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“You’re my favorite person in the whole wide world, and I would swap everyone for you. Even Hugh.”
“When they said someone had been saved from the water. I prayed for it to be you.”
“I think they wanted your dad to save Bethany.”
“I didn’t,” I admitted honestly. “I wanted to keep you most of all.”
“I mean it,” he urged, turning to look at me now. “I can’t lose another person I love.”
“You love me?”
He nodded sadly as another tear trickled down his cheek. “I lo...
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“I don’t see anyone.” His lips tipped up in the smallest of smiles before he added, “Except for you.”
If I could sew this girl to my skin without causing her an ounce of harm, then I would do it in a heartbeat. That’s how vital she was to my life. How essential she was to my existence. If drugs were to Joey Lynch what Claire Biggs was to me, then there was no amount of rehab that could sway me to kick the habit. Because she was the habit of my lifetime.
From as far back as I could remember, my mind had always been very clear about three things. One: Hugh was my brother. Two: Bethany was my sister. Three: Claire was mine.
Because, as sure as there was a cat in County Cork, I would never cause harm to Claire Biggs. She was too important to me. She was everything to me.
“Please don’t let go.”
“Never,” he vowed. “Not in a million years.”
“I thank my lucky stars every day for her friendship.”
“Yeah, well, a little word of warning: you fuck with her, you fuck with me—”
“I’ll give you all my weekends, Claire Biggs,” His hand reached for mine, fingers entwining in that familiar way I treasured. “I’ll give you my weekdays, too.”
I could feel my heart accelerate to a thousand beats a minute, because while I might be cradling her face in my hand, she was holding my life in hers.
“She means nothing to me. Okay, Claire? Not a damn thing. You’re the only girl who’s ever meant anything to me.”
