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“I’m so fucking sorry,” he croaked out, his fingers pressing into my cheek and tangling in my hair. His voice had broken, the deep tone shattered like glass. His forehead touched mine. “I’m so fucking sorry, baby. What I did to you…”
I croaked out a sound now, my eyes so damn cloudy. I could barely see through the tears threatening to fall.
But for some reason, I allowed this to happen. I let Wolf touch me and guide me to look up at him. His big hands caged my face, his dark eyes glassy and expression tortured. He shook his head. “I know I have no right. I know I have no right…”
He kept saying it. Over and over, he kept saying this, and I knew I’d hear those words for a long time. They’d be in my memories, deep and embedded for a lifetime.
I lost them when Wolf sealed our lips, when we both gasped, and I let him breathe out more words.
“I’m so sorry,” he said, his tongue in my mouth. His forehead rubbed gently against mine. “I hate this. What I’m doing to you. What I did to us…”
The dam broke then. A rush of tears left my eyes in a single breath and coated both my cheeks and Wolf’s.
“I need you,” he rasped, his thumbs wiping away the hot trails. “I need you with everything in me, and I’m sorry. I’m so damn sorry, Fawn.”
He was sorry.
I wasn’t the only one finding it hard to breathe. Wolf was kissing me against the cabin wall, and for some reason, I wasn’t stopping him.
Please, stop.
“Forgive me,” he moved over my lips, and something inside me snapped. It snapped on, snapped to life. He could be as sorry as he wanted. He could need me too, but what about my need? I’d needed him once. I’d needed him so bad.
Wolf had ripped what we had away from us. He’d torn me in half, and I didn’t forgive him, no.
I didn’t know if I ever could.
Wolf had to have felt the sudden struggle in our kiss, me fighting both him and myself. There was a time when I’d wanted nothing more than for him to admit the truth about his feelings, but that time was long gone.
I knew that in my heart when I pushed him off me, breathless, and he was too. His big chest rose and fell with heavy breaths, and when he started to approach me, I raised a shaky hand.
“No.” The single word left my lips strained, weak. I was so fucked up right now, and that was his fault. I blinked down more tears. “No.”
I didn’t know what I was saying no to exactly. I just knew this wasn’t going to happen.
It couldn’t happen.
Even still, I wasn’t brave enough to see Wolf’s response. I cut around him, but quickly discovered the pair of us weren’t alone. Bru was there with his grocery bags, and he was the peak of a Legacy arrow. Dorian Prinze and Sloane were right behind him. They were in the distance, but they were there, and Bow, Thatcher, and Wells were directly behind them. It was like they’d all stopped at different points of their journeys, and I had no idea how long they’d been there. Maybe they’d all just gotten here.
Maybe they’d all been here the whole time.
Regardless, immediate shame hit. Shame that I’d allowed what happened to go on for as long as it had before cutting Wolf off. He worked around seeing my focus was on something else, and as soon as he saw his family, his attention transferred back to me. He took a step toward me, but Bru did as well. He frowned at Wolf and started to come in my direction, but I shook my head.
Bru stopped then, his eyes sad. It was in his nature to want to help me, save me, but he couldn’t this time.
I didn’t want him to.
This time, I was saving myself, and I did that when I walked away from the group on my own. I didn’t know where I was headed, but I had a feeling it was far away from South Carolina.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Ares
“So, Brielle and I put Fawn on a plane back home this morning,” my dad said, and I sat up. Bru did too. We exchanged a glance, but he appeared just as surprised by this news.
She left.
I knew this was a possibility. Fawn hadn’t been here when all us kids got back to the Reeds’. We stayed to clean up the cabin and give the owner back his keys.
