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Out of respect for your choice and for myself, this is goodbye, Stella. Be happy.
“The m-man outside, I put money in his cup, I thought he w-was, you know, in n-need of help, and he started screaming that it was his coffee,” I stutter out as Easton’s laughter amplifies.
“I’m also thinking you’ve never been properly kissed, fucked, or loved and that you caught a glimpse of something you want for yourself.”
“If you weren’t so determined to keep me out of your bed, I’d be fucking the breath out of you right now, Natalie.”
“No, it’s not. You punched a hole in my goddamned chest in Seattle, only to leave me in the dark to try and figure out how to fill it.”
I want to belong to Easton. I want us to exist. Again, I want what I can’t have.
“I’ll go first, again. I’ve thought about you every damn day since you left, but I’ve made that pretty fucking obvious. Your turn.”
“Intelligent men don’t let life-changing women pass them by without trying to grasp onto them with both hands. I don’t need endless months to figure out you’re that woman for me. I’m not most men, Natalie. I know exactly what I don’t want, and it’s everything outside of that door. What I do want is standing in front of me, and the idea of letting her walk away from me a second time is fucking eating me alive.”
“Jesus Christ, I heard you, I hear you, but I won’t let this go. I fucking won’t as long as you’re with me, and I know you don’t want me to, either.”
“You want to talk about I can’t? How about I can’t fuck you again and watch you walk away from me, again. Once was plenty.” He stops the hand I’m using to stroke him and flattens my palm against his stomach before sliding it up to rest over where his pounding heart lays. “I want more for myself, and I want to give you so much fucking more. So, think of what you’re asking me because I know exactly what I’m asking of you,” his voice cracks with emotion. “This is me fighting dirty for us both, so please just admit it so I can give you the best parts of me, because I want every fucking part of
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“Marry me because we’re the rare, lucky ones who managed to find something together so many others don’t have—it would feel criminal not to. For both our sakes, marry me, Beauty, right now, marry me tonight.”
“It’s Crowne. Your name is Natalie Crowne,” I snap as the accumulating acid starts to pour out of me, “or did you fucking forget?”
“You’re my life, and there’s nothing, nothing, on this earth you could do that could erase an ounce of my love for you.”
“You altered your future when you took my ring and my fucking last name.”
“You came to Seattle for me. You found me, married me, you meant it,”
