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"You’re ain fiercely "Not his, not anyone else’s You can try and pretend you don’t feel it, but you do You’ll always be , and I knoith a terrible clarity, that it’s true

I belong to hi through ht I’ve always been his If he picked ht now and hauled me upstairs to bed, I wouldn’t resist for one second I would be his, completely, to hell with Daniel and every promise I’ve made

But what does thatkiss on , clutching on for dear life as I watch hihts cutting through the night He backs up and drives away, the lights fading as he disappears into the trees

I’ with the imprint of his hands; lips swollen frouilty and confused and alone than I ever have before

What the hell a to do now?

CHAPTER SIX

I spend another night not sleeping, restlessly dis can erase the ering there in the shadows of the living rooet the irabbedlow and sexy in my ear

Mine

I don’t knohat to think He was the one who ended things! He was the one who shattered o And now, it’s like he wants ht when I’m not his to take

I’m so confused, I can’t take it By the ti back to Charlotte as fast as my Camaro will take me I don’t even wait around to meet Lacey’s walk of shame, I just leave her a scribbled note on the counter, throw et the hell out of town

I half expect Emerson to find me and stop n is receding in h of relief My hands are clenched tight around the steering wheel, and I flex the to relax I know it’s a coward’s way out, to just turn and run, but I don’t knohat else I can do I can’t stay in that town a er, not when all it takes is one look fro; when all it takes is one touch for me to throw every promise out the

To coe I pick it up to check the screen

Jules, we need to talk CALL ME

I’ over, this is crazy

Where r u? Ur not here Calltoo I don’t knohere he got the nuh Lacey, maybe--but it doesn’t ht now The phone buzzes again in my hand, and I’m about to hit ‘decline call’, when I see the caller ID is Lacey

I pick up "Hey"