Page 104 of Dirty Temptation

I will not lose her.

“I love you,” I say with unbending force and then lift the single rose in my other hand, so she notices it.

Her mouth parts and as I smile softly at her, emotion fills her eyes.

That’s it baby, come back to me.

“For the love of god, who is this Romeo asshole, Molly. Do you want a fuck or not?” Steve shakes her.

“No,” she whispers, not taking her eyes off me.

No.

She said no.

She said FUCKING NO!

“Cockblockers.” Steve drops her arm and stomps away.

My lips stretch into a smile, and I can feel my eyes getting wet with...they’re not tears, they’re love. I never knew love was wet.

But I get it now.

“Wow, what a prize dickhead,” Levi says.

Molly stands before me shaking, her eyes getting wet with love too.

“Give them space,” Payton says behind me.

Knox made her stay away with her bodyguard— which the cat is out of the bag on that one now—and I feel my family move away.

“Hey baby.” I rasp softly.

“You came for me,” she says as if it’s unfathomable that someone would.

“Always,” I reply firmly.

I need her to know there is no question inside me about what she means to me.

I love her.

She’s mine.

The end.

“Are you going to ask me to accept your rose?” Molly takes a small step closer.

“That feels cheesy.” I smirk. “But if it works.”

Another step.

“Did you mean what you said?”

I nod. “Yes. Utterly and completely.”

“I don’t know if I’m ready. If I can, Atlas. He. He h—”

“I’ll wait. I would rather wait with you and help you through this, than not be with you, though,” I say truthfully.

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