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Darkness settled over us.
Mimicking our minds.
A heavy presence filled my lungs, making it hard to breathe. Tonight was the night I might lose her when I needed her the most.
I hoped.
Prayed.
Thinking she wanted to believe me. Deep down knowing I’d never hurt her.
I felt it.
She felt me.
She bared it all…
Her pain.
Her worry.
Her love for me.
She showed me the girl who sought comfort in me by making love to her, leaving the world behind in our own reality. The one we wanted to be a part of so badly when we were kids, but we were young and had already lost so much time.
So many years.
I couldn’t lose her again.
Not when we’d just found one another.
I grasped right then and there. I had been right from the beginning of our love story. Bailey was the one who got away. She was the reason I kept women at an arm’s distance. She was the reason behind the wall I kept up.
She was the reason I was so jaded.
I didn’t believe in love until her.
I may have owned her heart, but Robert was determined to…
Own her soul.
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Bailey
I could only take so much.
“Aires, please stop.”
“No! I’m not going to stop it! Not until you at least understand that Robert is a fucking snake.”
I could feel my resolve crumbling.
“I can’t breathe,” I admitted. “I feel like I can’t breathe.”
With his face on the side of my face, he glided his cheek along the crevice of my jaw and then along the side of my neck. Moving his lips to my quivering pout.
He kissed my lips, murmuring, “Then I’ll breathe for you.”
