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“How can it not be my problem? You’re in this situation because of me.”
“No, I’m not.”
“You traded your port for me…”
“Which was my choice, not yours.”
She closes her eyes and releases a slow breath. “What if…” Her eyes flash open, and she hesitates, her lips parted around her next words. “What if I were to…go away for a little while?”
Tension cuts through the car and Carlos clears his throat uncomfortably. “No.”
“Rafe, it wouldn’t be forever. You need to handle this, and me being here isn’t helping. If I go, you have no weakness, right?”
“I said no.”
Her small hand slides over my cheek, and she pulls my face to hers. “This is exactly why I should go—because you don’t want me to.”
I fist her hair and pull her closer, inhaling the sweet scent of her, basking in her inherent warmth that heats me to my very soul. She grounds me. I feel like I could take on the world with her at my side. “And this is exactly why you shouldn’t. Just let me keep you, okay?”
She sighs, scratching her nails over the stubble of my jaw. “We’re going to crash and burn, Rafe.”
“Maybe.” At this point, I’m not sure I care as long as I have her. It’s hard to remember that there are other people I have loyalty to; that I can’t just fuck it all because I have her. I want to though. I want to fucking take her as far away from this as I can and never look back. But we can’t deny who or what we are.
