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I throw my arms around Rieta, my heart filled with love for my sister. “I don’t deserve you.”
“If you’ve found love, then hold on tight, no matter what,” she whispers fiercely.
Twenty minutes later, I send Laz a text message that I’m ready to go, and he replies that he’ll be right there. Before I close my phone, I edit Laz’s contact name and add a heart next to the knife emoji. The sparkly pink heart.
A few minutes later my phone buzzes.
I’m outside.
I kiss Rieta goodnight and promise to call her if I need anything, day or night, no judgment from her. I hug her fiercely, overwhelmed by gratitude that I don’t have to carry this secret alone anymore.
A surreal feeling sweeps over me as I close the front door and see Laz standing out in the street, leaning against a lamppost with his hands in his jeans pockets. The pose is relaxed, but I sense the tension in his body. His eyes don’t leave my face as I walk toward him and stop two feet away.
This is as close as I dare approach him when anyone might be watching.
We stare at each other for a long time. Our secret’s not just ours anymore. We’ve given up control and now someone else knows, and we can’t predict what happens next.
“We feel real now,” I whisper. “You and me.”
A smile hooks the corner of his mouth. “You’ve always been real to me, Bambi.” His glimmering gaze drops to my mouth, and in a husky voice he says, “Fuck, I really want to kiss you right now.”
“Me, too.”
He squeezes his eyes shut and groans. “This is torture.”
“Rieta won’t tell anyone. She’s on our side. But, Laz, please don’t...”
He frowns. “Don’t what?”
I reach out and tug the zipper of his jacket, pleading with him. “Don’t get hurt because of me.”
Laz gazes at me from beneath his lashes. “I want to be with you. Always. What do you think about that?”
My stomach erupts in a riot of butterflies and rainbows, but I force myself to stay calm. “Why?”
“Do you need me to spell it out for you?”
I am hungry for every drop of him. Every word he wants to give me. “A girl likes to know.”
He pins me with his green gaze. “Because I’m falling in love with you, and with every day that passes, I fall harder still.”
I almost throw myself into his arms. “Really? You mean that?”
“I’ll say it every day until you believe me. I’ll say it every hour if I have to.”
“I’m falling in love with you, too,” I whisper.
The two feet of space between us feels like an endless chasm.
“How are we going to be together?” I ask.
My lover just blinks slowly. “Would you do anything for us, Bambi? I want to know how far you’d go for us to be together.”
The pain of not touching him is throbbing in my chest. “Whatever it takes. Whatever we have to do. But I don’t want anyone to die,” I add quickly.
He shakes his head. “No one’s going to die.”
“Especially not you.” I know he thinks he’s going to die young, but if the Rosetti men are cursed, then we’ll break that curse together.
