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All my need turned into horror.
I could see it so fucking clearly.
See us tangled in sheets and sweat.
See us obsessed and besotted.
See us sneaking around until she turned eighteen and then marching down to the courthouse for a marriage license.
See us being denied.
See a government official knocking on the door.
See them arresting me.
See Neri breaking into sobs as I was deported.
See her breaking into pieces as I died on Turkish soil.
I shot upright, the world swimming, nausea splashing my tongue.
Fucking hell, I wanted to be sick.
I wanted to snarl and tear apart The Fluke because as much as I wanted to pretend love could conquer all, it never worked out that way.
Neri had just shown me the depth of her heart, teased me with hope of claiming that heart, and proved just how fucked I was because I’d already given her my heart in return.
She was it for me.
I no longer cared if it was a curse from being saved by her or some sort of twisted fate.
No one else would do.
No one else would ever compare.
It didn’t matter that we’d found each other so young.
It didn’t matter our circumstances or complications.
All it would take was a single message.
A single word: YES.
A thousand times yes.
A thousand fucking times to the life and love she offered me.
But...I couldn’t.
Because if I did?
If I agreed to her crazy plan and finally claimed her as mine, then I would lose her the moment the courts refused me asylum and the government got involved.
It wasn’t just my refugee status.
It wasn’t about betraying Jack and Anna.
It was the secret I hid even from myself.
