Page 138 of Tainted Romance

He didn’t want that.

She wiped tears away.

Leaving is the best option. I won’t even say goodbye to him. He wouldn’t want that anyway.

It was a simple fact, Zane hadn’t said no, but how he had treated me, was telling me it was a hell no. So, you don’t wait around to be dumped again, Allie. You leave.

She turned her head and headlights were coming at her.

Her mind went blank.

She was leaving?

That was right before the accident she had decided she was leaving. No wonder she wasn’t waking up, because she was only doing what she had planned; leaving me, although this way she was planning on dying.

I was up and out of my chair in a second. How was I going to get her to wake up?

I had caused this. All of this.

I walked up the hall, and my luck would have to be good because Blake was talking to one of the doctors at the nurses’ station which meant no-one was with Allie.

I knew which room was hers by the pull to her.

I opened the door, and there she was. Lying still. In the middle of the bed.

I walked to her side, taking the seat that Blake had obviously pulled to her side.

Her hand was cold as I took it which was odd because we normally always ran hot, but when it came to Allie, she never did what was normal.

Her black hair was framing her face. Blake had tucked it behind her ears. The piercing in her ear was coming out as soon as she woke up.

And she was giving up smoking.

I had her now. I was alone with her, and I had never felt so bloody nervous.

I could tell the way she was reliving memories she knew who was in the room which was why most of the memories she was reliving were of Blake and Chase.

That was the first one she’d had of me, and it gave me insight into what she was thinking before the accident. I had caused it, like I guessed, but her leaving. Did she really think I would let that happen?

But if she had gone to my dad behind my back, he would have released her. She would have left, and one day I would wake up to find out the person I loved the most was gone because I was a selfish prick that didn’t see what he had.

Allie was offering me her whole heart. The rest of her life and I had turned her down.

Dickhead. I was a dickhead.

I had her now so I could tell her how I felt. She could hear me.

I got up, still holding her hand, feeling incredibly nervous.

I lowered my mouth to her ear. “Don’t leave, Allie. Please don’t leave me.” If she knew she had me begging, she would laugh at me, but I would beg. I would do anything to keep her.

She didn’t want to face a future without me. Dying would ensure she wouldn’t.

“I’m a selfish jerk, Allie, and you have to hear me when I say I love you more than anything, so please don’t leave me.” I kissed her cheek. “Don’t leave me.”

I reached into her mind, but it was blank. She wasn’t dreaming. She was thinking. She wasn’t reliving memories.

“What are you doing in here?”

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