Chapter 21. I Won’t Leave You

Pulling the door open, she looked at him, the light from her room illuminating the dark space he stood in. “What do you want to say?”

“Can I come in? Or do you want to come out?”

Quinn sighed, stepping out of the doorway. “Come in.”

When he walked in, she closed the door behind him, gesturing towards the bed Delilah used to sleep on. “You can sit there.”

While he sat, she took a seat in front of him on her bed. “Can you talk now?”

“Well I… I’m not sorry about what I did… what we did. I’m only sorry that it wasn’t enough to actually make you mine. The fact that you regret it, the fact that you think of it as a mere mistake makes my heart ache. I might not fully understand why you’re so strongly against this, but can you not at least give me a chance?”

“Is that what you’re here for?”

“Precisely, it is exactly what I’m here for. I heard about what happened, I probably shouldn’t have stuck my nose in your business… but about what he did, I’d nev