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"I don’t"

I took a deep breath It hurt to inhale "Good And I also think you shouldn’t co pause "How could I not? The moment I sleep with you, you become a prostitute and I become your john"

I shook inside "Is this the reason, then? Why we haven’t--why you keep stopping it?"

He didn’t answer Even now, he wouldn’t answer But hadn’t we crossed into this forbidden territory already--whether or not we ever slept together?

"So on’t do this Really I’m okay with it We can end this here"

He went still, even holding his breath "It’s not your decision to make, Emilia You’re in too deep for that"

"But why--" He cut er to ed with exhaustion And I knew that noas not the ti just laid himself bare to me

So I didn’t Instead, I curled in close to hiainst his hard chest He wrapped his arms around me, rested his chin on my head and he slept

But I couldn’t Despite the fact that I was utterly exhausted, h the rae I’d just gained Adam and I would never have sex, because he believed that the minute we did, he’d becoo through with this after hearing Sabrina’s story? After hearing of the innocent who’d been forced to allow herself to be used? Used and throay, like trash I had refused to think that what I was doing was the sahtly corrected me of that notion And now the i in

Chapter Twelve

We slept in almost until noon and had a quick brunch at the breakfast bar in his kitchen Then he dropped lected blog

"Coht," he said onto keep ignoring this?"