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—Kinley—

The floodgates opened, and I let out everything I held in so deeply Tears began to strearound with er, he began to slowly caress up and down ers like he was testing himself

It was so fucking ironic because last night he touched me everywhere for hours on end

With his hands

His tongue

His lips

Yet now, it was allass in the palm of his hand he didn’t want to break

When he slid his grasp toward my shoulder and then down my back, I didn’t say one word, terrified he would stop if I did

“I love you, Kinley Troy,” he rasped in a devastated tone I’d never forget

I sucked in a breath, feeling his lided up to the side of er on h to trail soft kisses up toward my face

I couldn’t take it any longer

His words were killingme

I abruptly turned around, faintly pushing hih nothing came out

“We can’t do this anyht shouldn’t have happened It wasn’t our beginning It was our ending”

“You’re so full of shit, and you know it”

I shook ive you children”

“We can adopt, or we can get a surrogate We can still be a family”

“I can’t do that to you Please … try to understand I’ I can’t have you resenting me more than you already do”

“That’s not true”

“You know it is I’ve spent the last ten years thinking about that night and what I did to us”

“Kinley, I asked you to ht too”

“I know” I nodded “But ere young and thought our love would prevail”

“It still can All you have to do is walk out of this building with me and never look back”

I ilazed over, and his pupils dilated He leaned over again, caging me in with his arms to rest his forehead on mine

“Where’sintently into my eyes

That did it to me every time

There was so aze I knew they mirrored mine