Nicholas shook his head. “I’m protective of you and Elva. Those instincts have nothing to do with

whether or not I trust you.”

I wanted to believe that, but if it was true, then why did he hesitate?

“I’ve been alone a long time, and I’ve gotten by just fine.” The words emerge from a place of hurt. He cut

me by not trusting me. How did he think I had survived these past three years?

what to keep you

“Is it so wrong for me to safe?” Nicholas’s brow crinkled in confusion. His frown was

heavy set.

“Yes.”

“Why?”

I placed a hand over my aching heart. “Because you won’t be with me forever, Nick. If I get used to your

ever go back to how things were before?

that when this fantasy ends,

confusion in his face shifted into a scrunched up sort of pain.

that,” he said, but the bitter tone of his voice made it clear that he

the hand life had given us, and we’d made our choices. With

someday I would have to wake up from. Nicholas, however, was stuck here, forced

to fulfill his parents‘ expectations of

whisper. “But while you are

need your

Piper. I’m giving it to you because I want

arms. I wasn’t thrilled with his reasoning, but I couldn’t tell him what to do And

me, he still seemed set in his

do was think of a way that I could convince him and myself that

made me soft, and I was able to look out

Ineade

o be

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