AURORA'S POV
I had told Jackson to go, I had said that I did not want to have anything to do with him. I had told him never to show his face to me again. Or at least I had thought that I had.
But instead, I was so weak and pathetic that I broke. I could not hold back my emotions.
Despite everything he had done, once he mentioned loving me, everything that I had tried to hate him for fled from my mind.
I was so ready to forget about all his past indiscretions and act like nothing ever happened, act like he had not stomped on my heart and chosen someone else over me, act like he had not thrown away the five years that we had shared without so much as a thought.
Once Jackson began to say how much he regretted doing what he did, I could feel my heart melt. I had tried to steel myself against him but it was impossible.
My brain told me that I should hate him and I should cut him off from my life, but my heart told me otherwise, and my body went along with it.
His touch on my skin sent flam