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Helios wanted to go berserk at the thought.
“I’m sorry,” MJ said finally, her voice thin and shaky.
He forced himself to speak. “It’s fine. It happened. It’s all over – done with. We can forget about it—”
She shook her head even though he couldn’t see her. “I can’t forget about it. It was my fault.” She choked on another sob. “I never wanted to be that kind of woman, you know? I always thought I’d fall in love with just one guy, marry him, and live happily ever after. I kinda thought...I always thought it would be you.” She forced herself to laugh. “Silly, right?”
“It’s not silly,” Helios said painfully. “I think it’s sweet.”
She laughed and cried. “You’re not even supposed to know what the word ‘sweet’ means, President.”
He flinched. “Don’t call me that.”
She said miserably, “I don’t think I have the right to call you anything else but that. Before, all I had to be proud of was that I could always be only yours. But not...now...not after that.”
Helios paled, realizing where their conversation was heading. “I just told you it’s okay with me,” he gritted out, trying not to let his panic show.
“But it’s not okay with me,” she cried out. “You are Helios Andreadis, and you really do deserve someone better than me. I just can’t help but think that when we’re together, I only keep dragging you down and you...you used to do the same to me.” It hurt, God it hurt to say such words to him when she knew he had changed, but she had to say them. She needed Helios to realize what the days apart from him had made her realize.
What he told her wasn’t true.
They werenevermeant to be, and they were both more fucked up when they were together.
She whispered, “Please don’t call me anymore.”
“I’llneverstop calling you,” he snarled back immediately. “I love you, MJ. Do you hear me? I fucking love you and if you think just because you realized there are other better men than me to love you, I won’t give up. Because I can be better – I can be fucking normal, I can be whatever you want me to be—”
“I’m sorry, President.”
His voice broke. “Why the fuck are you doing this to me, brat? I don’t mind suffering. I never even fucking complained. Why can’t you just let me stay in your life?”
“Goodbye.”
Chapter Twelve
“I’m so sorry this happenedto you,” Katya said glumly. “If I had known Jack would actually really fall for you, I’d never have introduced the two of you at all.” Spotting a vacant table in the cafeteria, she plunked her bag down together with her tray. Sitting down, she continued, “He’s such a playboy. I thought it would be just another game for him.”
