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“I knew giving you a key was a mistake.”
We both laugh this time.
“Dahlia?”
“Yeah?”
“Te amo.”
Te amo:I love you.
Everything stops. My heart. My lungs. My ability to speak.
“I don’t expect you to say it back, but I didn’t want another day to go by without you hearing it.” His confession pulls at every single one of my heartstrings.
His selfless, understated kind of love is the one I spent years searching for but never found—until now.
Julian wasn’t the only one living through a ten-year blackout.
I was too.
I fight a battle against my tear ducts and lose with a sniffle.
“Don’t cry.”
“I’m not crying…” My voice wavers.
“It sounds like it to me.”
“Shut up and say it again.”
“It sounds like—”
“No. The other thing.”
“Don’t cry?”
If he were here, I’d kiss the smile right off his face.
“Forget it,” I huff.
“I love you. Good night,” he repeats before hanging up the phone.
After Julian’s confession, I can’t fall back asleep, so instead, I obsess over our conversation until I’ve gone over it a hundred times.
With every fiber of my being, I know he loves me, and it’s time I showed him I feel the same way, even if it means putting my heart on the line once more. Experiencing Julian’s love fora moment is far better than me spending a lifetime without it, wondering what might have happened had I given him a chance.
My phone pings the next day with a text from my agent asking if I am going to this Saturday’s party.
ME
What party?
She attaches a photo of the Creswells’ fifth annual postproduction party.
JAMIE
I thought that’s why you wanted to meet with Archer this week as opposed to next.
