“Lance,” I warned, unsure what I was even warning him of. I just needed it to stop. All of it. I couldn’t believe after all this time I still felt like this. Like the world began and ended with him and I would never belong to any other man. But that’s not real anymore. He’s not mine and I’m not his. “Fuck,” he growled, clamping his eyes shut for a moment before looking at me again with a tight expression. “How are you?”
