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“After hearing all this, I want itout in his voice “This is you Your life Hearing all this doesn’t make me want to run, it o”

Uncontrollable tears rushed down her cheeks, and his face becao?”

“I would say it’s about tihtingsome space between them “Now a bit of the truth is finally out in the open I feel better Do you?”

Did she?

She wasn’t sure

Kyler had been nothing but cos fros she should have told him She felt foolish He understood her, probably e her He didn’t get angry He simply cared for her unconditionally

She cupped his face, feeling the scruff froood to me?”

“Because you deserve it, Ella”

Guilt and shame led her to say, “I’m sorry I kept all this from you I should have told you”

“I’m sorry that I learned about it in the manner I had, too But now I know and you know that I don’t care” He slid his fingers across her face to grasp her hair, and then he dropped a hard and passionate kiss upon her lips Tension lay in the fir When he broke the kiss, he added with a devilish smile, “Noe can move on, yes?”

“Yes”

“Don’t hide from me,” he added with a firm voice “All of this is your history Maybe painful history But it’s all of what , could possibly keep me away now” Then he sealed his mouth over hers and briskly ended the conversation

She kissed him back with equal fervor, a, how confident he was Soht be threatened by Rory, but beyond all the secrets, his only focus was her

In that truth, she lost herself

He wrapped his strong fingers around her cheeks as his tongue explored her mouth The passion was fever-pitched The unconditional love meant more than his heated kisses