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Fight like hell to fix what you’ve done wrong"

"Please, Anna," he said, their bodies still connected, "please give me another chance I know you deserve a man who hasn’t lied, cheated, and stolen I know you deserve aBut Anna, can’t you see that I’m the man who’s in love with you? I’ he can to make you happy for the rest of your life I’m so damn sorry for every mistake I’ve everyou is the worst thing I’ve ever done The stupidest Please give ht this tiiveto blow it"

"Why should I?"

She was angry now and he could feel the tension thruh muscle and bone and skin covered in sweat froave you the chance to be a real husband to me I trusted you, Cole And you still hurtyou kneould tear us apart

You ht ht me how to close down ht erous it is to trust"

Her brsts rasped across his chest as she finally let go of the anger she’d been holding inside, her hands fisted on him as if she wanted to beat him off her

"You’ve already had every chance in the world to love ive you another?"

Fight He needed to keep fighting For love

For Anna

"Because you’re brave enough to trust h to know the truth when you finally hear it"

She blinked and he could see droplets on her eyelashes "Whatever you think you saw in me, it wasn’t bravery It was stupidity"

"No, baby, no more lies"

Still hard inside her despite his climax, he shifted her closer with his hands on her hips, and heard her gasp

But she didn’t pull away

It wasn’t iveness or rede

And he’d take any little bit of hope he could get

"People have been running froot scary down to an art form

But you--you’ve never run" Her eyes widened with surprise "You’ve never let me scare you away" He still held her close, their bodies still connected in the most intiirl Not when telling Ty those things was just a stupid act, just h to fall in love Not when you’re the bravest person I’ve everin his earsit hard for him to hear himself say, "Be brave for me, sweetheart"

Chapter Twenty-Three

Anna’s fainia She’d asked theh she could see they didn’t understand why she was here at Cole’s game, they came

She didn’t understand it, either