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LAURA - STILL IN THE PAST OR... DREAMS MAYBE?

I shook my head, trying to steady myself. "Josh-"

"Don't," he cut me off. "Don't say whatever bullshit excuse you've been telling yourself. Not tonight. It was a long ass flight, and I just... just listen."

I stared at him, my heart slamming against my ribs.

"I tried to let you go," he admitted, his voice rough. "I told myself you wanted this, that you were better off without me. That I was better off without you." He exhaled sharply. "But none of it was fucking true, Laura."

I swallowed hard, and my throat suddenly dried.

His eyes burned into mine. "Tell me you don't feel this."

The weight of his words settled in my chest, heavy and suffocating.

I wanted to lie.

I wanted to tell him that I had moved on, that I was happy, that he was just a ghost of something I barely remembered.

But I couldn't.

Because the truth was, standing here, with his hand wrapped around my wrist and his voice scraping against my skin like fire 0.00%

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I had never stopped feeling this.

I had never stopped feeling him.

And maybe, just maybe-.

I never would.

music pulsed around us,

a step closer, and I

skimming my jaw, tilting my

"Say it," he murmured.

my entire

you still

in

have pushed

out of his reach,

like a coward. A sudden yank was pulling me forward, and before I could stop him, his lips crashed against mine. Everything around

so badly to feel this with him,

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bad I've been living in a different country. I

contrast to the heat that still clung to my body from the club. My heart was pounding, my mind spinning-not just from the alcohol, but from him. From everything he'd said. From the way he kissed me like he was making up for every second we'd been apart. Josh stood in front of me, hands shoved deep into his

should have walked

told him that this, we,

I didn't

Not to him.

Not to myself.

said, his voice rough with regret. "I know that. I know I hurt you. And I don't expect you to just forget everything because I finally pulled my head out of my ass. But Laura..." He

words twisted something

had spent so much time pretending that Paris was enough, that this life I had built here was what I wanted.

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stuck. Life was moving forward without me, and I was standing in the middle of

want to

to be alone