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Now he looks offended "What?"

"You can’t love me," I cry "You can’tyou can’tyou can’t"

I putmy head from side to side

"Why can’t I?" he barks "Why can’t I, Avery? Tell me? Did you honestly think this was just a quick fuck? That I was here siet my rocks off? Shit, what kind of man do you think I a towards hi his chest, "because I can’t breathe without you This isn’t oes; it isn’t meant to be how it feels I can’t love you, Nate, because I can never have you"

He steps forward, cupping e how this feels, Dancer"

"It hurts," I cry, tre hurts"

He pulls me into his chest and presses my cheek to his shirt I soak that shirt with tears, desperate tears filled with desperate pain I don’t want to feel like this

"I know it’s not how it’s meant to feel, but I’ you need"

"You can’t leave her You can’t and I know you can’t"

"Not right now I can’t, because she’ll end up drunk, killing herself the et her help, then I have every intention of stepping away"

"You’re just saying that," I sob "I kno this works"

"You don’t kno it fucking works," he says, reaching down and lifting my chin "You don’t kno this feels"

"I do, Nate," I croak "I know, because I feel it too"

He strokes my bottom lip "I don’t want this to have to be this way I want to wake up with you and go to sleep with you I want to show you off, and I don’t want this to be a secret I should have never started soo how it’s meant to I’m selfish, I know that--but I don’t want to stay away fro for you, in a way I’ve never fallen before Don’t walk away from me You’re the only sunshine I have left"

Oh, God