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“I was always a Team Jacob guy myself,” he said lightly, dissipating my fear that he was going to leave the take-out food he’d brought for dinner and retreat well behind the bounds of duty. “Of course you were,” I said, hesitantly approaching the table. Jacob was made out to be the right choice—the good guy, and Edward, the bad one.
“Keira, sweetheart, I need you to know that your da is one of the bad guys. I do bad things to people because it’s my job. But I promise that I might be a bad guy, but for you, I’ll always be a good da and good man.”
“Gunner would say somebody went postal.”
If I was sure I trusted him. If I was sure I wanted to spend the night with him. If I was sure I wanted to give him my virginity. If I was sure that I wanted to start my life by getting into a relationship with the only link to my past.
What if one day, Archer was forced to do the same?
She wasn’t the one who’d been claimed in that doorway, I realized. I was. Utterly and completely claimed by her.
“Promise me you won’t make me lose you again.” I flinched, but he grabbed my chin before I could look away. “Last time, I lost you because you ran—because you thought you had no other option. I’m asking you to trust me this time. To stay here. With me. And fight this—whatever or whoever it is.”
“I’m saying that there will always be something to run from in life, baby,” he rasped softly. “But I want to be the thing that makes you stay and fight. I want to be the hope that makes you stand against the odds.”