Mimi let out a mewl. Maybe she’d seen the movie, or maybe she was just coming to realize she’d been fighting a losing battle all this time—I wasn’t sure. He met her gaze evenly. “My intent isn’t to hurt you. I just want you to face reality so you can move on. There never would have been a ‘me and you,’ even if there was no Addison. But there is an Addison, and she’s mine in a way that no one else has ever been.”

