Chapter 0126

1 flushed from his words; I didn’t take him for someone who would care about such a thing, especially not when it came to me..

“You shouldn’t be too hard on him. He’s your nephew…”

“Which makes it worse,” Gavin muttered. “He’s family and my family never raise their hand to women. It can’t go without punishment.”

I knew there was no changing his mind on this; I bit the inside of my cheek and stared down at my hands.

“He asked me to be his girlfriend,” I whispered, making Gavin tense from beside me. “And I said no. He was angry with me… he said some pretty cruel things.

“Why did you decline his offer?”

He didn’t sound accusatory, more just curious like he was trying to keep the conversation going. My heart swelled a little more thinking that maybe he did care for me… at least a little bit.

“I didn’t feel the same way about him,” I admitted. “I didn’t want to hurt him… but I didn’t like him in the same way that he liked me.”

Gavin nodded, his expression softening.

“And he got angry,” he said softly; it wasn’t a question, but I nodded anyway.

“Yes,” I confirmed. “He got angry.”

Gavin wrapped an arm around me and pulled me into his side, wrapping me with his warmth and comfort. I felt my body relaxing almost immediately and my heart eased.

the other night was a mistake, and we were going to pretend it never

“You decided that.”

my brows and looked

not what you wanted?” I asked him.

really thinking about

“And now?”

think he was going to answer my

we should be together.”

and my jaw all

“I’m sorry… what?”

Chapter 0126

“Let’s be together.”

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it twice, I still wasn’t sure if heard him correctly. I stared at him blankly, not sure what to say

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a smile, and he bent to brush a chaste kiss across my

saying let’s get married, or even mate,” he said as he kissed the bridge of my nose. “I’m saying, let’s be together. It’ll get my mother and Daisy off my back and get Ethan and Walter off yours. Meanwhile, we can scratch each other’s itches and have

suddenly understanding

to have a

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