My breath hitched, “You can’t force me to love you.”

“Tell me what I should do then,” he said quietly. “If not this, then how do I love you without losing you?”

Hearing his words made me clench my fist. How would he love me without losing me? It didn’t matter how he loved me or not when he had already lost me. Years ago. If only… If only I hadn’t seen his truth. But I had. I would never trust or love him. He would never have me. But knowing him, without answering, he won’t ...