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Watching himself edge closer and closer to the brink of that cliff. Betrayal and guilt awaited him at the bottom, yet sometimes that fall didn’t seem so bad.
“It means you’re gonna learn today.”
“In this war between you and him, someone must lose. But if you’re fighting for the right thing, the same thing, losing can be a different, sweeter kind of victory.”
“You could just tell him how you feel.” He ignored that. Worst advice ever.
“You must know you had it from the very beginning. You never lost my attention.”
“Get inside me so I can get you out of my system.”
“Now you can say you didn’t have a choice.” He
“I’ll take the blame for the both of us.” It was the least he could do.
Except Daniel could’ve gotten away at any time. He chose to stay. He chose to let Stavros take him. He offered up himself. That knowledge fucked Stavros’ head up more.
“You’re my bourbon. I can’t get you out of my veins.”
They touched each other with hands covered in blood only they could see.
She must know he’d been in that coffin with her, six feet under and suffocating until Stavros helped him come up for air.
“Because I’m afraid that what I feel for him might burn brighter, hotter, than what I felt for her.”
“Any price you named…” He shoved his hands into his coat pockets. “I would have paid it. Anything you wanted, I would have given it.”
Daniel suspected Syren had been the one to give Stavros the folder on Toro and Levi. The manipulations should anger him, but he didn’t have the strength for that.
Obviously
“Then don’t fucking try to leave me again.”
“You want to get up?” Mouth curved, Stavros said, “I’m sure your nephew will be here in a second to make sure I didn’t shoot you.” “No.” Of course, Toro chose that moment to come racing in. “Tío!” He skidded to a halt at the bottom of the stairs. “Fuck. Really?” Stavros chuckled.
“I used to think he’d done the worst anyone could possibly do to you,” he said in a low tone. “But I see the way you look at him.” “And?” “He can do much worse.” Toro nodded. “He can hurt you even more…”
What he felt for Daniel now demanded he pull his weight.
“Because I needed you, and to have you I had to forgive you.”
