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“Mads?”
“Don’t.” Her lips twist into a tight line.
I’m still inside her and she can’t stand to look at me.
“Don’t do this. Not again. You said you want this.” Despair creeps into my voice as she slips further away. The wall behind her eyes is going back up and I can’t do a fucking thing to stop it. “You said you wantus.”
“Not like this,” she cries. “Not like this.”
She pushes my chest. As much as I want to fight against it, keep her beneath me so she talks to me, I can’t. But sliding free of her body and watching as she scrambles away and runs to her drawers to grab a T-shirt is like watching a horrific scene play out in front of me. One I should have known was coming, should have prevented.
One that was always going to be inevitable, no matter how much I wish it weren’t.
“What does it matter?” I struggle not to shout as I turn to face her, naked. I get up from the bed and stride toward her. “I’m never going to marry her. I told you that. I don’t love her.”
“You’ll lose everything.” Her eyes shine as they fill with tears.
She retreats as I step closer.
“You’re killing me, Mads,” I whisper, staring at her as a tear breaks free and rolls down her cheek. “I want to be with you.”
“We can’t.”
I can barely hear her because her voice is so quiet.
“We can.”
“We were never meant to be.”
“Stop.”
“No.”
A second tear joins her first as she drops her chin to her chest. Her dark curls flow around her shoulders, one falling over her cheek. I reach forward to brush it away, and she flinches. The tiny movement makes my heart crack down the center.
“How can you say that? You and I make more sense than anything. Nothing feels this good if it isn’t right. And if you’re worried about Drew, don’t be. He wants you to be happy. He’ll accept it because I’ll treat you like a fucking Goddess, Mads.”
She makes a small, muffled sound and it’s like nails are clawing at my chest, tearing their way to my heart as she gives in and cries with shaking shoulders.
“That’s not what worries me. It’s… We were never meant to happen, Logan. You know that.”
“That’s your head talking, Mads. And it’s wrong. You’re hearing it. But are you listening? To what’s in here?” I place my palm over her chest.
“It’s not real,” she utters. But she doesn’t move away from my touch.
“It’s never been more fucking real.”How can she not see?
“With me, you’d have nothing. The business, the—”
“I don’t care.”
“You should. You’re Logan Rich.”
“And you know what? Since getting back from Italy, I’ve never felt so fucking poor. All these days and nights without you, fighting so hard to keep one thing, while knowing I’m losing another.”
“With me, you’d lose it all. You’d be financially ruined.”
“You think money matters to me more than you?”
