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“We’ve never been over.”
“Three years, Gavin.Three.”
“That wasn’t my choice. I don’t care how much time passes. We’re meant for each other.”
Lyla shook her head wildly, willing him to see, to understand. “We’re not. I can’t. I’m not what you want.”
“You’re exactly what I want.”
“You don’t know what you want!”
“Of course I do.”
Lylahatedfeeling like this—desperate, afraid and fucking needy. When her eyes filled with tears, Gavin groaned.
“Fuck, don’t cry.”
“I can’t do this.”
“You can. You can take it, Lyla.”
“I have a life, Gavin. I was happy—”
“You weren’t,” he said in a near feral snarl.
“Stop saying that!”
Gavin’s hands sank into her hair as he pulled her close. “Just as I know you were meant for me, you know it too. You feel it.”
“No,” she whispered and would have shook her head, but his grip wouldn’t allow it.
“No matter what you believe about me, Lyla, I care. I never stopped looking, never stopped wishing you were here with me. Does that sound like a man who doesn’t know what he wants?”
“It sounds like an obsession. That means nothing.”
“Obsession.” He tasted the word and apparently approved of it because he nodded. “Yes.”
Lyla couldn’t stop the flare in her belly. There was a war taking place inside of her. Heart and mind clashed. Was it better to live a safe life or live dangerously, straddling the line between love and hate and life and death?
“Whatever you need to be mine again, I’ll do,” Gavin said.
“I don’t trust you.”
“I’ll work on it. What else?”
Having Gavin’s entire focus unnerved her. He looked at her as if she mattered, as if his life depended on the words that fell from her lips. Lyla couldn’t take it. She averted her eyes and tried to regulate her breathing.
“What else, Lyla?” Gavin insisted. “What do I have to do to get you back?”
Was she in an alternative universe? Was she actually contemplating giving him a chance? He wanted a list of rules? She would give him one. “Don’t threaten me, don’t threaten people I love,” she said.
Gavin’s face hardened, but he nodded.
“You don’t hurt meever.”
“I won’t.”
She didn’t believe him. His temper had gotten worse over the years, not better. “If this doesn’t work out, you have to let me go. You can’t expect anything I feel to be genuine if I’m a captive.”
