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To the Core
“To think, I once thought you…Safe.” I said ruefully.
Safe…I was shaking my head at myself.
How many times had I thought how silly that word was, in application to him?
He lifted his head in surprise. “I am safe.”
I searched his face. Sensing the severity in his meaning.
“For you.” He vowed. “I will never hurt you, Angel. If you stay by my side, I’ll give you everything.”
I nodded. Sensing the deep sincerity.
As if he was now offering me everything he’d yearned to give me back then.
“You were enough then too, Kane. You know that?”
It was something that really needed saying.
His brow furrowed. As if in doubt.
I felt the immediate need to reassure him.
As he would me.
“When you were, K.P.” I explained. “You were enough. I was just too young and dumb to see it.”
He laughed and dropped sideways over me. “Isn’t that the story of everyone’s life?”
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