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“Talk to me.”
I kept walking, not wanting to turn and not knowing where we were in the
building. An empty hallway somewhere.
“Catalina, would you stop fucking running? Please.”
My legs came to a sudden halt, my eyes closed. I heard—sensed because
that was how it worked now; I could feel the warmth of his body, crave it—
Aaron walk around me, and when I opened them back up, I was welcomed by
an angry, miserable man.
“Don’t do this. You hear me?” His voice didn’t crack or waver. “Don’t
you even think of it. I won’t let you quit.”
God, he knew me so fucking well. Better than I did myself because his
words only solidified what had been bubbling inside of me in the last few
minutes.
But I was furious, so mad at the world and at myself. “Easy for you to
say,” I snapped. Unfairly. But Gerald’s poison was eating away at my skin.
Blackening everything in its way. “I’m the one whoring out anyway, right?
You’ll brush it off and move on.”
He blinked, his features contorting with outrage and pain. “Easy for me to
say? I’ll brush it off?” he hissed. “You think it was easy for me not to break
his face on the spot? Maybe fuck up his mouth enough, so he couldn’t utter a
word for a few weeks? Not to fucking end him for being a worthless pig?”
I believed Aaron would have done that. I knew he would have. And
that… dissipated my anger, giving way to only anguish. How could I ever
have anything for him that wasn’t adoration?
“I won’t let you do any of that,” I whispered. “He’s not worth the trouble
you’d get into.”
“But you are. You are worth all that trouble. You are worth walking
through a fucking fire. Don’t you see that?” He exhaled roughly through his
nose, his hand coming to my cheek, making me lean on his touch on pure
instinct. “Whatever shit Daniel put in your head about you not being worth
fighting for is wrong. Love is worth fighting for. And I am not him, Lina.
This is not the past either.”
I shook my head, but his palm held on to my face harder.
“When there’s a rock on the way and you fall, I tumble down with you.
We fight our way up together.”
“It’s not that easy, Aaron.” I wished it were. I wanted so bad for the
world to be that goddamn easy. “Those are just idealistic, beautiful words. At