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“Nothing” She hated her tears and cursed the tremor inside “I’m sorry”
Eainst her head “Don’t be” He hesitated, and then his voice softened “I didn’t realize bringing you here would upset you”
“No, it’s not that I’uilt over how et what it’s like to be around fa tears”
“It’s okay to be emotional” He pressed a kiss to the top of her head “I should have known this would be hard for you That’s my fault”
“No No It’s fine Really” Her voice hitched as she gripped the back of his T-shirt, holding him close “It’s just me I haven’t been around people like this in a while I’m a basket case”
Leaning away, he gave her a firaze reached into the depths of her soul, touching places that no one had touched before hith she wanted to drown in “You’re not alone anymore, Ella”
Sobbing tears rushed along her face, tears she didn’t try to control So long she had felt alone So long she had fought against the world that seeainst her Now it seeiven her a second chance And thiswithout ever asking for so in return A man who had sier alone?”
Warlow from the inside out, as he slowly shook his head “This life This fa the tears off her cheeks, he added with a tender voice, “Do you understand that, Ella? My life, it belongs to you now”
She looked up into his potent expression offering protection, and she couldn’t run anys Not from how special this was between them No walls could possibly stand in comparison to the care that Kyler offered To the love she felt around hiht down to it, she believed everything Kyler told her, and she trusted hiainst where fate had led her anymore … into the arms of this man “Promise?”
He cupped her face, bringing his gaze in direct line with hers “Promise”
Chapter Fifteen
“Nervous?”
Ella spun around to Presley standing at the doorway of the bathroo pretty dressed in a pink corset and panties, Presley s over her folded arms
“A bit,” Ella admitted
Knoould happen tonightPerhaps she was still emotional from dinner at Kyler’s parents’ house, because today, the world see looked a little different, and she was eneral