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“Why couldn’t you have hated me after what I wrote?”
“I could never hate you.” I reach up to cup her cheek. “Look at me. Please look at me.”
She closes her eyes and gives a tiny shake of her head. “I can’t.”
“You can,” I urge. “The heart knows when the search is over. What’s yours telling you? Listen to it.”
“I want you to be happy.” Her lower lashes are coated in thick, wet droplets. “Ineedyou to be happy.”
“I’ll be happy when I know that you are. Now look at me, baby.”
“You need to go home, Logan,” she whispers. “Without me.”
She can’t meet my eyes. Can’t even look at me as she rips my heart to shreds.
“No. I—”
“Go!” she snaps, turning her back on me. “Get dry, get dressed, and then get back on a plane and forget you ever felt anything for me.Please.”
“So, that’s it? This is what you really want?”
She straightens her shoulders, keeping her back to me as she remains silent.
“Fucking hell. Mads, please.”
Silence.
My chest caves. Nothing I say is going to get through to her. Staring at her back makes my head spin, spots dancing in my vision.
I need to get off this yacht. I need a minute. I need…
I whirl around and stomp away, water dripping off my sodden clothes and onto the deck as I barge past a bewildered looking crew member and get off the yacht.
I storm up the wooden walkway away from the yacht.
Away from her.
I can’t chase her forever when she doesn’t want me. I want to… God, I want to. I don’t ever want to give up on us.
But she does.
It’s finally time to stop.
Chapter 38
Logan
Thelightnessinmyhead abates as my senses return.
I pat my pockets, looking for my phone. Shit, I must have lost it in the water. My pace falters. I have two choices. Go back to the yacht to ask to use one onboard. Or try to find a cab who will accept a soaking wet passenger whose world has just ended.
“Jesus,” I mutter.
“Stop!”
The sound is so faint, the breeze almost carries it away.
“Stop! Please!”
