“No, Leigh, you don’t understand.” Gael spoke with a fervor that made my knees tremble. “I never had a choice from the moment I met you. You were mine, and that was never going to change. Don’t you see? You and I are two halves of the same whole. When we’re not together, when we fight it, we’re miserable. Cats and dogs, gasoline and firecrackers. But when we’re together? When we give in to what we both know is meant to be? Well, I’ve never been happier. Have you? Can you honestly look me in the eye and tell me you’re happier apart?”
I bit my lip and looked away, because I knew I couldn’t. I’d lied to him once, telling him he wasn’t Petal’s father out of spite. It was petty and wrong, and I wasn’t going to play those games anymore. So I couldn’t now tell him I was happier without him. Of c
