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"Motherfucker," he muttered under his breath

"It’s really not bad," I assured him It was a haven My haven

"It’s a shithole Can’t be safe for you here Hell, Scar, at any one wrong"

I’d be lying if I hadn’t wondered about the last trailer on the right They had an abnorirl who lived there Her teeththey weren’t exactly healthy She had said she lived there with her boyfriend

"I think I’h away from the one potential

He cursed again, then parked his truck outsidetrailer It’s a ca his hand that rested on h "I can afford this place It’s mine No one has bothered me here and not once have I felt unsafe" Unlike every day of rown up in

He looked down at ht with jealousy It was also in his tone

"If you et along at first But no one other than me has been here" He didn’t have to be jealous Not offor solitude Safety Security

"I don’t like hiine you don’t And I don’t like the nus they’re not invited to so they can see you" I used to not say these things to hi to hurt hih again, then ina

"OUCH!" I cried out only because that area was already sensitive fro aware he was close

"That was a fuck up I hadn’t seen you in seven months She’d been a drunken hook up I didn’t expect to coive me time to explain"

He shoved me back in the seat and covered et it through your head all I want is you The only pussy I want to fuck is yours I can’t even see their faces Not one of them You were all I could see" His mouth covered mine then, and I wrapped s Even with our clothes on, feeling hi

Not once had he claimed to love me

He never even came close to those three words

But what he had said was a lot It was close to ad it Could he not say those words? How could I live without him if he ever did? How could I be with his I swore I’d never speak of If he knew he’d see me differently That I couldn’t stand

Brent had loved me but I never wanted his love He hadn’t been Bray I hadn’t been worried about Brent’s e hiht It would always carry nighter Harder Held his own darkness It wasn’t as tangled and deep as mine He also wasn’t full of joy and wonder like Brent had been He was the one that sawThe um was on his breath and I couldn’t think of a more perfect taste in this world His mouth leftofffor air

He nodded "Probably a good idea with the neighbors you have"