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

enough to let myself relax, how will I ever go back to how

that when this fantasy ends, I

a scrunched up sort of pain. Sorrow darkened his eyes.

said, but the bitter tone of

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

someday I would have to wake up from.

he did not love to fulfill his parents‘ expectations of him.

“But while

don’t need your

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

but I couldn’t tell him what to do

he still seemed set in

a way that I could convince

to

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