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“It was best for my family at the time. For my mother.”
I roll my eyes. “You think that’s going to convince me? I’m not going to be with someone who’ll choose his mother over me.”
He takes a step forward. “That’s fair, and I agree. But the threat that forced me to choose between her and you is gone now.”
“Until something else comes up. I was obviously too inconvenient to fight for last time.”
He bristles. “Don’t say that.”
“Then prove me wrong.” My entire body is shaking, and pressure is building behind my eyes. I can’t cry. Not now. Not like this.
“You’re cold.” He takes off his jacket and steps toward me.
I stumble backward, knowing that if he touches me, I’ll be done for. But my foot catches on a crack in the sidewalk, and I fall backwards.
As if he predicted it would happen, Alexander rushes toward me and catches me right before I hit the ground. He pulls me up, holding me as I regain my balance.
“Sophia, I’ve already told you more than once. I’m not losing you again. Trust me or don’t trust me, I don’t give a fuck. You’re mine. And I’m not leaving you alone until you know it.”
My breath catches, and even though I know it’ll do no good, I struggle against him. I’m met with a wall of muscle and arms of steel. “You don’t deserve a second chance,” I snap.
“I never said I did.”
I stop struggling, looking up at him in shock. “Then what—”
“What I deserve doesn’t change the fact that you’re mine. Whether you decide to give me another chance doesn’t change a thing. I’m in your life, Sophia. Permanently.”
My hands clutch at the sleeves of his shirt as I glare up at him. This asshole. He’s not even giving me a choice.
Either I willingly give him a second chance, or he’ll take one by force. Take me by force—my heart, my soul, my body.
The possessiveness in his eyes should scare me, but instead it tugs at something deep inside of me. Something that wants to surrender to him.
I shove that part of me down. No matter what he’s saying, Alexander is trouble. And I have to stay in control as much as I possibly can.
His arms tighten around my waist, waiting for my response. Getting impatient.
Two choices.
Condemn myself to fighting him off until he relents—if he ever does.
Or give him the damn chance. Give it to him, give myself a bit of control over this contorted version of a relationship, and keep my guard up.
I’ll find a way out of this somehow.
Unless things work out.
My whole body goes still at the thought.
There isn’t a safe way to entangle myself with Alexander. No matter how hard I try, a small part of me will always hope. Hope that he means it. That he won’t lose me again. Won’t leave me again.
But it’s not worth the risk. This is going to blow up in my face—I know it.
I’m not going to lose you again.
I shut my eyes, shaking my head at the way his words get under my skin. I won’t open up to him. I won’t let him in.
I’m not getting my heart broken again.
