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This.
I forgot the sheer fucking magnitude of this woman’s soul. The way it bleeds into me without question and makes me feel alive.
Reluctantly, I inch back, holding her face in my hands. I smooth away her hair to look at her, a rueful smile teasing my mouth before I lose it again. She stares up at me, brown eyes big and wide.
She looks as lost as I feel.
I drop my lips to her forehead, lingering them there for a beat, not ready to let her go. “You are life, personified.”
Scarlet stands with her arms bereft as I pull away from her, turning and walking out of the door.
Scarlet
Mum,
I lied before. I did fall in love with him.
And I think he needs me.
I’m not done saving myself yet, but I really think he needs me.
Soon,
Scarlet.
THIRTY
Lance
“It’s my birthday, Lowell. Of course you’re fucking coming.” Elliot falls heavy onto Mason’s office sofa, his hands running over the front of his suit.
“You think it’s a good idea both me and—”
“Nina being there.” I smile on the inside as Elliot tuts. He’s on one today. “I heard the same shit from her. You’re fully grown adults—regardless of the size of your dick. We’re going out. All of us.”
Mason rolls his eyes, looking back at his screen.
“I’ll be there, Montgomery,” Charlie reassures him.
“Thank you, Charles… Sullivan?” he asks me.
“Wouldn’t miss it.” I sigh, agreeing, despite the fact I can think of a million reasons not to go.
Elliot pops his brows at Mason, waiting.
“I’m happy for you, mate. You’ve got Mr Fucking Smiley”—he points at me—“and the guy who can’t have sex unless he pays for it.”
“Fuck,” I mutter, chuckling under my breath.
Mason’s mouth curls up in a grin, his eyes falling to Charlie, who’s shaking his head with a smirk on his face.
“On a serious note, it’s good to see you here, Sullivan. You’ve been a miserable prick for weeks,” he tells me, nodding his head.
“Yeah, whatever. Asshole.”
Turning up seemed like the least I could do, all things considered. I paid the last of what my sister stole from Mason’s company back last week, and I’m pretty sure it’s the only reason I can stand here now and look at him in the eye.
“Come to mine before. We can toast to another year of fuckery,” Elliot tells us.
