The words taste bitter on my tongue. No matter how hard it was, it had to be done. Maybe telling Levi the truth would allow him to not feel so responsible for me. That way he wouldn’t feel so guilty about living his life and leaving me to figure it out on my own.
I didn’t realize that I was crying until Levi reached forward and wiped a tear from my cheek. His tender touch only makes it worse and I really lose it.
His arms wrapped around me again, holding me against his strong, warm chest that felt more like home than I even wanted to admit to myself. But I still couldn’t beat the feeling that I was still creating the kind of problems that I was trying to stop. That was what seemed to happen every time.
“Is that what led you to falling for Mason? Just wanting to belong somewhere?” he a
