Don't Say You're Sorry (Hawthorne University #2)

by Bethany Winters

“Good. I want it to hurt. I want to feel you every time I move tomorrow.”

“Are you okay?” “Yeah, just give me a minute,” he mutters. “I’m trying not to come.”

Oh, have the tables have turned

Being here, in his arms…it feels like home. I’m finally home.

“Are you sorry?” I whisper. It takes him a minute, but he eventually says, “Never.”

He’s looking at me as if I’m his entire world. Fuck air. Fuck water. Fuck sunshine. He’s looking at me as if the only thing he needs to survive is me. Was

The whole time you were away, I wasn’t calling you. I was calling him.”

Dam ax that shit is wild

“I would have come running for you. You know that, right?” He hesitates, and it tears me up inside. “Please, tell me you know that.” “I know now,”

“Not a day went by when my heart didn’t ache for you as much as yours did me,” I

“Just you and me,” I whisper. He nods. “Just you and me, baby.”

“I’m so fucking in love with you, E. I always have been. I never said it out loud because I was scared.

“You deserve an apology, Easton.” “I don’t want one. I have you.”

I can tell he likes hearing it.

It’s all he ever wanted to hear

I fucking love you, baby.

Aww

I want us to be happy. I want Easton to be happy.”

Low blow Mike low blow

“He left me, Mom.”

I definitely think they were there a thing

“I know. That’s why I did it. You would have buried it and put all of us above yourself, forever if you had to. I wanted to put you first for once. I…I chose you.”

“Because I want you to love yourself as much as I love you.