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Jagger tightened his ar "You wouldn’t be the only one trying to figure out how to go into this, Grey I told you I’ll be there for you, and I swear I will Through every hard tih every unsure moment, I’ll be thereI just want you to be mine"

I nodded slowly, and a few tears slipped down my cheeks "I want this I know that I want you," I whispered The words were true, reaffir inin the sa I still need to ask you to be patient with me"

He smiled softly and brushed his thumb across my cheek "Don’t I would’ve waited forever for you I hadn’t been planning on telling you, and I would’ve left you here in Seattle as long as you needed if it weren’t for your brother"

My eyebrows pulled together "What did Grahaood here, and asked hoould feel if you found soet here and try to talk to you I just hadn’t kno much better you would look I’d already talked to Janie, so I knew you weren’t seeing soht I just didn’t kno to fight for you when you looked so happy"

"I told you this was because of you I haven’t changed that o to a salonand it was all with the hope that I would see you tonight"

Jagger’s signature lopsided smile crossed his face, and he looked away for a second "Yeah, I get that now I should’ve knohat Janie would do when I put her in charge"

I laughed softly and shook my head in amazement "You really came here and did all this because you were afraid I would find another guy?"

He didn’t respond, but the slight rise of one eyebrow gavefor

"No one else," I said softly "As unfair and horrible as it is for me to say it, I knoould kill me to see you with someone else I don’t knohen I fell in love with you I can’t look back and reed for me, only that it has"

"I don’t care about the when, Grey" He smiled as he leaned in and placed another deceptively soft kiss onandto his shirt "What’s next?" he breathed againstto come out of the daze of the kiss "What do you mean?"

"Are you ready to coer? Or do you not want to go back at all?"

"No, I want to go back I just didn’t kno to before It was easier to run away froht Like I told you, I’m scared But I’m ready nowI’m ready to allery had closed, I said good night to Jagger and went back with Janie and Heather to their apartotten us into Janie’s car and walked away, and with all their questions and pleas for er, I’d still been explaining everything by the tio back to his hotel with him!" Heather said in exasperation when I finished, and I shot her a look

"Uh, ould I have?"

Her eyes widened like I’d uy? And after you both declared your love and everything, how could you not want to go and explore the rest of what you’ve been , and I stared at her in shock I’d only ever been with Ben, and up until sometile for the rest of er had been hard enough; sleeping with hi I could think of yet He and I both knee had to go sloe couldn’tI couldn’t

"Grey, it’s okay! Cal deep breaths in and out," Janie said quickly as she moved in front ofuntil I’d heard her talking "I can’t yet," I et out, horrified

"I know, it’s okay It’s fine Jagger knows that too"

"Shit, Grey, I’ger knows that Fro I was just being me andwell, it was stupid I’ht about that I--God, it’s ridiculous to be scared over that, right?" I laughed, but it sounded off

"It’s not," Janie assured me "All of this is a lot, and it’s happened fast You’re totally allowed to freak out over things You ht, and you don’t have to o back to Thatch with hi happen one day at a ti the last two years, all right?"

I nodded quickly "Yeah, you’re right"