Page 76 of Fighting Fate

With my hands bracing on either side of her, I nudge her knees apart with my thighs before slotting myself between hers.

“Please don’t,” she whispers, turning her face away from mine when I touch the tip of my nose to hers. “I don’t want to be anyone’s worst nightmare and certainly not your mistake. I just can’t…”

“You’re not any of those things. I was a jackass for walking out of here before. I was an asshole for saying all the shit I did. Those are my only regrets, sweetheart.”

A small smile lifts the corners of her lips for a fraction of a second before she shrugs at me apologetically. “We can be friends. We can figure out how to do this crazy thing together, but that’s all. That’s it, and if it’s not enough for you to stick around, then you should let us go now.”

“I’m not letting you go. Ever. I don’t care how long it takes, but I will make it up to you. I’ll make my stupidity up to you both.”

“I don’t know whether you can. I don’t—I…I just don’t know, Rory.”

Maybe she doesn’t, but I’m not letting this go. Walking away from Willow and our child will be a regret I won’t be able to live with.

All the love she has inside her. That big heart of hers belongs to me, and there’s no way in hell I’m letting it slip through my fingers.