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“Don’t ever let go of her, Lance. You fucking fight for her until your last breath, you hear me?”
“I can see why Darcy loves you,” I said eventually, and Orion’s eyebrows rose in surprise.
In this one instance, I may have been full of shit. We both know you won. I hope you enjoy your prize Lot J, top floor, in the parking garage.
“You two are…well, fuck the law for saying you can’t be together,” Darius said, folding his arms.
“Roxy said no to me,” he said in a low voice which cut Marguerite short. “Not the other way around. And I’m pretty sure I told you not to talk shit about her once already.”
“It was like sticking my dick into a sack of potatoes and shaking it around to see what happened,” he deadpanned.
“The stars might have decided that you can never be mine,” Darius said roughly, refusing to move away from me. “But I am yours. No matter what. I don’t care where we end up or who we’re with, I’ll always be yours. And I’m going to fix the damage I did to us even if the stars don’t care. I’m going to prove to you that I could have been worthy of you if I’d just listened to my heart sooner.”
“Look, sometimes we want to see the good in people we care about so much that we pretend it’s there, living under all the layers of cruelty. But the fact is, Diego, some people are toxic. And if you keep them in your life, they’ll poison everything good in your world until you end up being just like them. And that’s a far worse fate than going against the grain and making your own path. Even if that means you’re alone.”
“I’d buy you fifty of them if I knew they’d all make you smile like that,” I replied dismissively as I stepped closer to her.
“I wasn’t worthy of your love then and I’m still not worthy of it now. But if you gave me forever then I’d spend every second of it trying to be.”