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unfathomable way you have made me completely yours.”
“Yours,” I repeated, my heart expanding in my chest. Lurching itself
against my rib cage. Wanting out and into Aaron’s. “I’m yours too, Aaron. So
completely yours. I have … fallen in love with you. I don’t know how it
happened, but it did. I love you.” I didn’t recognize my own voice, not with
the loud thumping in my ears. “I was so stupid to let you walk away. So, so
dumb. But I got lost in my head. I was so scared, Aaron. I didn’t want to lose
everything I had worked so hard for. To have people look at me like they had
all those years ago. To lose you, too, when you realized that I was a
complication.”
“You’d never be one.”
“I know that now, but I somehow convinced myself that letting you go
was the best thing I could do to protect myself from that happening again.” I
shook my head, pushing that dreadful emotion out of my chest. I’d tell Aaron
about Sharon and the investigation on Gerald. But now wasn’t the time.
“I’m sorry for not being here for you like I should have.”
He looked at me like he didn’t want my apologies, but I didn’t let him
talk.
“I am.” My voice wavered. “Knowing that your dad was sick and you
were all the way here, alone. Taking it all without anyone to hold you. That
he has been critical for weeks, and yet you came to Spain with me. That you
…” I trailed off, my voice now shaking. “That you would give me so fucking
much without ever asking for anything in return. It destroyed me. But I’m
here now,” I whispered, looking into his eyes.
“I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere, not because I believe that we can
somehow be together now, but because I can’t conceive of being anywhere
else but beside you.” I swallowed hard, trying to rein in every emotion
threatening to burst out. “You know that, right?” I leaned in, my lips brushing
over his. Very softly, almost tentatively. Waiting for his answer.
“I do now.” A low grunt came from his throat. His fingers tightened once
more around my wrist. The arm around my waist brought me even deeper
into his chest. “I do, Lina. And I don’t plan on letting you forget that.”
The hand that had been on my wrist trailed up my arm, his palm cupping
my face. I leaned into his touch, feeling like I could live only on Aaron’s
caresses and kisses.
“I would have come back for you, you know? I told you I wouldn’t let
you quit on us. You still owed me that four-letter word.”