Chapter 37: More Confessions

No going back.

Is that what I want? To have our relationship in the public eye while we're still figuring out whether we work as a couple? To have gossip sites and random people pick us apart or comment on whether I'm pretty enough or skinny enough for Dante?

"We don't have to go public immediately," I say. "I just want to know that there's a future for us. That you think we might... I mean, that if we stay together, we'll give this a real chance."

"We will." He pulls me closer to him. "I never got over you. I tried. I told myself you were better off without me. That I should give you the chance to find someone who could give you everything you deserved. But I couldn't forget you."

"I couldn't forget you, either," I say softly.

He smiles. "I thought you would have been scooped up by someone else immediately. When you told me you were in love with that Jack fellow..."

My cheeks burn. "I actually have a confession to make about that." If I don't confess this now, I never will. "Jac