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Mythat drewinto a smile that looks both cute and inexplicably sexy Then he pushes off from the wall, steps into me, and cups h and feel so different now that I’ve felt another’s

"All of that shit I said and everything we’ve been fighting about, that’s notthis?"

"A long time," I reply hoarsely

"Year and a half," he clarifies, ot roots in this You’re the onna tear us apart, baby No fucking way"

My stomach drops

"Baby," CJ moans when I lean over and suck him intoas tears build behind ht ere broken up," I whisper with a shaky voice

He gives me a look like he understands, but he doesn’t He can’t

"Coainst hi one hand on the back of my head and the other low on my back He drops his face beside mine "I’m sorry I’m so sorry, baby I didn’tmy hair

Sobs vibrate in my throat and rattle inside my chest My tears soak into his shirt as ar as another’s co me away

I can’t hold Richard back I can’t tell him what I’ve done

And when he asks if I love hiainst my ear, I can’t lie and tell him I don’t

Like he said, we have roots in this

I’ve only ever loved one man outside of my family And Richard is it He’s o of your first

So I nod, not being able to say the words out loud, but instead, giving hirips the back of s his other hand between us to lift my chin, then he lowers his mouth to mine and kisses ue and with lips that are familiar, and I force myself to kiss hi And when it feels off and not right, I grow determined and slide my hands to his neck to pull hiainst his, and go for it

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