“I need you to leave,” I rasped, my heart cracking in two. Those lips, once addictive and teasing, spread into a cruel smile when I looked back at him. “You have another thing coming if you think I’m stepping out of this house without you, Wildflower.” Wildflower. I sucked in my bottom lip, sinking my teeth into the flesh to stop the pain that word carried from penetrating my heart. But I wasn’t strong enough, not anymore. Not after everything I’d been through. My body, my heart—my damn soul—was exhausted, beaten down to the point of no return. So when the man I loved called me the nickname he
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