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All I wanted was to hear her finally express some sort of truth about who I was in her life. The control I willingly gave her, sacrificing what felt so agonizing for me.
“Aires, please…”
It was now or never.
This was it.
The moment she would show me her true colors.
“Say it!”
She flinched, her lips trembling. I tried to find her voice, her mind, and her heart, which I knew was mine. I was ready to beg if that was what it’d take for her to admit her true feelings about me. For her to finally admit she had always been mine. Leaning my forehead on her shoulder for support, I turned my face to lay soft kisses down her neck.
I kissed all along her cheeks, wrapping my arms around her, wanting her to seek the comfort she needed in my embrace and return the love I always received from hers. Every last part of her felt like it slipped through my hold and my heart.
I inched back, barely brushing my lips along her cheek until our lips almost touched.
Breathing out against her mouth, I ordered, “Say it, Bay. I know you want to. Please, just say itfor me.”
She swallowed hard and rasped, “Aires, you know I care about you.”
“Do I? How do I know? Huh?”
“You just know. That’s the whole point of you.”
“Why couldn’t you just say that to Robert, then?”
“You know why. Especially since B. Night called us out last week. I think he said something to him because he’s riding my ass about that role he wants me to accept.”
“And what do you want to do, Bay?”
“You know what I want. I just want to be with you.”
“Yeah? Well, you have a shitty way of showing it.”
“That’s not fair, and you know it.”
I immediately let her go. Her words felt like acid on every inch of my skin. I stepped back, putting some much-needed distance between us before I manhandled her the way I suddenly wanted to.
Traitorous waves of betrayal rolled off me as I closed my eyes, desperately trying to govern my thoughts and control my breathing.
My heart.
“How long do you want to play this game where we hide from the world?”
“Stop… I mean it, Aires. Stop it!”
“No! I’m not going to stop!”
“Don’t do this… please don’t do this.”
“When then? When is it a good time? After we wrap up this movie and we’re pulled apart again?”
“That’s not true, but there’s much more at stake for me than for you. You’ll just get to be the bad boy who bagged the good girl. Everyone will praise you. I’m the one people are going to think is a fool.”
“Wow.” I jerked back. “I’m thrilled you think so highly of me.”
“What do you expect? Your bed-hopping ways, the hordes of women you flaunt on a daily basis, and let’s not forget the number of sex tapes there are of you on the internet. Can you understand where I’m coming from for a second?”
