Letting My Brother's Best Friend Take My V-Card

PART 5 CHAPTER 192

LUKE

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"Fuck." I spat as 1 pushed past Francesca. I was a fucking idiot for just standing there. What the hell was wrong with me? I took the stairs two at a time, my heart racing with desperation. I needed to catch her. Needed to see her one last time before it was too late. The imag

As I reached the lobby, I spotted her just as she stepped out of the elevator. She looked so small. "Jessica!" I said her name softly at first, but she heard me and took a step closer. She froze, refusing to turn around.

It felt like the ground had fallen away beneath me. I could hardly breathe.

Without thinking, I extended my arm and pulled her to me, feeling the warmth of her body press against mine. My instincts overpowered everything else in that moment

my need to hold her and feel that she

not just a fleeting memory. "Jess," I whispered, my voice breaking. "I missed

nights dreaming of this moment, and yet now, with her so close, I felt desperate. How

hung between us, weighed down by unspoken truths. I searched her face for some flicker of hope, but the shadows seemed to deepen in her eyes. "I get it..." she finally said, breaking the

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she took a deep breath, gently peeling

you, Luke. So,

it's my decision not

was letting me

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there, paralyzed, as she took a step forward, and then another, until she was outside of my building, staring up

woman I loved, was stepping out of my life for good, giving me a chance at family-to be a good father, to right

Wrong.

situation wrapped around me like a vice. I was the one who