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“I’m saying…what if we didn’t want it to be an impossibility? What if you were allowed to care for both of us the exact same amount, and you never had to choose?”
Laney lets out a limp laugh. “That would be ridiculous.”
Neither Nate nor I speak.
“Right? That would be crazy. That would be…wrong, wouldn’t it?” Panic strikes her. She volleys her gaze between the two of us, looking for someone to agree. “Wouldn’t it?”
I gulp. Now or never. I take a step forward too. “Laney, we’re trying to tell you that nothing about this is wrong. Especially…”
Say it.
“Especially when…”
Say it, Mason.
“Especially when we both love you. Why would it be so bad to love us in return?”
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LANEY
I gasp. “What?”
My legs are about to give out from underneath me.
Did Mason just say that both Nate and himloveme?
Nate takes another step forward.
I wish this bed wasn’t at my back, and I could run further.
If he gets too close, I’m going to want to fall into his arms.
“He’s right. Although I would have liked to tell her myself, Mason.” He glowers over his shoulder at Mason.
Mason rolls his eyes. “I was trying to make the point as quick as possible.”
I shake my head. “I don’t understand.”
Nate stops a foot away from me. “It’s true. I love you, Laney. And Mason loves you. And we’ve agreed that we can do it together.”
“Together? What…? How…? Together?”
That would never work. Someone would eventually end up getting hurt. And the last thing I want to do is hurtthem. That’s why I left the note. So things could end before they got too deep. Even if they are already too deep for me.
Leaving that note was the hardest thing I had to do in my life. Walking away almost ripped my heart out of my chest as it begged and screamed at me to stay, to go back, to be with them.
But staying and knowing I’d eventually hurt one or both of them would have killed me.
What they are suggesting is wrong, right?
Mason steps forward. “Together. As in we can both be in relationships with you. Separately. But kind of all together? Does that make sense?”
“That’s what I’ve been saying. There’s no possibility of me being able to choose, so–”
Nate grins. “But that’s just it! You wouldn’thaveto choose.”
I shut my eyes tight. Maybe this is all a really weird dream, and it will go away if I try and wake myself up.
