Chapter 252

Chapter 252

And then there was you. You with your eyes so full of sadness it felt like looking into a mirror. You scared the shit out of me, Alina.

Because I knew that it would never be fucking with you.

It would always be making love to you.

If I let myself have even a taste, I would never be able to walk away. If you only wanted me for a little while, for a way to escape whatever haunted you, it would have destroyed me.

That's why I waited, why I needed you to say it first. Because I couldn't survive giving another piece of myself to someone who didn't want to keep it, who didn't deserve it, who I didn't want to give it to.

I haven't been with anyone, not like I've been with you, since the hospital. I didn't think I ever would be again.

But everything in my head, all the control I have over my heart and my actions, falls apart in the face of you.

You're it for me. I don't want anyone else. I don't even want to think about another life, another body, another soul against mine that isn't yours.

again. You made me feel wanted, not because

my

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the letter and give myself a second to

her cup of coffee on the table and looks at me with a small

"Everything okay?"

my head, laughing. “You ask me that every

shrugs. "They always have

my room, but I had been struggling with some extra homesickness. I decided to read the letter during breakfast with Elena

air to calm my voice before I

and I look at her incredulously. She

sees my face. "You can't be

"I am."

last very long. Maybe right now, he's the anchor, the

her, nodding along, though I don't truly grasp the meaning of

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