“Right, well, since I don’t need to worry about it, I’ll just go home then and you can worry about it all on your own, with your little boys’ club,” I tell him. “Wait.” Gio reaches out and grabs me around the waist. He pulls me into his chest. “Why?” “Because I’m fucking petrified of losing you, Ellie. I’m scared and I’ve never been scared of anything in my fucking life. But you… you scare the shit out of me.”
