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She had shown up and dragged me out of the black hole I’d fallen into, but in doing so, she’d wound up taking my place.
“A real case? What are you studying?” she asked. She looked surprised, even a little disconcerted. “Law,” I said. She seemed impressed. “Does that surprise you?” I was putting her in a corner with that question, and I enjoyed it. Her attitude changed, and she looked down her nose at me. “It does, honestly. I thought that was a major that required having a brain.”
I ran a finger carefully over that tattoo, so tiny compared to mine, and felt how both of us got goose bumps. Noah twitched unconsciously, and I felt something strange, uncomfortable, in the pit of my stomach.
“Or else that knot might not be strong enough to hold you.” What did he know about my tattoo or about how strong I was?
“I’ve been holding back with you… Dammit, you’re stuck in my head, and I can’t stop thinking of you,”
“I’ll take you wherever you want to go,” he said, knitting his brows, as if not even he could believe what he was saying.
“It’s not like I don’t love holding you, Freckles, but if you don’t tell me what happened, I might draw the wrong conclusions, and I’ll wind up pounding the shit out of the wrong guy.”
“Please God tell me you didn’t fuck my other car up, too, and now you’ve come to me because you feel bad about it because I swear, all the kisses in the world won’t help that…”
“I hope you’re not stupid enough to let that asshole put his hands on you.”
Nothing would be as intense as the feelings I had for that girl now sleeping in my home.
“You could have caused me big, big problems. Luckily I’ve been wanting to kiss you ever since you walked through my front door.”
She was perfect…and I was falling in love like an idiot.
“I’d do it all with you, Noah, you know that…but I won’t do anything until the fear disappears from your eyes.”
“You better have a good reason for waking me up at three a.m.,” I grunted, closing my eyes and falling back into my mattress. “Nick, I need you to come…Noah’s in bad shape,” she said. I got up, suddenly tense, and turned on the light. “What is it? Is she hurt?” I said, crossing the room, already looking for something to wear. “She’s been throwing up for like half an hour. She’s totally shit-faced.” I cursed and grabbed my keys. “Tell me the address.”
“Noah,” he said, shocked, “you did the right thing. All I want is to be there for you and protect you with my life if I have to. That’s what I’m feeling right now, and I swear to you, those fuckers who stuck you in the closet, I’ll kill them with my bare hands.” “Nicholas, I’m damaged goods.” “Don’t ever say that again,” he ordered me, angry that I’d even said it. I felt a cascade over my cheeks and lips as I started crying again. “Nick… I might not be able to have kids.” That was my biggest secret, the one that hurt the most. The worst consequence of that night. “Because of how hard he hit
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“You were made to be my personal torture,” he said, pressing into me in places that had never burned as they did just then.
Why could that smile of hers drive me so crazy?
His lips kissed mine, gently but with the full force of the love that had grown between us. The kind of love that happened only once in a lifetime, the kind of love that touched your heart and never left you, the kind of love nothing else compared to, a love we sought, a love we may even have hated, but that made us alive, that made us need each other, that turned us into something the other person couldn’t live without…the love that I had just found.
A few hours later, when I had her sleeping in my arms, I realized something very important. The lights were out, the shades drawn…and Noah was sleeping with a look of utter relaxation on her face, without a trace of fear. I realized then that I had helped her, too, that I also had caused a radical change in her life. That had been my fault.
