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So as left?
But I couldn’t stand this I couldn’t take it
“I can’t ask you all,” I said, going back to it “I don’t want to leave, even if I should”
“Don’t”
“I don’t want to”
“Don’t,” he said again He rocked gently withanywhere, Trouble You’rething to do”
“I don’t knohat to do”
“You stay And you help us find a way to make it happen” He pulled back to look at me “Because the alternativethat’s not ant”
“It’s not fair for me to ask you all to only date,” I said “That’s just”
“What ere considering,” Gabriel said “This was the plan Froo We want to stay with you We weren’t interested in anyone else, which is e’re agreeing to it It isn’t about going without It’s because ant you with us We want to be with you, because of how you , we all love the shit out of you”
My lips quivered and ain, for his sake “Nathan didn’t want to Silas”
“They do,” he said “He was just here trying to kill et to you He fucked up”
“That wasn’t hi up,” I said “It was Danielle”
“He still shouldn’t have let it get that far We were just about to break it up when you walked in” He gruhed “We knew he didn’t want to do any of that They said they knew about your real et what you wanted to know And we didn’t stop hi for any of us”
I sniffed, wiping at my face “We need to find hie “We need you to get to the doctor”
“You can’t go naked,” he said “Let et stitched up Then we’ll find him”
His proy into get around what I was feeling, that I was putting those feelings on them
Everything we’d been through together, they’d do it all and more to be with me
I’d do anything for them
He nudged et up so he could as well He went to the second room, the smaller one, where there were s, one marked in pink
I opened it, spilling out the contents onto the floor to sort out The notebook I’d been using as a journal between the and other ite auto
When it was clear I was distracted fro “What’s that?”
“I was being du it to the floor It landed face open on the carpet “I riting rules for the relationshipstuff I was hearing from the others”
He picked it up, looking over the page “You only wrote one”
“I wasn’t sure what to put for the rest Kota said relationships like this get coure out the boundaries, the rules”
Gabriel’s face hardened “What does it say? I’ yet”
I shrugged “So in front of the others basically”
He dug into one of the bags and he took out a pen He wrote so belohat I’d written
When he finished, he showed it to me
Rule two: Sang’s the only one
My lower lip quivered It felt selfish
But his intense crystal gaze was steady on my face He dropped the pen and put a hand over his heart “Because I want to”
I shook, looking at what he’d written
Suddenly I dropped everything else, scooped up the pen, took the notebook from him
I scribbled out the numbers I wanted to rewrite it all but then just added belohat he’d written
Rule one: Just us
I wrote their names after that,it Si e already knew
It was just us That’s how it had to be
Just Us