“Don’t you ever fucking say that!” He stormed to me and cupped my face. “Don’t ever say that.”
“Then listen to me when I say I can’t!” I pushed his hands from my cheeks. “I can’t. Okay? Do you hear that? It’s not that I won’t. I can’t. Physically, mentally, emotionally, I can’t do that.”
“Why?”
His blue eyes were full of anger and pain and heat and what once was.
“I can’t fall in love with you,” I whispered. “Not again. If I have to pretend all the time, I might just do that.”
“Is that such a bad thing?”
“Yes!” I found his eyes and hugged myself. My voice increased in volume until I was shouting so hard my thr
