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Dorian’s P.O.V

I confessed to Susie. I told her everything her everything. How I got close to Noah just to wreck him. To twist the knife where he wouldn't see it coming.

Except I didn’t and instead I fell hard. And now everything burns.

She left after a while and told me not to say anything while I was drunk and wait until morning when my hands weren’t shaking and my mouth wasn’t full of regret and Jack Daniel’s.

But Susie doesn’t get it. She’s not the one who's been waking up next to someone who trusts you, touches you like you're real, says your name like it means something—and knowing, deep down, he has no idea what you did to hurt him.

I stared at my glass until the ice melted and ordered another. And then another.

By the time I stumbled out the bar, my jacket was barely hanging off one shoulder and my brain felt like it was short-circuiting in slow motion.

But I knew where I needed to go.

I needed to tell him.

I needed to look Noah in those ocean-blue eyes and rip myself open be
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