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Love is our greatest weakness. Nothing will royally fuck you up the way love can, and I swore I would never be such an idiot for another person.
but she was different than me—better than me.
“Listen to me, princess. I didn’t hire you to try and seduce me, so stop this shit right now.”
I may not be rich or classy, but I’m sure as fuck no princess. I’ll do my goddamn job, and I’ll get my money, and I will never see the Wildes again.
But she doesn’t. She touches my arm and shows me compassion, and it murders any restraint I had. Zara is off-limits. I don’t need to be getting involved with anyone. I can fantasize about a world where a girl half my age, a girl like her, might be mine, but it has to stay a fantasy.
Then, I managed to get her ass back to her apartment, and I didn’t plan on fucking her, but I wanted to take something he wanted for myself. It was payback.
Fuck with her to fuck with him, and she has no fucking clue.
I want to break down and cry, but I won’t let that motherfucker see me break. Not for a second.
“I know you’re angry, but I chose you because you can handle it. You can handle him and me because you know the same pain we do. It was never about you using your body to lure him in, Zara. It was about you and that steel fucking heart of yours.”
“Yes, I do. I know it’s not just grief. I know it’s the guilt eating you up. Guilt for surviving. For outliving them. For feeling like they took the wrong one.”
“I know it’s anger too. Helplessness. And rage because life robbed you and there is nothing you can do to change it. You can’t make anyone pay for what’s been taken.”
“You know what’s weird, though? I think you’re helping him as much as you’re helping me, and he doesn’t even know it.
“And I honestly wonder which of us needs you more.”
“Alistair, no!” I panic. “I’ve got you, baby. Nothing is going to happen to us.”
Being in Alistair’s gaze calms me. It feels like home, and every time I look at him now, I feel like I have to pinch myself.
“I know I fucked up, Zara. You deserved the truth back then, and I should have fought for you when I had the chance, so I’m glad you aren’t forgiving me right away. Don’t take me back, not yet. Make me work for it, baby”
“I see us. Just us. I see you as my wife, maybe even kids? I see a whole new chapter for us.”
