Your Fault (Culpable, #2)

by Mercedes Ron

Damn you, Nicholas Leister, why can’t I get you out of my head for at least one second a day?

“I think you’ve had enough.” That voice. I looked up, and there he was: Nick.

“I missed you, Freckles,” he whispered in my ear before pulling my head back and kissing me on the lips.

“I love you, Nick,” I said when his eyes met mine. “You and I aren’t made to be apart,” he responded.

“I love you like crazy, you know that, right?” I said. “I love you more,”

“This way, wherever you go, you’ll always have my heart with you,” I said, kissing her on the cheek. It was the cheesiest thing I’d ever said, but that was what she’d done to me. I was now an idiot in love.

I’d have preferred everyone did know what we’d been up to. That would keep all the little boys away from my girlfriend.

“I love you, and I’ll love you for the rest of my life,”

It’s not worth racing if the outcome is me losing you.”

I didn’t want her demons to become mine, too,