Landon & Shay: Part One (L&S Duet, #1)

by Brittainy C. Cherry

“Chick,” he muttered. “Satan,” I replied. “Tell me you don’t love me.” “I can’t do that.” “Yes, you can. Tell me you don’t love me. Please,” he begged. His lips brushed against mine as shivers raced through me. “No.” “Then tell me a lie,” he pleaded. “I hate you.” I breathed the words against his lips, and he swallowed them whole, as if they were the way to his existence. “I hate you, too,” he lied back to me, making a tear roll down my cheek. “But I hate you the most,” I swore. “I love you,” he told me, gently kissing my lips. It was so gentle that it almost felt like fiction. Like something I’d written about in my stories. Like a dream that finally came true. “I love you, too.” “But I love you the most,” he promised, and I felt it. I felt his love all throughout me. In my heart, in my soul, in my spirit. I also knew how hard it was for him to admit that. I knew Landon was sad. So, so sad, and so, so broken. And still, he loved me. That probably terrified the hell out of him.