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She wanted the whole fucked-up picture.
Both of us.
Together.
And I’ll be damned if we let her walk away for good.
Chapter Thirty-Four
LUCA
We were in the best fucking mood we’d been in since she pulled away.
Actually—scratch that.
We were in the best mood of ourlives.
I couldn’t stop grinning. Bastion kept humming under his breath while he dismantled her bed frame, barely looking up from the power drill.
It was dangerous, the kind of high we were on.
A win we’d been starving for.
Because last night…
She’d snapped.
Walked into the dorm, tension on her face, hands in the air like she was surrendering to something that’d been chewing her alive.
And then she said it.
“I like you both.”
Just like that. With her voice shaking.
With those big, gorgeous eyes of hers going glossy—nearly in tears.
Not because she didn’t want us.
But because she did.So fucking muchit scared her.
“I can’t choose,” she said. “You’re not the same. You’re… different. And I like youbothfor different reasons.”
Her voice cracked. “And I don’t want to ruin you. You need each other. I won’t be the thing that breaks you apart.”
If that didn’t make us want her more…
She wanted us.
She wanted this.As much as we did.
And somehow she still thought she was the problem. Like her loving us equally was going todamagesomething.
No, baby.
That was the whole fucking point.
I didn’t care that she’d walked out right after, retreating to her brother’s wing of the dorms like the confession had short-circuited her.
