“I need to know if you can love me even after everything I’ve done.” “Why?” The word tasted like blood in my mouth, like I’d carved it out of my heart. “Because I’m so in love with you I can barely breathe,” she admitted, voice breaking, eyes filling, like the dam had finally broken, and emotion was rushing in through the scorched earth of her fallow heart. “I’m so in love with you that every day without you is almost more agony than I can bear, and I’ve been through a lot. I need you, Lux. You’re the light in the dark for me, and you always will be. I can’t promise to be easy and good after
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