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He gave me a tight smile and shrugged. “I ain’t immune to all the tears you two produced.”
Cupping his cheeks, I went to my toes and kissed him before wrapping my arms around him. “Goodbyes suck,” I said again.
“Fuck yes they do.”
I wanted to drag Kayson with me to go find her.
We had to keep her here with us.
Kidnap her ourselves.
Because something already felt like it was missing.
Quake
Lock it down.
Lock it the fuck down.
Clenching my jaw, I hugged Eve to me.
Rommy’s words played on my mind.
“I know you’ll love her with everything you have because you’re a good man, Quake. You and Eve mean so much to me, and I’m going to miss you both like crazy. Take care of each other while we’re apart, you smart, smoking-hot man.”
I hadn’t even laughed at her words. I’d been too choked up to say anything.
I wanted to tell her she meant a lot to us, too, but I couldn’t even do that.
Rommy was now gone. She’d be going through security and then getting on a plane back to Australia.
It didn’t sit right with me.
Eve was struggling too. The tears from all of us were enough of a sign. They weren’t for just a friend either. Rommy had made a place in my heart and Eve’s. She was lodged, stuck, and seeing her walk away was fucking hard.
It hollowed my gut.
I wanted to pick Eve up and carry her with me to go after Rommy, then grab Rommy under my other arm and take them both home.
Fuck.
This shit wasn’t right.
My chest goddamn ached.
But it was too late.
She was gone.
And it really wasn’t right to try and figure out if the two of us could become three. Eve had only just accepted me. It’d be so wrong of me to suggest that our feelings for Rommy were something stronger than friendship.
Eve would have to figure it out for herself without my help.
If she ever did.
Romania
Customs was just around the corner. I had to keep it together for now. I had to get through to my parents and then I could shatter. I wanted to stay. I wanted to be with them, but they didn’t see me as anything other than a friend.
