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The man on top of the roof with me.
The man who may already have a slightly unhealthy obsession with this woman.
The traitor to our team who got away.
Fuck.
She lays her hand on top of mine before I jerk it away.
My mind starts racing as my pulse riots.
She can’t be here. It’s not safe. “What are you doing here?”
“Cooper...” she pleads, but I don’t respond.
I can’t let her see how much I want her.
How much I need her like the fucking air I breathe.
I push a button on my bed, and a different nurse appears in the doorway. “Petty Officer?”
Carys’s breath catches in her throat, and I wish I could help her breathe easier. I wish I could joke with her and ask her why it took me being shot for her to figure out what mattered. Because the look on this woman’s face tells me she figured it out and finally realized just how wrong she was. But that’s not how this is gonna play out.
Not now.
It can’t.
Instead of doing any of that, I look at the older nurse. “I want this woman removed from my approved list. I don’t want her here.”
“Cooper,” my dad barks.
No matter how much I wish it was different, her words on the beach from months ago tickle my brain. I need to break us now, so I don’t destroy us later. She’ll forgive me for this when it’s over. She fucking has to.
A tear falls down Carys’s cheek and hits my hand.
I force all the warmth from my face when I look at her again. “Get out.”
A stubborn glint appears in her eyes as she crosses her arms over her chest, refusing to budge.
“Miss, I have to ask you to leave. Your presence here isn’t good for him.” I see when Carys wavers. She’d never want to hurt me, even if she already ripped out my fucking soul. What kind of fucked up karma is it that now I’m doing the same thing to her?
I close my eyes when she reaches for me and turn my head as she runs her finger along my temple. “I’ll go for now. But that doesn’t mean I’m leaving you. I love you, Cooper, and I’ll be back.”
She’s saying all the words I wanted to hear. But I can’t now.
They don’t change anything.
She takes a step away, before I stop her. “Carys...”
This beautiful girl turns her head back to me, full of hope.
“Don’t bother coming back. We’re done. You made sure of that two months ago.” The words are bitter as they leave my lips.
Hard to say.
Even more hard to watch her hear them.
A sob wrenches from the depths of her throat as she leaves my room, more broken than when she entered. And like the asshole I am, I watch her go.
