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As for Michael’s reason for bringing Nina? I nodded reluctantly because I could understand that Still, he hadn’t answered my previous question “Why didn’t you try to find me?”

Soaze heavy “I didn’t want to”

I gasped, the words slicing through me

Well, I’d asked, hadn’t I?

Feeling nu I’d feel nuo home to Harthere I could lick my wounds in peace

Before I could, Michael grabbed ainst him His tortured expression was hard to take “You leftcuts on my lips “You left me, and I was so in love with you I didn’t want to find you because you broke my heart, Dahlia You broke my fuckin’ heart”

Tears floodedand pain filled me

He’d never told me loved me

We both knee felt it—or I hoped, at least—but there had never been a right time to confess it

Until now, I guess

“I blaet that? I blame you for this empty life you left me with”

“Stop,” I deet sucked into another vortex of unrelenting guilt

“Why should I stop?” he said, drawing me closer “I don’t want to stop until you’re out of et you out of me, huh? I want you out”

“Then let o,” I whispered

His grip onelse as he watched my tears fall “There could be another way”