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“I’m going to give you the world,” he continues. “Anything you want. Money, status, jewelry, cars – I’m going to lay the entire world at your feet.”
“Something’s wrong.” “There’s nothing –” “You’re fidgeting,”
He cocks an expectant eyebrow at me. I steel my nerves. “Say we broke up –”
“We wouldn’t break up.” The flat, knee-jerk answer is exactly what I’m expecting to come out of his mouth. “But if we did –” “We wouldn’t.” “But if, for some reason, we did –” “We, for some reason, wouldn’t.” An exasperated sigh escapes. “Okay, in a hypothetical situation, if we –” “There is no situation, hypothetical or otherwise, where we’d break up.” A muscle ticks in his jaw.
“But if you no longer wanted to keep me close –” “There is no future in which we aren’t together,” he snaps. “I thought you understood that as well as I do.”
“Sweetheart,” Adrian strokes my cheek. “Whatever you need from me, I will gladly give it to you if it alleviates your fears that I’m going to wake up one morning and no longer want you by my side.”
“Then tell me you love me like I love you.” I clasp a hand over his cheek, and he flinches – actually flinches – at my touch. Oh God.
Dear Adrian, I love you, but I can’t hinge a future on someone who doesn’t feel the same. Love, Poppy,’” he drawls, and I hear the crinkle of paper.
