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He holds my face, with a hand on either side, his dark brows pulled together. “A taste is all I’ll ever be able to have of you, Sienna. This… this is all we get.”

There’s so much sadness in the way he says that. He just gave me the most intense pleasure of my life with just his hand, and he thinks this is it?

“Fuck that,” I say, grabbing his face and pulling him back to me.

He doesn’t fight it. Instead, he bends and lifts me onto the table behind me, sending tools clamoring onto the floor. He kisses me deeply, passionately.

I feel our souls searching for each other in it. His hands roam my body freely. And I pull him by the belt loop so that he’s flush against me.

“Why shouldn’t we be able to have what we want, Levi?” I kiss him some more. “It’s our lives. We get to choose.”

His hand comes up to my cheek, cupping it as his lips move softer over mine, then he pulls back, looking into my eyes.

“I wish it were that easy. But you and I both know those aren’t the cards we’ve been dealt, Angel.”

I feel his words settle deep into me. I know it’s not easy. I know that choosing each other would mean walking through hell, especially for him.

People would talk.

Who knows what my father would think of him?

I don’t lose anything by choosing Levi. But by choosing me, Levi could lose everything.

That’s what he means. And finally, I get it. It’s not in the cards for us to be together, not with so much on the line for him to lose.

I nod and lean forward, resting my head on his chest.

“Yeah… I know.”

The sound of gravel crunching nearby sends Levi pushing himself away from me. And just like that, our moment is gone.

Only a memory now, that we have to bury.

I slide off the table as he adjusts himself and quickly runs his hands through his hair.

When the headlights of the vehicle turn off, I recognize Theo’s jeep.

He opens the door and jumps out, meeting his dad at the entrance. And I turn my attention to the bike I promised I’d have done by the end of the week.

“Theo,” Levi’s voice resonates through the nearly empty garage. “What’s going on?”

Theo walks into the garage, and I wave at him from the bike. He nods his acknowledgment before answering his dad.

“It’s mom,” he says, reaching behind his neck uncomfortably, eyes puffy like he’s been crying.

“She’s been arrested.”

Chapter19

Levi

“Where is she?”

The door is barely open to the bull pen when the words come flying out of me. Theo and Carter are both on my tail.

“Levi,” Chief Briggs says in greeting when he sees me bust in. “Josie’s okay. She’s eating some donuts in the break room.” I make a move to go to her. But he stops me with a hand to my chest. “Hold your horses there, Steele. We need to chat about a few things first.”

I grit my teeth and let him push me back a step, even though every instinct in me is screaming to barrel through and get to her.

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