Chapter 232

• My eyes flutter open, and for a moment, I forget about everything else. I forget about the years of hurt, the insults, thejokes. All I can focus on is the way his thumb brushes against my cheek, the way his voice wraps around me like a soft blanket.
• “I don’t want to hurt you again. I want to make it right.”
• And just like that, I’m lost. Whatever walls I’ve spent years building up come crashing down, and before I can stop myself, I close the distance between us.