Being Craig Lesnar's girlfriend ?
It sounded foreign to Merlina, she hadn't thought that far, everything she could see when she thought about them was how impossible they were.
How messy it all was. How wrong. How none of it should've ever happened. And yet, it had. How she wished she had more control over her feelings, wished she could hold herself back.
Wished she could resist him better.
Now he was sitting across from her, asking if she would be his. Officially.
She hadn't realized how quickly things had changed. All she could do was think of everything that had led them here.
The arguments. The curses. The kisses. The ghosting. The heated moments in dark corners.
All the people who got hurt along the way.
God. She hadn't even had a proper conversation with Louis. Hadn't given him the explanation he'd asked for.
Her eyes snapped down to her napkin, fingers suddenly twitchy as she tried folding it into a neater square. She didn't dare look up.
