I stumbled back one step my eyes wide and my eyebrows furrowed hard.
“What?” I said, my voice cracking. “You… you love me? What the f**k Alan?”
He raked both hands through his hair like a mad man pulling at the strands and breathing fast.
“Yes Hazel, I’ve loved you from the first day I met you five years ago. The second you walked into my office with that nervous smile and your hair clipped back I was done. I watched you every single day after that, I couldn’t take my eyes off you.”
I shook my head still backing up until my back hit the wall, “but you treated me like I irritated you all the time, you barely looked at me some days, you snapped at me over nothing.”
“Because I was scared Hazel!” He shouted then lowered his voice right away, “I was f*****g scared okay? Scared that if I l
