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Like she couldn’t bear my touch.
As if I disgusted her.
The reaction sliced through me with the power of a
sword. Too bad I wasn’t wearing any armor. The sharp
blade connected with flesh, and I fucking bled.
Lila faced the other direction, without saying a word,
and started walking away. I followed after her, a careful
distance behind. “Lila, where are you going? It’s so late.”
She didn’t answer.
She kept walking, walking… walking away from me. Far
and out of my reach.
I quickened my steps and followed. I finally noticed the
direction she took and realized she was walking back home.
Shit!
“Let me drive you home, please. It’s too late for us to be
walking home, and we’re too far away.” She didn’t speak.
Didn’t berate me. Didn’t acknowledge me.
In fact, I thought she was barely even breathing.
Lost in her own world, in her head… drifting away from
reality. My fingers circled around her bicep, and I tugged
her back toward me. Lila wrenched away with a hiss.
“Don’t.”
One single word. Said with so much venom and torment.
My heart hammered, a vicious beat in my rib cage. My
chest echoed with a familiar ache.
“Please,” I croaked, pleaded. I didn’t recognize my own
voice or its tone. I sounded so goddamn weak. Weak for
Lila Garcia. “Let me drive you home. I know I’m the last
person you want to see or hear right now. I understand, but
it’s complete madness to walk all the way back home, right
now, at this hour,” I tried to reason with her. “I won’t touch
you. I won’t even say a word. Fucking hell, you don’t even
need to look at me or say anything to me. Just, let me drive
you home.”
“It’s madness that you thought you could get away with
this. It’s madness that you swept my life right out from