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If I hadn’t betrayed them with that video.
If I wasn’t engaged to Mason.
If the twins hadn’t been abused for so long that they never learned anything else.
Would I have spent the last ten years knowing what it felt like to be free to love this man?
More importantly, if he’d had me, would he have learned how to forgive himself?
“I love you,” I whisper because it’s the only thing I know to say. The truest, most basic statement I can make.
Ezra shudders to hear it, just a quick spasm through his body before he pulls away enough to cup my face with his hands and capture my eyes with his.
“I know,” he whispers in response.
This.
This right here is the breaking point.
Step onto the field, or walk away entirely.
I choose to be strong.
“We have to stop after tonight. This has to be the last time we see each other. This needs to end, Ezra. For good.”
His eyes search mine, and I can see the argument behind them, can hear the denial and can feel the fight he’s preparing to give.
It’s right there just at the surface, a hundred thoughts swirling, an entire ocean of sorrow drowning us both.
And while I’m willing to sink, to stop kicking my feet to break the surface, he’s planning to drag me along behind him as he struggles to breathe.
It’s all right there written clearly across his expression.
“Maybe if we just-“
I press my palm to his cheek and die a small death when he leans his face into it and closes his eyes, whatever he was going to say silenced and lost.
“A few hours,” he begs. “Just twenty-four. Give us that.”
“Twenty-four hours of what? A lie?”
His eyes open, and yes. That’s exactly what he wants.
Teasing me, Ezra pulls his face away and then snaps his teeth at my hand, a charming smile stretching his lips so wide that damn dimple appears.
I can’t help but smile back.
“Give us that,” he says on a heavy breath.
Cocking a brow, I suspect he’s attempting to buy time to drag me on the battlefield.
“And what will we do in those hours? Fight? Insult each other? Accuse each other of horrible things?”
A quick shake of his head.
“Wasn’t planning on any of that.”
“Then what-“
