“You can’t keep doing this to me, Nate. You can’t keep pretending there’s something between us and then—” “No one is pretending here, Ash!” he barked. “I feel it. Trust me, I fucking feel it so damn hard, it hurts, but that’s the problem. What I feel is too much, it’s too big, and I’m scared…” He trailed off but didn’t break eye contact with me to hide his emotions. “I’m terrified that I don’t have the capacity or the emotional depth to give you what you need. I can’t fucking share you, Ashley. Don’t you get it? If you were mine…you’d be mine. And I know you’d never be able to give me that
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