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Dragging out the source.
“Because it hurt you.”
His hand stalls in my hair. “That’s the only reason?”
“What other reason do you need? Isn’t that enough?”
“No, because if you don’t regret it for you, I’m sure as hell not going to let you regret it for me.”
“Sebastian—”
“You wanted it, Novalee. It hurts, fuck, it hurts, but your dishonesty would hurt more. I don’t want you to keep things from me, and if it means accepting that you want another man, then I’ll accept it.”
“I don’t want another man.” My voice is low, final with absolute truth.
He tilts my chin up, his fingers gentle. “Your body does.”
I open my mouth to protest, except I can’t. “But my heart only wants you. Sebastian…you’re the one I think about when I wake up in the morning, the one who makes me smile through the day, the only one who fills my dreams.”
“What if it’s not enough? What if I’m not enough?”
“You are. You’re everything to me.”
“But your body isn’t mine alone, and it never will be. I’m doing my best to come to terms with that, but I’m fucking scared, Novalee. So fucking scared that I’m going to lose you.” He cradles my cheeks, and in the shadow of the midnight hour, I feel the intensity of his turmoil. “Tate, Vance, Ford…they call to your body, but we both know who’s had a piece of your heart from the moment he first touched you.”
A sob bubbles up in my throat. “It’s you. It’s only you.”
“I want so badly to believe that, and that’s why I’m going to forgive whatever I need to forgive, because losing you would kill me.”
“Sebastian,” I choke.
He silences anything else I might have said with a fierce kiss that ends too soon.
“Get some sleep, princess. Tomorrow is going to be a life-changing day for you, and I want you to enjoy every moment.”
I settle into the warmth of his arms, but I can’t shake the feeling that the worst is yet to come.
