“What I’ve wanted since I was fifteen,” I answer. “You.” My words catch him slightly off guard and his brows furrow. “That’s the thing, Lai. You had me. I was all fucking in. But you threw that away.” “I know, but if you would just listen—“ “No,” he cuts me off. “I was willing to listen before you left. Before I woke up to find you gone. All I wanted to do back then was listen. But now? I don’t want to hear it. It’s too late, Laiken.”
