ElenaSilence spread across the beach.No.That wasn’t right.The beach was anything but silent.The ocean was still moving behind us, waves folding over one another before breaking against the shore. Wind still whispered through my hair. Somewhere farther away, birds cried above the water.The world hadn’t gone quiet.I had.Every bit of chaos that had been running endlessly through my head suddenly stopped.Completely.As though every thought inside me had paused just to listen to the words that had left Jax’s mouth.Yours.And then my mind replayed it.Once.Twice.Again.Yours.My hand rose slowly.It was shaking.I pointed toward myself, even though there was absolutely nobody else standing between us whom he could possibly have meant.“Me?”The disbelief in my voice wasn’t subtle.It wasn’t something I could hide behind sarcasm or a laugh.It came out raw.Too loud.Almost frightened.“Me?”Behind me, Ashton stopped moving.I couldn’t see his face, but somehow I knew he was smil
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