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“What?” I swerved into the other lane as I looked at her. “You did?”
She couldn’t hold my stare, dropping her chin and twining her fingers together. “I couldn’t do it anymore.”
“Why?” I choked on those three little letters, heading back to the right side of the road.
“Why?” she whispered. “Do you really need to ask?”
I jerked and my heart lost all resemblance of pumping like normal. I was wired and jittery and so fucking wild, I couldn’t stay human anymore.
Spying the first patch of darkness up ahead, I stomped on the gas.
Neri looked up. “Aslan, slow down. You don’t want to be pulled over.”
“Already have. On the way to you.”
“You did?” Her mouth dropped open. “Oh my God. How did you...I mean...why didn’t they—?”
“Take me?”
She swallowed hard. “Didn’t they ask for identification?”
“I got lucky.”
Placing her hand over her heart, her voice wobbled. “God, just the thought of you being taken. I don’t think I could handle it.” A single tear rolled down her cheek. “Promise me you’ll find a way to stay here. Legally. So we don’t have to fear—”
“I’m yours, Nerida.” My gut wrenched in two as I reached across and swiped my thumb over her tear-wet cheekbone. “Here. There. Everywhere.”
I’d never spoken such truer words.
Never thought I would allow myself.
I couldn’t assure her that I’d never be deported.
I couldn’t assure her that all her fantastical plans of getting married and gaining a visa would come true.
But I was done letting all of that keep us apart.
I was done fucking fighting.
Fighting every fibre in my being that screamed my one true path was her.
Sucking in a gasp, Neri turned her head and kissed my hand before I dropped it from her gorgeous face, placed it on the gearstick, and swerved into a local park.
A deserted park.
Driving beneath palm trees and cutting through the carpark to a shadowy spot beneath an ancient banyan, I slammed on the brakes, cut the engine, and hurled myself out the door.
Every step I took was jerky and manic, and Neri sucked in another gasp as I wrenched open her door, reached over to unhook her seatbelt, then dragged her unceremoniously outside.
She tripped a little.
I steadied her.
I slammed her door, fisted her hips, and trapped her firmly against the Jeep.
Our eyes locked.
Our breathing was wild.
