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“I’m not sure, Dakota, but if you are? I promise I will take care of you. Protect you.” “Why?” “Because protecting you is what I was created to do.”
“Like I said, taking care of you is what I was meant to do, Dakota.”
“We each have our own lives, Ryder.” I forced it out around the tumult. His teeth ground. “You are my life, Dakota.”
“You deserve everything. Had once thought I’d be the one to give it to you.”
“Because the only person I want to touch me is you.”
“I don’t want to hurt you, Dakota.”
“You were the one person I wanted to be something different for.”
“I went after them because I couldn’t have the one woman that I wanted. Because I knew I would never be worthy of you, Dakota. Because I knew I’d never be good enough. And I’m still not, and here I stand, a fucking bastard for even thinking about touching you.”
A woman who walks into the room and every head turns, drawn to her beauty.”
“That I’m not who I want to be. Not yet. But I promise you, I’m trying to be.”
“No, Cookie, I could never forget about you.”
“Do you think I’m not in love with you?”
“I love you, Dakota. I’m gone for you. Since I was twenty-two fucking years old, I’ve been gone for you. Since you became the one thing in this world that could soothe the ache inside me. Since you became the reason to look beyond my circumstances. Since you reminded me of the good things this world might have to offer.”
“You saved me, Dakota. Saved me when I was lost. When I’d given up. And I keep trying to push you away because I know I don’t deserve you. But I can’t do that any longer. I can’t fucking deny that you are the one thing in this life that I’ve been living for. You are the light breaking the darkness inside me. And I’m begging you, please don’t walk away.”
“Because this is the way we’re supposed to be, Dakota. You were meant for me. You’re mine, Cookie, mine.”
“You weren’t even living here at your mom’s any longer, and I’d still come, just because I ached to be close to you. So I could get lost in the memories of you.”
“You’re the light breaking inside me, Dakota Cooper.
