickly that I would never hurt you because it kills me a bit inside that you think that’s a possibility.”
She closed her eyes, looking like she was in pain.
