Chapter 158

It’s barely coherent, but he seems to understand loud and clear. Pulling me up to gaze at me, nose to nose, sharing air. Smoothing fingers through my hair, across my face to move it back and cradles me tenderly.

“I wasn’t planning on one. I figured a month was plenty of time to change your mind and let it settle down.” It’s a mischievous, cocky smile, no shame in his blatant arrogance at all, and for some reason, it makes me laugh rather than mad. Tears break into giggles, and I find myself both laughing and crying at the same time. A release that’s so needed.

“Why do you love me? I’m not a good person; I have done many awful things. I’m used goods, broken and messed up. Why me? Of all the people in the world, why did you fall for someone like me?” I sound pathetic and pleading. But I need to know what made me so unique in a world where he could have had his pick of women. Why did he choose the street rat, ex-hooker and devious manipulator as his lifelong mate? I don’t d