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“No, no, I don’t…”
“I give you my word.” My arm is wrapped around her ribs, pinning her to the bed, feeling her body slowly soften. Only that look in her eyes turns, darkening with a chilling edge.
“I’ve had your word before, Serpent.” Her eyes narrow. “And in the end, it meant nothing.” She pushes against the arm I’ve draped over her, but I don’t waver.
Fuck… Sighing, I slide one leg over both of hers and hold her in place. I had to let her go once, and there’s no way I’m doing it again.
“It meant everything, and that’s why it hurt the way it did.” I finally speak through her attempts to push me away, her body strong, yet not strong enough for my will. And at this point, when it comes to her, my will is unmoving.
“That’s why it hurtme,” she spits.
“It hurt me too, Morrigan!” At the sound of her name falling from my tongue, she falters, her brows furrow, the look in her eyes strained with broken emotions.
We call each other made up names. We call each other everything but who we are, because our names on our lips carry a weight of a love that never was, they carry promises and shattered dreams, and… they sound like hope.
And the hardest fucking thing in this world is allowing hope to brush your soul.
Yet here I am…
“Then… Then why did you do it?!” Her voice breaks for a moment, and somehow that makes me feel a little better.
“Because I had to.”
How many times over the years have I imagined this exact moment?
How many times have I wished to find her, trap her beneath me, and tell her everything?
How many times have I almost risked it all and drove to her university?
How many times… have I been forced to give up on her, on us?
Too many. Far too many.
“Had to?!Hadto?!”
With all her strength, she shoves me enough that she slips out of bed, so much rage in her eyes that it reminds me of the night Maddox and I caught her.
The night I knew she was mine.
I jump after her and close the distance between us.
“Youhadto leave me?!” She slams her hands against my bare chest, pushing me away. Only the woman is relentless! She tries to slap me, and I block her hand.
“Youhadto tell me that you didn’t love me anymore?!” She pushes me once more.
“You didn’t fucking love me!” Her rage is filled with anguish, but I need her to shut the fuck up.
I grab her and throw her on the bed before she even realizes what’s happening.
“I never. Fucking. Stopped!” She stills, propped on her elbows, frowning. Her lips part, but she’s finally speechless, and I feel… relief.
I know what Ihadto do to distance myself from her. I know how much it fucking hurt. Because no matter how brief it was, how inexperienced, how young we were, we recognized that our souls lived in the same shadows and found their matching darkness.
“Your father forced me. He blackmailed me,” I finally admit.
“He… Wait, what?!” She slides up in bed, almost in a sitting position.
“You know very well how much the man didn’t want me with you back then. It turns out that a cop friend of his found something. A mistake, the one and only that caught the eyes of the law. Your father gave me a choice… either break up with you, or Madds goes to jail for the rest of his life.” Her eyes go wide at those words, and she clutches the sheets by her sides. “Countless times I thought of telling you about this, but I knew that there was no way we would be able to stay away from each other. We would have fucked up, we would have ruined it all, ruined Madds’ life.”
