I still can’t believe somebody like you would ever even look at somebody like me.” Calder blew air out of his nose. “Stop saying that. How can you not see how fucking special you are? I’ve wanted you since the minute I laid eyes on you and not because you were forbidden fruit and not because you were some innocent little virgin. You are the most beautiful person I’ve ever met, inside and out. You live in the most shallow place in the world, yet you somehow manage to stay sweet and gentle. You adopt unadoptable dogs, and you stay friends with a person even after they hurt you, and you say
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