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We have it Che my skin I feel his eyes onnext tojust like esture and I shiver The wind is like ice and it bites ats and I want to yell at him to back off

But I don’t

“Sort of,” I answer

He chuckles “If I had a jacket, I’d entleman Or like a kind, attentive boyfriend I don’t want any of these…lies What I need is reality Cold, hard facts I need to re inhim to ensure temporary financial stability for my pitiful little faet it

“We should probably go inside,” I start to stay but he touches o back in there,” he says, his voice so low, I almost don’t hear him “I can’t face the happen in there that I missed? He doesn’t seem too upset, but I don’t know hiure it’s best to re either

But he does wrap his arm around my shoulders and haulht this, especially with the prouidemy hands on his hard, warm chest His hands settle at the s, pressed against hi He’s trapped ainst everything I thought and worried over onlyme

When it co But he see At least we’re in this screwed uphappen in there?” I ask, curiosity killing me I had to know

“I don’t want to talk about it”

I risk glancing up at hiht his jaw is “Well, if you ever do want to talk, I’lances down at me There’s such despair in his eyes, my chest aches for him This perfect, beautiful boy is not so perfect after all “You wouldn’t understand”

I laugh, though I’ets that “I’d understand more than you think”

“If I told you the truth, you’d hate me” His voice is harsh, his expression pained “I hate me for what I’ve done”