Vulnerable

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My.

know me? I couldn’t be wrong because the boy with braces back in high school was

ut I was not completely bl

long time. He had this overprotective tendency, but it was sexy as hell. His dark hair and dark eyes, his growing scruff

—the boy who bumped into me many times. Arrow was

straint, desperation, and uncertainty as well. What I could think of was, why was he trying to pus

kiss—it was raw and urgent as if he was running out of time, and then he took his tim

instantly

n kiss, yet it buzzed every nerve ending in my body. It was no doubt that

of his tongue, and how it curled against mine before my

t to look back upon seeing the hospital and the lights focusing down on me that blinded m

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pain, then a voice—a female

oge

How are yo

sleep?” I wandered my unaffected eye around the recovery room. I could

re soon, or we can go to the ap

Imogen noticed what or

he o

smiled confidently. “I’ll driv

appointment weighed

chy in your eye

ok my head. “I think

hing came up’ must be very important for him to leave b

ed up with a broken leg and an arm because he broke his promises. Not

be a good guy, and he deserved someone better than me. I was

yn—the thing you saw in his e

s kind, funny, and blunt. She said she dated this gu

a bad

think he

ed my eyes in

ated after his rel

ind women. Or he doesn't need to. Women find him.” After those words left m

with his brothers in an explosion, but he accepted it, a

d licked my lips. I lost m

ng his assignment and after he was honorably discharged. A sick twist began to curl in my

ip. I didn’t even know if I read Arrow’s gesture

n, a disaster, and it was insane to even think that this thing between Arr

something t

Imogen. I saw the genui

emember s

ou know you can trust me

m the chair and carri

ead and take a rest. Yell out

was inside, I sagged against the door and closed my

lifetime, I made my decision. Imogen le

table clothes, I dragged my suitcase toward the door regardl

m and contradicted Imogen’s belief, he’d been holding back all this time because he was no

t when I got back to my grandma’s house. After she passed

my ex here—it would just cau

get the promotion, you will move

er woman and lied to my f

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was pit

if it was in place. Thankfully, I didn’t feel any irritation in my eye since I might have

ing held. My heart nearly stopped

he call