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A cold hand gripped my wrist tightly and Chris seethed, “How could you wish me luck when you single handedly broke my heart into little tiny pieces?”
“Chris,” I breathed.“I was trying to protect you.”
He abruptly stood, almost knocking the chair over, when he said in a sharp tone, “You were trying to protect yourself!You didn’t even calculate me into the equation.”
“Yes, yes, I did.”I pleaded.“You deserve someone that can give you a family that you want.I know you want kids.You told me.You…”
“Don’t tell me what I deserve,” he snapped again, which caused me to look around.
He was livid, and I wasn’t sure how to calm him down.
“Chris,” I put my hand on his chest, but he flinched backward.
“You broke my heart, Camila.”He glared at me with a steel grip on my wrist.“I had a dream you left me and that’s when I knew.I knew by my reaction, I wanted you to stay.Stay permanently.I tried to not spook you and tried one thing at a time, but my mom saw how smitten I was with you and forced my hand.We argued about it because I lost you, just like I dreamt that I would.Don’t stand here and tell me what I deserve.You don’t decide what I deserve.You don’t make those decisions for me, Camila.”
My head lowered because Chris was madder than I anticipated any man would be.
“Don’t get me confused with the asshole who wasn’t man enough to love you despite all else.”He pointed to himself.“I’m not him.I love you when you’re snoring and slobbering on my shirt and when you look like the princess you are.Sick, healthy, broken, or whole.The woman I fell in love with, she’s mine in every way.This bullshit.That’s not her.”Everything stopped.
I couldn’t hear the coffee machines, the birds chirping outside, people walking or even me breathing.Nothing was moving and the only people that were on earth and in the same sphere were Chris and me.
“W-what?”I whispered.
“You fucking heard me.”He snapped.
His tone caused me to snap right back.
“Do you hear yourself?I can’t have any goddamn kids.I’m barren.Like, nothing will ever cook in this oven.You want kids, don’t you?”I snatched my arm away from him.“I know you do.”
Chris let go of my wrist, but that only had him maneuvering me with my back against the wall.No one could really see us, since we were hidden in the T-shaped structure.
“So!”He snapped back.“We go and get some kids then.Do you know how many adoption agencies are looking for suitable parents?Hell, I’m adopted.I always wanted to adopt.We get some damn kids, Camila.It’s not the end of the world.We can even get a surrogate.I don’t care what we do, but you can’t leave me again.”
The tears that ran down my eyes this time weren’t from sorrow but absolute shock.I could not say one word because I was completely in another world.His words replayed in my head, over and over, and it was a moment later that I felt his soft lips on mine.
“Do you hear me?”He asked.“No more running.”
The hair from his mustache scraped across my skin but having him so close again made up for the beard burn I was sure to have later.
The kiss turned hot and heavy faster than I expected.Chris pulled back and said, “Let’s go before I take you right here.”
“Okay.”I conceded.
Nothing else in the world could have stopped me from going with this man.
Not one damn thing.
When we finally reached hisapartment, we sat on the couch and we talked.About Calvin, my group, my life and my thoughts about us.
“You do know I would have hunted your ass down, right?”Chris’ eyes leveled with mine.
My bare feet were in his lap while his strong hands massaged them.
“You don’t give me enough credit,” I replied.“I’ve been running a long time.”
“You don’t give yourself enough credit,” Chris said as he pulled me so I was straddling him.“You wouldn’t let yourself believe in us.I did.”
A tear came to my eye as I looked down on the hippie of a man.He was everything I ever wanted in man, besides the long hair, those moccasin shoes, and that beard but I wouldn’t trade him for nobody.I moved down to meet his waiting lips and let one thing lead to another.
