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Father didn’t love me; Mom didn’t love me enough. I guess that was why I loved too much. I had a lot of loveless holes to fill.
“I guess I just love moments.”
Everything was hollow. Everything except for my heart. And having an abundant heart in a hollow world was an affliction I was helpless to overcome.
“You fucking lied to me!” He shot forward like a predator in the night with balled hands and anger in his eyes. My own traitorous instincts kicked in. Memories unfurled. Flashbacks assaulted me. I shrank before him, cowering back, my arms lifting to block my face. Reed froze. Stopped dead in his tracks. “Christ,” he breathed out. Slowly, I lowered both hands from my face, my eyes wide and glassy as reality came tumbling back. Oh, God. I shook my head, humiliation sinking in. “I wasn’t going to hurt you. I would never hurt you.” “I-I know. I’m sorry,” I stammered, my headshake morphing into a
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“But, goddammit, I gave you too much.” He opened his mouth wider, a hot, wet trail coursing up the length of my throat until his lips were a millimeter away from mine. “I gave you power over me.”
“Every moment with you fucking hurts.” His voice was pure grit, words cracking and breaking. “Every moment without you…hurts so much more.”
“Falling for you has been the easiest thing I’ve ever done,” I confessed through the anguish. “Everything else? Painful. Torturous. Difficult beyond belief. But loving you…” The anger died out, flatlining to a dead pulse. “Effortless.”
“Yes, Halley, I’m in love with you. I think I proved that when I threw myself under the bus and completely destroyed my relationship with my daughter to protect you. To keep her from hating you,” he gritted out. “So, yes…I love you. I love you fiercely, wholly, selfishly and unselfishly, more than I ever fucking should. I love everything about you, from your smile, to your perfect heart, to the way your hair always slips from your ponytail when you’re running or sparring and hides those eyes I’ve been enamored with since the moment I first saw you. I love how you take every
Reed cupped my wet cheeks between his palms and pressed a kiss to my lips. “Go, Halley,” he whispered against my mouth. “Go with Scotty. Go because I love you. Go because it’ll kill me if you don’t do everything in your power to live a life you won’t regret.”
“I love you.” Reed tried in vain to erase my tear stains with his desperate kisses. But they’d carved holes. Left scars. “I love you, Halley,” he gritted out. “I’ll never stop.”
