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“Do you love me, Jet? Despite it all, do you love me?”
“Ayden, I’m here. Of course I love you. I loved you before, I love you after, and I’ll love you for everything in between.” …
“Jet Keller, I love you, and there is no future for me without you in it. I’m never going to bed with a man who isn’t you again. I don’t care if you’re a rock star or a car salesman. I just want to be a you and me.

“You in love with me, Ayd?”
I closed my eyes and kissed him like he had just kissed me. we made so much sense together even if made no sense at all.
“I’m in love with us, Jet.”

“Then don’t this, Ayd. You’re making a terrible mistake. I don’t think he’s everything you want; I think he’s everything you need.”

“Look, I don’t know about love, or being meant for someone, but I’m infatuated with him… when he touches me, I forget to breathe and when he sings to me, oh my Lord, when he sings to me there are no words to describe what that does to me… I’ve never felt about anyone the way I felt about him… I might be in love with him, but I can’t be, because I’m not willing to be the one who destroys him.

I wanted to tell her I couldn’t see a place in my life or in my bed for anyone but her now, and that she made me feel that every love song I had ever written or sung made no sense until she came into the picture. But I didn’t, because I knew she wasn’t ready to hear it, and I wasn’t sure what it meant to me that I was feeling it… I was going to hold onto her for as long as I could…

“…She knows that because of you I feel like I’m willing to do whatever it takes to have you, and damn the consequences and whatever gets in my way. Because you get me like no one ever has and you’re more addicting than anything illegal I ever messed with in the past. Mostly, she knows that when I’m with you, all I think about is you and me… You could own me Jet, and I don’t want that to ever happen.

I don’t know how she got it the way she did, but regardless of where we went with our relationship — or no relationship — Ayden Cross was the one person who simply understood me. That alone was enough to make me care for her like I had never cared for anyone else. It would’ve so easy to fall in love with her, secrets and all.

I know what I wanted: him. I felt like I had wanted him forever I wasn’t going to be all crazy and say I was in love with him, that I couldn’t live without him, but he did something to me, got to me in a way no one else ever had. He might think he was broken but I knew the truth — that he was funny, sweet, and undeniably talented and there were more than enough pieces if him at my disposal if I wanted try…

“… You keep telling me I don’t know you, and that I don’t have a clue, but the truth is, we don’t know each other, and I don’t know that either of us is really ready to handle the other. What I do know is I want you more than I want to keep breathing.”