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Guilt tries to consume hter’s na to be like toht when she returns home?

“What is it about, then?” I say “What did you want to tell me?”

She aze for a brief instant, but ti hours as we stare into each other We seeht two people could say to each other simply with just a look

It’s goddaical, that’s what it is, and I don’t even care if that sounds crazy

I want to have your babies, her eyes blaze I want to be with you forever I want you to own me

And ht back, Good, because I already own you, Sparkplug I owned you the second I laid eyes on you, you beautiful fucking goddess

She sighs and then tosses her hands up

“You ht not feel the same when I tell you”

I grab her shoulders and pull her to htly, closely

“Let e of that,” I tell her

She leans back, confident that I’ll hold her – which I alill – and then a shadow of pain flashes across her face

“I’row tense againston my hips

My heart drops and the phrase too good to be true shatters into asm shattered into me, only this impact is of a wholly different effect

I can hear his words already, what he’s going to say next, roaring malformed in my mind

He’ll say, “Jesus Christ, Sadie, why the fuck didn’t you tell ht that was just going to be okay? You thought I wouldn’t have anything to say about that? You thought I wouldn’t care? This changes everything It oddamn impossible”

I find h for one last tiainst mine, because on some level I know I never should’ve been able to be this close to a man like Saul anyway

“Fuck,” he whispers, voice deep

“I know,” I say, flying away from him when I hear the heavy resentht? I shouldn’t have gotten your hopes up”