He stops in his tracks and glances at her over his shoulders. “If you want to talk … you know where to find me.”
CHAPTER 48
Sunny
God,I didn’t know how much I could love my own goddamn shower after being away from home for so long.
I turn around under the water and watch the droplets roll down, but a soft click has me turning off the shower immediately.
Narrowing my eyes, I grab a towel and wrap it across my body, then step out and walk into my room. I don’t even have to turn around to know he’s here.
“Xavier … what are you doing here?”
He appears from the shadows, hiding behind my door. “How did you know I was here?”
“I knew I recognized that scent in the air somewhere … but your footsteps gave you away.”
He places his hands on my side and leans his chin on my shoulder. “I just wanted to come and see if you were okay.”
“I’m fine.”
“You wouldn’t tell a soul if you weren’t. That’s why you kill.”
I sigh.
Why does he always see through me so easily?
“Foley told you what they did to me,” I say.
My eyes lower to the floor, my own body suddenly feeling like it doesn’t belong to me, but his hands on my waist ground me.
I swallow. “I have more rage in me than I can contain.”
“I can handle it,” he says.
“I amnotlovable material.”
“I will adore every part of your body,” he whispers.
My hands clench into balls. “I cannoteverhave children.”
“It doesn’t matter to me. I have enough if I have you.”
Tears well up in my eyes. I don’t ever cry, but dammit … this just might make me. “How can you so easily look past that?”
“Because I’ve always loved you, nothing will ever change that.”
I bite my lip in agony.
“Your struggle, your pain … I do not ever want you to feel alone. I am right there with you, every step you take. No matter how far off the deep end you go, I will not abandon you. Ever.”
I turn around in his arms as the tear rolls down my cheek, and his thumb reaches up to wipe it away. “And if you feel hollow, take whatever parts you need from me to make yourself whole again so I can love the emptiness away.”
Fuck.
After everything I’ve done, everyone I’ve hurt, he still refuses to let me go. How could I not be head over heels for a boy like him?
I wrap my arms around him and hug him so tightly it feels like my heart might combust out of my chest.
