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"And now that you’re a daredevil extraordinaire?"

"There are still plenty of things that scare ers threaded through the hair at the base ofme to look up at him He looked into my eyes for what seemed like an eternity "You You scare the shit out offor his "I’ On paper you’re everything I shouldn’t etI see, the only one I want, and that’s by far the scariest thought I’ve ever had"

"I’m just me"

His hand slid until his thu and don’t even see it You’re s, and so beautiful that you s like that," I whispered,to build any wall around my heart while it did its best to reach for Paxton

"Things like the truth?"

"Things that make me hat I can’t have"

"You can havebut honesty in his eyes--and God, I wanted to believe it I wanted to be his, even if it was only for this moment, and not just physically

He lifted his chin overht"

Despite the overpowering exhaustion I kneas the result of stress, our day, the nightashed "For you to give me a second chance"

My eyebrows puckered, butwrong"

"It’s not for now It’s for later"

"That’s not necessary," I slurred as I drifted off, but just before I was pulled under, I heard the faintest whisper against my forehead

"It will be"

Chapter Sixteen

Leah

Istanbul