“There’s no reason for you to stay with me. You are free now. Even if I could force you to stay with me, I won’t. You are free to choose your own life.” The words I’d been longing to hear from the moment Falcone had given me to Growl suddenly stung. “So what is it you’re saying? Would you prefer if I left you?” How could I leave him when we hadn’t been a couple in the first place? “That’s the last thing I want,” he said fiercely. He pulled his hands out, restless, almost as if he wanted to grab me and shake some sense into me but he didn’t touch me. “Then what do you want?”
